For much of Monday — only the busiest offseason day for NFL transactions — Twitter was down. It’s back up. For now.
So what happened?
Via Todd Spangler of Variety.com, Twitter owner Elon Musk said this, during a moment when the social-media platform was operational: “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …”
If it was foul play, it worked. Twitter was knocked for a loop. On the worst day possible for folks seeking (and attempting to post) NFL news.
We’ve been posting all content on Bluesky, just in case. Also, the “Free Agency” tab on the front page has a collection of all stories regarding deals, potential deals, and (at least in one case) deals that were never deals.
