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Re: Twitter Down?

#11

Post by wmil » Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 3:51 PM UTC

vyrotek wrote: post #8

Still down for me. Cloudflare 522 Connection timed out.

I'm getting 503 errors.

Re: Twitter Down?

#12

Post by StanAngeloff » Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 3:58 PM UTC

Is it X or another Cloudflare outage, though... Let's wait till this plays out - I'm personally struggling to open quite a few websites I regularly visit right now. Until recently, I wouldn't have thought Cloudflare could be the culprit, however since their most recent outage their reputation has been less than stellar.

Re: Twitter Down?

#13

Post by nixass » Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 4:01 PM UTC

Good

Re: Twitter Down?

#14

Post by nickpinkston » Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 5:05 PM UTC

Wow... Twitter being down today must mean the economy is losing billions of $ in lost procrastination.

Re: Twitter Down?

#15

Post by mekdoonggi » Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

nickpinkston wrote: post #14

Wow... Twitter being down today must mean the economy is losing billions of $ in lost procrastination.

With the amount of bots, datacenter power, and procrastination, is it possible that an X outage has a net positive impact on the economy in the billions?

Re: Twitter Down?

#16

Post by ytpete » Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 5:38 PM UTC

Another thread here also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647307