Elon Musk claims of 'massive cyberattack' as X faces multiple outage in a day

Social media giant X (formerly Twitter) suffered its third major outage within a day, with over 40,000 reports of service disruptions recorded as of March 10, 2025. The issue affected users across the US, India, the UK, Australia, and Canada, preventing them from accessing the platform on both web and mobile apps.

According to Downdetector.com, which tracks online service disruptions, complaints about the



outage spiked at 6:00 AM Eastern Time (EST) and again at 10:00 AM EST, with more than 40,000 users reporting access issues.

A prolonged outage occurred at 12:00 PM EST, lasting at least an hour. The heaviest disruptions were reported along the U.S. coasts, with 56 per cent of users facing issues on the X mobile app, 33 per cent on the website, and the remaining 11 per cent encountering server connection errors.