This can easily also be because they don't have enough bandwidth to serve the normal request volume because some load balancer update or similar went wrong.
The outage doesn't fit the pattern of a bad deployment. X was down all over the world all at once. There was multiple outages and the site was browning out while it was up.
If a deployment caused it, they would roll back and not try again until they found the issue.
neuroelectron|11 months ago
If a deployment caused it, they would roll back and not try again until they found the issue.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825
Elon states it's a massive cyberattack and he suspects a nation state is behind it. [paraphrasing]