The X social media platform has been up and down all morning, with temporary however repeated outages stopping posts from loading throughout each cellular and desktop. The primary widespread problem began at round 5:40AM ET this morning, according to Downdetector, leaving timelines persistently unable to refresh on cellular apps and a few X customers caught in an infinite loading loop.
Musk:
There was (nonetheless is) a large cyberattack in opposition to đ.
We get attacked day by day, however this was carried out with plenty of sources. Both a big, coordinated group and/or a rustic is concerned.
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In an interview with Fox Business, Musk stated that âweâre unsure precisely what occurred. However there was a large cyberattack to attempt to convey down the X system with IP addresses originating within the Ukraine space.â
An error message retains showing on the internet model of X that claims âOne thing went fallacious. Strive reloadingâ after trying to open or refresh a web page, and weâve sometimes seen Cloudflare error pages noting a Host Error connecting to X.com.
The X loading points seem like impacting customers globally according to NetBlocks, with studies coming in throughout different social media platforms noting the outages. Experiences of outages popped up sporadically, with X normally taking place for a number of minutes at a time earlier than customers are in a position to refresh their feeds once more.
Updates, March tenth: Added particulars from Elon Musk shared in a tweet and in a Fox Enterprise interview.