Is Twitter/X Down • Hacker News Board

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

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Post by Hamuko » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:30 AM UTC

Is anyone tracking the number of downtimes / partial outages (like all outgoing links getting broken) ever since Elon decided to fire most of the staff? Very curious to see if there's actually been a noticeable uptick.

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

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Post by Pat_Murph » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:31 AM UTC

With any luck it's permanent

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

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Post by justinzollars » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:31 AM UTC

riffic wrote: post #16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network... soon.

When I was a kid (Nat Nanny)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Nanny] was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up to adore content moderation. A strange authoritarian impulse.

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

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Post by Racing0461 » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:32 AM UTC

vzaliva wrote: post #27

It might seem obvious, but I'd like to highlight that this illustrates another benefit of a distributed system like Mastodon. Even if one of the Mastodon servers goes down, the others will continue to function.

The value in twitter/youtube/IG/twitch etc is in the current social network/users, not the tech. That's why its insanely hard to create new social networks.

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

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Post by superkuh » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:32 AM UTC

jonathankoren wrote: post #15

minimaxir wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd hate to see what Elon would choose as a fail whale equivalent.

Alas, it is a photo of a dog. Or at least it was on its last outage a few months ago.

Just like Amazon.

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

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Post by justinzollars » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:32 AM UTC

kernal wrote: post #20

riffic wrote: post #16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network... soon.

You can add Threads right now under the category of dead.

The three (very very bitter) Threads users are downvoting you.

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

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Post by u320 » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:34 AM UTC

The timing couldn't be worse. Threads just launched in EU so the site has seen a big boost in activity.

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

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Post by bernardlunn » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:35 AM UTC

I deleted X to break this habit and cos it is becoming an Elon Musk vanity project so don’t care if it’s down

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

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Post by firekvz » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:35 AM UTC

riffic wrote: post #16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network... soon.

club penguin not on this list, RIP

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

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Post by BrokenGizmo » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:35 AM UTC

Remember Digg v4?