The X social media platform has been up and down all morning, with temporary however repeated outages stopping posts from loading throughout each cell and desktop. The first widespread situation began at round 5:40AM ET this morning, in accordance with Downdetector, leaving timelines constantly unable to refresh on cell apps and a few X customers caught in an countless loading loop.
Musk:
There was (nonetheless is) a large cyberattack towards 𝕏.
We get attacked on daily basis, however this was achieved with a variety of assets. Either a big, coordinated group and/or a rustic is concerned.
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In an interview with Fox Business, Musk mentioned that “we’re unsure precisely what occurred. But there was a large cyberattack to attempt to convey down the X system with IP addresses originating within the Ukraine space.”
An error message retains showing on the internet model of X that claims “Something went mistaken. Try reloading” after trying to open or refresh a web page, and we’ve often seen Cloudflare error pages noting a Host Error connecting to X.com.
The X loading points look like impacting customers globally in accordance with NetBlocks, with studies coming in throughout different social media platforms noting the outages. Reports of outages popped up sporadically, with X often happening for a number of minutes at a time earlier than customers are capable of refresh their feeds once more.
Updates, March tenth: Added particulars from Elon Musk shared in a tweet and in a Fox Business interview.
