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XFaces Two Major Outages in a Single Day, Affecting Tens of Thousands of Users

The platform, owned by Elon Musk, remains silent on the cause of the disruptions as skepticism grows over previous cyberattack claims.

Social media platform X faced a brief outage targeting its US users on Friday
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Overview

  • X experienced two separate outages on March 28, 2025, with the second incident affecting over 56,000 users globally.
  • The majority of users reported issues accessing the app, while others faced problems with the website and server connections.
  • Elon Musk and X have not provided any official explanation for the latest disruptions, continuing a pattern of limited communication.
  • Musk previously attributed earlier outages to cyberattacks allegedly linked to Ukraine, but cybersecurity experts have questioned these claims.
  • Experts suggest the outages could involve technical vulnerabilities or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, but no definitive cause has been identified.