On Monday, X suffered four major disruptions, leaving users fuming and flooding Downdetector with reports, primarily from the US East Coast and California.

Musk, never one to pass up a dramatic moment, took to his glitch-ridden platform to claim the outages were a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

“This was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved,” he declared—though, as per usual, without offering a shred of evidence.

He implied that the Ukrainians conducted the hack, who took time from their schedule of fighting their cyber war against the Russians to stop Americans seeing videos about cats or posting snaps of their dinner.

Musk’s claim looked even weaker when the hacktivist group "Dark Storm Team," which gleefully took credit for the Telegram attack, taunted Musk with a message asking if he "liked our visit."

The group is pro-Palestinian and has Russian ties. It has previously worked alongside notorious DDoS crews like Killnet and Anonymous Sudan, recently dismantled after launching a staggering number of cloud-based attacks. 

While Musk paints this as a political attempt to silence him, cybersecurity experts note that his management style has left the platform an easy target.

Since his $44 billion impulse buy in 2022, Musk has gutted Twitter’s workforce, sacking thousands, including critical security staff. His hands-on approach to cost-cutting has been equally reckless—he famously yanked server racks out of a Sacramento data centre in December 2022, an event that led to a crash just days later. 

Since then, X’s technical problems have only snowballed, from botched live streams with political figures to increasingly frequent outages.