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  • 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.
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[–] [email protected] 160 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'll celebrate when no one considers this to be news.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

What can we do to keep it like this forever?

[–] [email protected] 111 points 6 hours ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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"

[–] corsicanguppy 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Systemd now wants to do homedirs. Is that the same thing?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Well, now you can tweet wherever you like and don't have to invent a silly new verb for every new platform.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I like referring to it as xitter, pronounced "shitter". What were once tweets are now steaming piles of xit. Or someone taking/dropping a xit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] klu9 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully the next rebrand will be from X to rm -rf /.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

It just depends on which type of serifs he puts on the X.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

I love that for them

[–] reidand 4 points 3 hours ago

Make it permanent next time.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 hours ago

And nothing was lost.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Oh no.

Anyway…

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 hours ago

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, so that was it?

I just thought my Twitter Piko app was outdated 😅

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 hours ago

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?!?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

I hadn't noticed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago

I wouldn't notice

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago

Good. Sadly it was fixed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Is tempting to check if it's still down. But wom't touch this ugly domain.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 hours ago

Oh no!

Anyway...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Looks like annonomus is saying they took it down.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

And the owner wants to "automate" the US government with AI.

The idiots are in charge.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

The US are truly turning into a real-life version of "Idiocracy". I'm just waiting for Trump's orders to start watering crops with Gatorade

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Elon fired the maintenance guys yet again?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Them people are just paid to sit around. Why would you bother?

Source; work in maintenance.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Just imagine what this saves in hosting bills

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

“Save 100% with this simple trick!”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

Or saving on hosting is what caused the outage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Elon must be experiencing withdrawal symptoms right about now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Feature, not a bug

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago
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