Elon Musk's X down for users
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Elon Musk's X down for users
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Re: Elon Musk's X down for users
#2Looking at DownDetector, I suspect a CloudFlare outage as there's some ominous climbing red lines for multiple services.
Currently it looks to me like X, Grok, CloudFlare and AWS are affected.
Re: Elon Musk's X down for users
#3Looking at DownDetector, I suspect a CloudFlare outage as there's some ominous climbing red lines for multiple services. Currently it looks to me like X, Grok, CloudFlare and AWS are affected.
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Re: Elon Musk's X down for users
#4Looking at DownDetector, I suspect a CloudFlare outage as there's some ominous climbing red lines for multiple services. Currently it looks to me like X, Grok, CloudFlare and AWS are affected.
DownDetector gives you a graph of the number of people who googled "is XYZ service down" and clicked on a DownDetector link. It's a useful metric, but it also has error, because sometimes users blame the wrong service.
In this case, both AWS and Cloudflare had high-profile outages within the past few months. So a bunch of people tried to check their Twitter, got an error, and said "huh, I wonder if AWS is down again". Or during yesterday's Verizon outage, DownDetector also showed spikes on AT&T and T-Mobile, presumably from people who forgot what cellular provider they had, were roaming, or maybe were trying to call someone on another network.
It also doesn't help that they normalize the scale of their graphs on the front page. If you click them, you can see that 75k people googled "is X down", while only 200 people googled "is AWS down".
Re: Elon Musk's X down for users
#5Looking at DownDetector, I suspect a CloudFlare outage as there's some ominous climbing red lines for multiple services. Currently it looks to me like X, Grok, CloudFlare and AWS are affected.
DownDetector gives you a graph of the number of people who googled "is XYZ service down" and clicked on a DownDetector link. It's a useful metric, but it also has error, because sometimes users blame the wrong service. In this case, both AWS and Cloudflare had high-profile outages within the past few months. So a bunch of people tried to check their Twitter, got an error, and said "huh, I wonder if AWS is down again"…
I didn't realise that - thanks for the info. I actually found out just from a breaking news alert on the BBC which is unusual as I usually see tech news elsewhere first.
Re: Elon Musk's X down for users
#6Can we prepend the owner of every company moving forward?
Re: Elon Musk's X down for users
#7Can we prepend the owner of every company moving forward?
I think you forgot the /s tag (especially since it is an editorialization by the BBC, not the HN submitor). But yeah, the author probably has a motive for doing that.
Re: Elon Musk's X down for users
#8Can we prepend the owner of every company moving forward?
That would be good for companies that replaced a well known brand name with a single letter.
Re: Elon Musk's X down for users
#9I don't publish anymore in X, so I don't mind it. And by the number of points, I can see it is pretty obvious no one cares anymore. The owner is giving a great lesson on how to destroy a social network, while alienating the remaining users.
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#10"Well we brought it back up, but for some reason it's full of racist vitriol and CSAM now."
"Oh, no, it was like that before."