X Is Down

pre-acquisition there were frequent Twitter outages. I remember one particular lengthy outage during my brief tenure as a moderator in the Twitter subreddit. I'll state the obvious but it's not entirely unexpected for complex systems to encounter failures.

example from 2021:

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-down-outage-12...

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Post by paulddraper » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 6:18 PM UTC

Musk says it's DDoS. [1]

It's been in and out today.

[1] https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ky6zydYw5QPEfVKV4UT7j9-970...

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Post by reverendsteveii » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 6:21 PM UTC

RussianDriveByMalware.exe has encountered an error and needs to close

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Post by ceejayoz » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 6:22 PM UTC

riffic wrote: post #6

pre-acquisition there were frequent Twitter outages. I remember one particular lengthy outage during my brief tenure as a moderator in the Twitter subreddit. I'll state the obvious but it's not entirely unexpected for complex systems to encounter failures. example from 2021: https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-down-outage-12...

Yes, it's certainly not unheard of; early Twitter featured the "failwhale" pretty regularly.

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Post by paulddraper » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 6:22 PM UTC

33a wrote: post #3

BlueSky is still working great.

It had a pretty massive outage on Feb 26 FWIW. And Feb 19.

I don't recall seeing it on HN though.