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Elon Musk’s social media platform X, which used to be called Twitter, faced major disruptions on Monday morning.
These outages affected numerous users in the US and UK.
The problems were highlighted when Downdetector, a website that tracks online issues, received tens of thousands of reports from US users experiencing technical difficulties with the platform.
In the UK, more than 8,000 users reported problems just before 2 PM GMT. Earlier that morning, there was a sudden increase in user complaints.
For some people, the connection issues lasted into the afternoon.
During these outages, many users trying to access the platform or refresh their feeds on both the app and desktop site saw only a loading icon.
Earlier, he posted on X that “either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved”.
The BBC has approached the Ukrainian embassy in Washington DC, for comment.
“We’re not sure exactly what happened but there was a massive cyber-attack to try and bring down the X system with [Internet Protocol] addresses originating in the Ukraine area,” Musk said in an interview with the Fox Business channel.
“What we’ve been seeing is consistent with what we’ve seen in past denial of service attacks, rather than a configuration or coding error in the platform,” he told the BBC.
He said the organisation has seen several major outages spanning more than six hours on Monday, “each having global impact”.
“This is amongst the longest X/Twitter outages we’ve tracked in terms of duration, and the pattern is consistent with a denial of service attack targeting X’s infrastructure at scale,” he added.
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