X is down again – here's everything we know about Twitter's third outage of the day

The social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has been having a very bad Monday so far, with users reporting its third outage of the day – and it might not be the last.

The first spike in reported problems on Downdetector happened at 10am ET, with X users in both the US and UK unable to get their usual fix of memes and outrage in the app or website.

While that outage was quickly resolved, X has gone down a further two times – with the latest one approaching an earlier peak at 2pm. So to quote X's own tagline "what's happening"?

Here's all the latest news on the X downfall and when we can expect normal service (if that's ever possible on the reincarnated Twitter) to resume...

The latest news

• X (formerly Twitter) is down for the third time today
• The latest outage started at around 10.50am ET / 2.50pm GMT
• It's affecting both the app and site, with a DDOS attack rumored

When did this latest X outage start?

This is very much a global X / Twitter outage, with reports of problems climbing fast in the US and UK from around 10.50am ET / 2.50pm GMT on the site Downdetector.

They've just hit a peak of 30,000 reports in the US, which is a massive outage. In the UK, reports have fallen in the past hour, but are still hovering at the 4,700 mark.

So, what's causing the problems? While there's been nothing official, some cybersecurity commentators suggest it may be a so-called DDOS (or Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks, where a flood of internet traffic overwhelms a server.

In other words, buckle up – because this could last a while...