this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025

1160 points (98.8% liked)

Technology

65879 readers

4031 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

L3s@lemmy.world

enu@lemmy.world

technopagan@lemmy.world

L4s@lemmy.world

1160

X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. (htxt.co.za)

submitted 1 day ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

174 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 45 points 1 day ago

Someone did the world a favor.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fascists value compliance and ideological fervor over competency, so naturally all fascist led faction experience a competency crisis sooner or later.May this happen more often.

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

The data at downforeveryoneorjustme make it appear that "only lasted for about half an hour" is BS. In fact, they appear to be having problems again this morning.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 322 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The world had peace for 30 minutes.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 122 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No. You see Twitter was keeping them contained. This is like the power going out at Jurassic Park.

[–] DogEarBookmark@reddthat.com 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Arkham Asylum grid failure

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Looks like Elon was chewing on the wires again

[–] Cephiroth@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

insert ‘oh no, anyway’ meme here

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

As you wish.

I came here looking for it, so I may as well follow through on the prompt.

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 210 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 day 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.

[–] soupy_kid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Couldn't happen to Mastodon.

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 76 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

In unrelated news, hate is reduced across the world.

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let's gooooo. Take that garbage site out

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 113 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Who the fuck is still on that nazi shithole

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 84 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nazis, I imagine.

[–] gigglybastard@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Remember kids, only nazis support nazis.

load more comments (3 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org 40 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Even the porn creators and erotic artists have left.

When you've lost the porn it's game over man.

load more comments (6 replies)

load more comments (9 replies)

[–] robbinhood@lemmy.world 148 points 1 day ago (13 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.

[–] SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day 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.

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (12 replies)

[–] gyll@lemmy.world 103 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If we’re lucky it’s forever.

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, that's why xcancel was returning 502

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

nitter.net is back, by the way.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago

Nothing of value was lost.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Elon's blaming DDOS. You know I heard that the people who bulit Twitter did a great job figuring out how to handle those. Gosh, I wonder what ever happened them?

[–] T156@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Everyone knows that the best way to address DDOS is to unplug random servers until things either stop working, or start working again.

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] roserose56@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago

Let it burn! It's not our problem.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 children)

Oh no. So anyway, tonight we're having a stereotypical American meal that takes 25 minutes off your life; 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?

load more comments (17 replies)

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks like yippidy dipshit is on a great losing streak, space x, the recession, now this.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

And tesla stock going into the gutter.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its been down at my house for a while now.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

It was never up in this house.

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This was bound to happen, someone was going to attack the Nazi propaganda platform formerly known as Twitter at some point.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be too quick to rule out mismanagement from an incompetent owner.

[–] JakJak98@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember that america is now run by said incompetence with illegal firings and mass slash and burn tactics to raze the entire establishment

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 45 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Everyone strives for 5 9s, but musk aims for two 8s.

load more comments (7 replies)

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

load more comments (5 replies)

[–] npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Half an hour is still pretty huge for a site like Xitter.

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Half an hour is “we just broke our SLA” level bad. I guess if your org has been stripped of all its talent that’s the new standard.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Weird that they said "only" half an hour. Thats a really long time

[–] thickertoofan@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

Good riddance

[–] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago

Do it again!

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

DDoS attacks are illegal, but what is the legal amount of times a person can call a website? I'm sure enough people doing just a few calls per second couldn't get a person into too much trouble. Has the law even defined the difference?

load more comments (7 replies)

[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I had a cheeseburger for dinner. It was….. okay.

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] TheGreatSnacku@lemm.ee 45 points 1 day ago

And nothing was lost.

load more comments