After DownDetector reported that tens of 1000’s of customers globally skilled repeated X (previously Twitter) outages, Elon Musk confirmed the problems are as a consequence of an ongoing cyberattack on the platform.
“There was (nonetheless is) an enormous cyberattack in opposition to X,” Musk wrote on X. “We get attacked day-after-day, however this was performed with numerous assets. Both a big, coordinated group and/or a rustic is concerned.”
Particulars stay obscure past Musk’s put up, however rumors had been circulating that X was underneath a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) assault.
X’s official help channel, which has been dormant since August, has to this point remained silent on the outage, however one consumer requested Grok—X’s chatbot that gives AI summaries of stories—what was happening, and the chatbot echoed suspicions concerning the DDOS assault whereas elevating different theories.
“Over 40,000 customers reported points, with the platform struggling to load globally,” Grok said. “No clear motive but, however some speculate it’s political since X is the one goal. Outages hit exhausting within the US, Switzerland, and past.”
As X goes down, customers cry for Twitter
It has been nearly two years since Elon Musk declared that Twitter “no longer exists,” haphazardly speeding to rebrand his social media firm as X regardless of critics warning that customers would not simply abandon the Twitter model.
Quick-forward to as we speak, and Musk obtained a reminder that his efforts to kill off the Twitter model by no means actually caught on with a big chunk of his platform.