X, the social media app with more than 600 million users, suffered periodic malfunctions worldwide Monday. Service had restored to most users after 1 p.m. EDT, according to Downdetector.com, a website that tracks interruptions in service for sites.

Hours after a series of outages Monday that left X unavailable to thousands of users, Elon Musk claimed that the social media platform was being targeted in a “massive cyberattack.” “We get attacked every day,

Social media platform X went down intermittently on Monday, with owner Elon Musk blaming an unusually powerful cyberattack.

X, the social media app with more than 600 million users, suffered periodic outages on Monday as the result of a "massive cyberattack," Elon Musk, the owner of the private company, said.