After an hours-long period of outages, Elon Musk took to X to explain why his social media network experienced widespread technical problems.

Elon Musk has now commented and claimed that "there was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X", which was "done with a lot of resources". So that would explain why X is continuing to have major issues over eight hours on from when they started. There was another spike in reported outages shortly after this, representing the fourth of the day.

U.S. officials have not determined who was behind an apparent cyberattack on the social media site X that limited access to the platform for thousands of users