(NewsNation) — X owner Elon Musk has said the multiple outages experienced by X users Monday were the result of a cyberattack.
Musk hypothesized on his platform that “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country” was responsible.
He added X was investigating further.
“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. 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. Tracing,” Musk wrote.
Many X users experienced as many as three outages throughout Monday.
Some users reported an outage of the platform, formerly known as Twitter, around 6:30 a.m. ET, the number of reports skyrocketing to thousands within 20 minutes, according to downdetector.com.
That outage subsided shortly after, but as of 10 a.m. ET, the site was having trouble loading again.
During that service interruption, X web users encountered a message reading, “Something went wrong. Try reloading.” A button to retry also appeared, prompting a spinning blue circle that reverted to the same message after a few seconds. Users reported similar problems with the app version of X.
Issue reports on Downdetector spiked to more than 40,000 during that interruption. Shortly before 10:30 a.m. ET, however, X appeared to be back to normal, with user issue reports on Downdetector starting to decline.
At 11:20 a.m., the site appeared to be down again. However, the web version of X was accessible again by around 1:30 p.m. ET, while user-reported issues on Downdetector have been declining since around 12:45 p.m.
Nexstar’s Addy Bink also contributed to this story.