Submitted 3 weeks ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://htxt.co.za/2025/03/x-twitter-is-down-in-worldwide-outage/
- X, the former Twitter, has experienced a worldwide outage as of 12PM on Monday CAT.
- This is likely the first major outage of the company since Musk took ownership in 2022.
- The outage seems to have only lasted for about half an hour.
I’ll celebrate when no one considers this to be news.
I assume we’re in a similar boat so let me assure you: no, you won’t - because we wouldn’t even realize it happened.
Only after s few months one of us will recall this thread and be like “oh, yeah. Twitter. Seems really dead finally. Good.”
And to be clear I expect they person to be you because my memory is awful.
I still can’t believe he nuked the Twitter brand. It was like the most valuable part of the platform. X is such a dumb, generic nothing name.
It’s going to be so easy for him to turn that x into a swastika in a couple of years though. Its what’s known in tech circles as IED “iterative evil design”
Systemd now wants to do homedirs. Is that the same thing?
He is really really dumb person, so it is not surprising he does stupid stuff. Look at cybershit, tesla robot (driven by people remotely), anything he did last year… He is fucking dumb idiot.
I’m glad he did, now there is a clear line from when it was acceptable to when it wasn’t.
The USA probably won’t rebrand when its a fully fascist state.
You are really surprised by a guy who wanted to name his car series S-E-X-Y and had a temper tantrum when model E was taken and he could not “buy” it.
It just depends on which type of serifs he puts on the X.
Who the fuck is still on that nazi shithole
Nazis, I imagine.
Remember kids, only nazis support nazis.
And bots
Even the porn creators and erotic artists have left.
When you’ve lost the porn it’s game over man.
Since you seem to know what platform have they moved to generally?
The Tumblr Effect
My government emergency alerts :(
I actually emailed my local National Weather Service station awhile back asking if they’d post on Mastodon and even offered them a BlueSky invite and they wrote back saying only Twitter and Facebook were allowed and they’d be everywhere if it was approved by higher ups.
Someone made a BlueSky bot a few months ago for NWS notices and I’m pretty sure they covered every local one. I remember the person who made it asking people to request any missing stations. Not sure if there’s a Mastodon equivalent but you could use a bridge. It won’t help with transit delays or other local government announcements but the weather service stuff is available (via an AtProto <-> ActivityPub bridge if nothing else; it’s not like you interact with the posts so it’d be ideal for a bridge).
Make a bot that listens to those and posts them here.
Nazi’s
If we’re lucky it’s forever.
Says it was only 30 minutes in the description. Kinds weird they’re telling us about it and not including thst bit in the title.
They’re busy, collapse the data center support columns.
In unrelated news, hate is down across the world.
That place is just flabbergasting nowadays. Click almost anywhere and you’re greeted with colorful descriptions of jews and any other kind of bat shit overt comicbook bad guy levelf of absurd racism. Anywhere. What is it’s utillity even?
Remember when Russia had all those cyber attacks and suddenly, a huge chunk of Reddit stopped spewing hate?
And nothing was lost.
Everyone strives for 5 9s, but musk aims for two 8s.
I see what you did there…
We don’t have 5 9s, but we do have 9 5s.
I don’t get it
I don’t know the 5 9s reference, but the two 8s is 88, a Nazi dog whistle for Heil Hitler, as H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.
Let’s gooooo. Take that garbage site out
You know what used to be great at handling DDOS attacks? Twitter.
Everyone knows that the best way to address DDOS is to unplug random servers until things either stop working, or start working again.
Don’t you unplug it and plug it back in again?
God I hope there’s some engineer somewhere at X quietly sabotaging all of their services.
Should plant a timed zip bomb on the servers that autoruns on reboot
Plug that random USB stick you found on the sidewalk directly into the server and open up Link_ParkFullAlbum-LimeWire.exe
Now this is the kind of X news I’m okay with reading.
Although I can only imagine what this means for the US since Musk is treating the government like one of his businesses.
Oh no. So anyway, we’re having a stereotypical American meal that takes 25 minutes off your life tonight: Sloppy joes, macaroni and cheese, and potato salad. It’s quite good, everything made from scratch since I don’t have a job anymore. How about you?
Im going to have a meal of a block of cheddar cheese with melted cheese on top, with grated permesan sprinkled on top, basted with a 5lb tub of butter.
Murica
That’s not really an authentic American meal unless you deep fry it in HFCS.
You might consider adding a couple eggs to that. Since you can afford “permasan” and butter, I feel like it’s possible you might even be able to afford the eggs without having to take out a small personal loan.
This sounds as delicious as 64 slices of American cheese.
We had a nice Thai curry here (and no, I don’t live on Thailand)
- This is likely the first major outage of the company since Musk took ownership in 2022.
Didn’t Twitter go down multiple times for similar periods of time not long after Musk fired everybody? Or am I just hallucinating wishful thinking.
Yeah I seem to remember quite a few “oh so that’s what that wire does” situations that unfolded already.
Do we know if that was real or if the media was just exaggerating things
I dunno about going down entirely, but bits and pieces (like SMS verification) definitely broke while they were undoing work and cutting “expenses” (like office leases)
But wait, isn’t this some sort of official government communication channel now? Sure there must be uptime agreements and penalties for such a thing, right? Right?!?
I wouldn’t notice
Oh no!
Anyway…
And nothing of value was lost.
Good. Sadly it was fixed.
Reddit was like this, even way before the enshittification.
It happened so often on Reddit, it wasn’t even news.
“Something went wrong. Try Mastodon.”
What can we do to keep it like this forever?
Just imagine what this saves in server bills
Or saving on hosting is what caused the outage.
“Save 100% with this simple trick!”
This was bound to happen, someone was going to attack the Nazi propaganda platform formerly known as Twitter at some point.
Can we get a permanent outage of that goddamned website, pretty please? For the sake of humanity?
There have been so many instances where i wanna see replies of a post or more stuff about a person, but then that mandatory account log in wall kicks in.
Add “cancel” after the X in the url for workaround access. Like any other workaround, this will only work until it doesn’t anymore
Looks like annonomus is saying they took it down.
Wonderful! May it stay that way forever.
It would be poetic if the cyber attacks would be coming from Ukrainian hackers.
I hadn’t noticed.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The world had peace for 30 minutes.
ch00f@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No. You see Twitter was keeping them contained. This is like the power going out at Jurassic Park.
DogEarBookmark@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Arkham Asylum grid failure