Elon Musk says widespread X outages are due to a cyberattack against platform

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk said Monday that the reported outages on the social media platform are a result of a cyberattack.

"There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏," he wrote in a post.
"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.

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Tens-of-thousands of X users in the U.S. reported outages Monday morning on X, with an estimated 106 million users in the U.S. 

This first outage started at 5:59 a.m. ET, with over 22,000 users reporting they could not access the social media app, according to the USA Today outlet.

As of midday on the East Coast the short-form, text-centric app still appeared to be down.