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(NEXSTAR) — Amid intermittent outages to X connected Monday, proprietor Elon Musk says the societal media level was deed by "a monolithic cyberattack" that "still is" occurring.
"We get attacked each day, but this was done with a batch of resources," Musk wrote connected X soon earlier 1:30 p.m. ET. "Either a large, coordinated radical and/or a state is involved."
The issues appeared to commencement aboriginal Monday morning, with 2 consequent outages reported by users.
Downdetector data shows astir 22,000 user-reported issues with X astir 6 a.m. ET. Outage reports rapidly dropped off, earlier spiking again astatine astir 10 a.m. ET.
During that work interruption, X web users encountered a connection reading, "Something went wrong. Try reloading." A fastener to retry besides appeared, prompting a spinning bluish ellipse that reverted to the aforesaid connection aft a fewer seconds. Users reported akin problems with the app mentation of X.
Issue reports connected Downdetector spiked to much than 40,000 during that interruption. Shortly earlier 10:30 a.m. ET, however, X appeared to beryllium backmost to mean with idiosyncratic contented reports connected Downdetector starting to decline.
The web mentation of X was accessible again by astir 1:30 p.m. ET, portion user-reported issues connected Downdetector person been declining since astir 12:45 p.m.
