Monday blues hit X as the platform goes down multiple times
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- Issue appears to be resolved
Are you unable to access X (Twitter) to get your morning dose of news, memes, and hot takes? You’re not alone.
The microblogging platform is currently undergoing a global outage, with reports from DownDetector suggesting it to be the second of the day.
The platform seemingly went down on the morning of Monday, March 10, at roughly 5:30 a.m. ET, only for it to go down again four hours later, impacting both its web and mobile applications.
As of right now, some users are unable to access the platform at all, while others are reporting significant delays in loading content.
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Rumors suggesting that the platform is under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack seem to be true, as confirmed by platform owner Elon Musk. However, the attack’s origins are still unknown.
“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,” wrote Musk. As of right now — Monday, March 10 at 1:30pm ET, the platform is still struggling to stay live.
UPDATE: 2025/03/10 17:31 EST BY DALLAS THOMAS
Issue appears to be resolved
There was a third spike in outage reports at about 11:00 a.m. ET, with this one lasting much longer than the first two. However, by roughly 3:00 p.m. ET, reports of problems with Twitter/X appear to have regressed to the mean, hovering relatively close to the baseline until we last checked at 5:30 p.m. ET. Neither X nor Musk has issued a statement proclaiming the outage to be officially over, but we will update this page if there are any new developments.
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