Instagram is reported to be down for hundreds of users who have taken to alternative social media platforms such as X to complain about the issues they are experiencing

Social media platform X is down for thousands of users in the U.S. and the UK, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 21,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the platform in the U.

Elon Musk's X was hit by waves of outages earlier Monday, which the billionaire claims was due to a cyberattack with IP addresses originating in Ukraine.

X, the social media app with more than 600 million users, suffered periodic outages on Monday as the result of a "massive cyberattack," Elon Musk, the owner of the private company, said.