X — which you might know better as Twitter — is experiencing intermittent outages this Monday.
The social platform’s uptime challenges aren’t just restricted to North America, either. Users are reporting that the platform has failed to work across the globe, with users in the UK, France, and India saying that they can’t access the short-form blogging platform.
It’s not a complete disaster, though: Outages are only lasting a few minutes at a time, so if you can just wait a little while, you can get right back to doom-scrolling.
What to Know About the X Outages
You can follow the most current reports of X outages on the website monitoring service Down Detector.
At the time of writing, over 20,000 outages globally continues to be reported late Monday morning, following a spike of over 38,000 simultanous reports several hours earlier.
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Down Detector also breaks the outages down by type. According to their data, 58% of outages are related to the X app, while 31% are related to the platform’s website, and another 11% are related to “server connection.” These statistics will likely fluctuate as reports continue to roll in.
Elon Musk Says It Is a “Massive Cyberattack”
Elon Musk took to X to address the outages. According to the X chairman, who acquired the platform in October 2022, X is currently suffering from a cyberattack that was “done with a lot of resources.”
“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏. 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 …” – X Chairman Elon Musk
For context, it’s worth noting that Elon Musk has a long history of mistruths that has prompted entire timelines detailing his relationship with online misinformation.
Still, there’s no denying that Musk’s recent political exploits have made him unpopular with most Americans. According to Pew Research Center, just over half of U.S. adults (54%) said they have an unfavorable view of Musk in a January 2025 poll.
The X Factor
According to a fact-checked SOAX research report, the X platform had 335.7 million monthly active users in 2024, which was a 5.14% drop from the previous year. The highest number of monthly active users, 368.4 million, was in 2022, the same year in which Elon Musk acquired the platform.
This conflicts with other reports: In April 2024, Exploding Topics reported that X had about 611 million monthly active users.
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