"We’re not sure exactly what happened. But there was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the X system, with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area," said the platform owner and advisor to the U.

CEO Elon Musk claimed, in an X post, that this was the result of a cyberattack against X. “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 …,” the post read.