X faces third outage in a day as thousands of users report issues; Musk claims 'massive cyber attack'

Elon Musk-owned social media platform X shut down yet again on Monday evening as over nearly 4,000 users reported the outages throughout the day. While the first outage was noted by over 2,000 users, the second saw nearly 1,500 reports, and the third recorded around 200 reports in its inital stage.

Hours after the outages, the Elon Musk-led company said that the platform underwent a massive cyber attack.

"There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against ��. We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved," Musk wrote in a post.


According to Downdetector, a little over a hundred users reported facing trouble with the platform at around 6.28 pm IST during the second crash. The number quickly rose to 1,000 and then 1,268 within 20 minutes as more complaints poured into the website regarding the disruptions. At around 7.28 pm, the Downdetector spike showed a total of 1,465 reports.

After one and a half hour of being offline, the platform became available to users again at around 7.56 pm. However, after briefly being restored, the site again crashed for a third time around 8.30 pm when several users noted issues accessing it. By 9.02pm, the number stood at 930 reports, while it crossed hit 1,066 at 9.22 pm.

Earlier in the day, several users of the platform reported global disruptions with both the website and app. Downdetector recorded a massive spike in complaints around 3:10 pm IST.

After nearly 30 minutes of downtime, users were able to access the site again.

The platform's app and website were both affected, with 56% of problems related to the app and 33% to the website.

While X hasn't faced similar problems recently, other platforms like Instagram and Facebook have experienced outages.

According to a Reuters report citing Downdetector, over 21,000 incidents were reported in the US, while the UK saw more than 10,800 reported disruptions.