Update: Elon Musk said late Monday morning that the mass X outages blocked access to the social media platform earlier in the day was the result of a “massive” cyberattack involving “a lot of resources.”
“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” the X chairman revealed. “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 then promised that he and his team are “tracing” the origin of the attack.
There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 10, 2025
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 … https://t.co/aZSO1a92no
This is a developing story.
Original story, 7:57 a.m.: X was hit by widespread outages on Monday morning, making it so many users of Elon Musk’s social media platform could not post nor see new posts on the app formerly known as Twitter. However, the app was back up and running for TheWrap as of 10:45 a.m. ET.
The first major outage was reported on Downdetector.com, a site that tracks when platforms are knocked offline, at around 6:30 a.m. ET on Monday. After a bit of a respite, another jump in users reporting X was down was shown on the site at around 9:40 a.m. ET, when more than 40,000 people reported the app was not working for them.
Most of the outages were being reported from users along the East Coast, in New York and Boston, and on the West Coast in Los Angeles.
A representative for X did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
X is often the place where users go to complain about apps like Instagram being down, when it happens. Instead, some Twitter users are now posting in Downdetector’s IG comments section about the inverse, although most are simply pointing out what location they are in.
“Yes X is down, but why are you checking so desperately? Go touch grass. Upvote if you agree sun is healthy for you,” one commenter said.
Compounding issues for Musk on Monday, Tesla, his electric car company, continued to see its share price take a beating on Wall Street. Tesla shares were down 8% an hour into trading on Monday — extending a recent sell-off that has seen the company’s stock price drop 31% in the past month. After opening the year trading for about $380 per share, Tesla shares are trading for $241 on Monday morning.
