Elon Musk has acknowledged the Twitter outage. The owner of Twitter (or X as is now known as) confirmed that the social media platform is experiencing issues across the globe. Twitter has been Down, Up and again Down several times during the day. Commenting on the outage, Elon Musk said that Twitter is facing a massive cyberattack and that they are trying to trace the hackers.
“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 …,” wrote Elon Musk in a post on Twitter.
He quoted a post from DogeDesigner, that said, “First, protests against DOGE. Then, Tesla stores were attacked. Now, 𝕏 is down. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that this downtime is the result of an attack on 𝕏.”
Elon Musk said ‘Yes’ to post from UAE’s Hassan Sajwani, who wrote, “They want to silence you and this platform.”
DDoS attack: The likely cause of Twitter outage
According to a report by news agency Reuters, quoting a source in the internet infrastructure industry, X had been hit by several waves of Denial of Service attack (DDoS) beginning around 9:45 UTC. The source reportedly spoke on the condition of anonymity. X was facing intermittent outages according to Downdetector, restricting 11,745 users in the U.S. from accessing the platform, as of 1.46 pm ET. The number of outage reports rose to around 26,579 after falling briefly, user-submitted data on the outage-tracking website showed. The number was as high as 40,000 at one point in time.
A DDoS attack (Distributed Denial-of-Service attack) is a type of cyberattack where multiple compromised computers or devices — often part of a “botnet” — overwhelm a target server, website, or network with a flood of traffic. The goal is to overload the system so it becomes slow, unresponsive, or completely unavailable to legitimate users. Such attacks are not necessarily sophisticated but they can cause significant disruption.
(Developing)
