It’s not just you. X is down (or, Twitter is down, if you prefer). X experienced multiple outages on March 10, with thousands of users all over the globe reporting problems. Elon Musk has said the social platform suffered “a massive cyberattack”.
And as the sun rises on March 11, we’re seeing a small increase in reports suggesting X may continue to be having issues, but nothing on the scale we witnessed on Monday.
The first huge spike of users reporting ‘X is down’ was on March 10 at 2.30am PDT / 5.30am EDT, and while the service appeared to be back online, reports skyrocketed once again at 6.30am PDT / 9.30am EDT. Just when we thought everything was settling back down, further issues caused the longest period of disruption between 8.15am PDT / 11.15am EDT and 10.15am PDT / 1.15pm EDT.
Users are experiencing issues with both the X website and the X app. Some users are reporting the service is downright inaccessible; others complain about slow loading times.
X outage: what’s happened so far?
- 2.30am PDT / 5.30am EDT: First reports of X being down surface
- 3.30am PDT / 6.30am EDT: X back for most users
- 6.30am PDT / 9.30am EDT: A second wave of reports and X is down again
- 8.15am PDT / 11.15am EDT: A third wave of reports say X is down once again
- 10.15am PDT / 1.15pm EDT: X recovers for many users
- 11.30am PDT / 2.15pm EDT: X is working for some, but many people are still reporting problems
- 12.25pm PDT / 3.25pm EDT: X (Twitter) recovers for most people
