India, March 11 -- Three distinct outages appeared to strike Elon Musk's X social media platform on Monday, as he stated it was experiencing a "massive cyberattack."

Downdetector.com initially logged thousands of complaints from users about being unable to access or use the site at around 5:30 a.m. ET. It took nearly an hour before those complaints subsided.

Then, at about 9:30 a.m., the problems seemed to erupt once more, with as many as 40,000 reports of outages recorded. Again, it took roughly an hour for the disruption to subside. Following a few hours of intermittent outages on Monday, Elon Musk took to X to explain why his social media platform was experiencing widespread technical issues.

. "We get attacked daily, but this was e...