BEINSMARTSIDE Tech Is X down? Users report issues with app and website

Is X down? Users report issues with app and website

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The app and website appear to have issues (Picture: SOPA)

Thousands of X users have reported outages with the popular social media app.

Just after 6.30 pm, a spate of users logged issues on Down Detector, with many saying the app wasn’t loading at all.

As of 7:00 pm, more than 12,000 reports have been logged.

Metro contacted X for comment.

Today’s outage comes after earlier this month, the website went offline and prompted billionaire owner Elon Musk to blame a ‘massive cyber attack’ on Ukraine – with no backing.

‘We get attacked every day’, Musk said at the time. ‘But this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …’

A cybersecurity expert has warned it was ‘dangerous’ to point the finger at Ukraine.

Jake Moore, global cybersecurity adviser at software security firm Eset, told PA he is ‘confident’ it was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which involves multiple IP addresses flooding a server or website with internet traffic.

Mr Moore added that a ‘simple analysis’ of the IP addresses would point towards their location, but that this can be ‘tampered with’ to make it seem that the origin is in a different country.

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