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  • 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.
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[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

Looks like Elon was chewing on the wires again

[–] forrcaho@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours 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.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 57 points 20 hours ago

Someone did the world a favor.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 47 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours 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.

[–] soupy_kid@lemmy.world 15 points 20 hours ago

Couldn't happen to Mastodon.

[–] Cephiroth@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

insert ‘oh no, anyway’ meme here

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

As you wish.

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

[–] Cephiroth@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I couldn’t figure out how to post a gif so I appreciate it!

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.world/post/1853818

Lemmy uses pretty standard markdown, so this works in lots of forums besides lemmy.

[–] Cephiroth@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I see. I also just discovered in Mlem that the little toolbar when composing a post can be scrolled left to right. Thanks for the info!

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, that's why xcancel was returning 502

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

nitter.net is back, by the way.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 4 points 19 hours ago
[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 326 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The world had peace for 30 minutes.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 124 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Let's gooooo. Take that garbage site out

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 hours ago

Was it related to graphql these clowns using?

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

In unrelated news, hate is reduced across the world.

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago

Nothing of value was lost.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 213 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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

Let it burn! It's not our problem.

[–] 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 (5 children)
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[–] 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.

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[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 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?

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 hours ago

DDOS on what exactly?

Which service? Graphql?

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[–] gyll@lemmy.world 104 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If we’re lucky it’s forever.

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[–] robbinhood@lemmy.world 151 points 1 day ago (17 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.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yeah, I really could not understand the motivation behind that. Why throw away such a valuable brand? I mean the name was even a clever play on words that also gave them a cute bird icon/mascot.

"Twitter", with that bird logo is just a slam dunk, that's solid gold branding... It's insane to randomly "go a different direction" and then land at "X". If I was their brand coordinator or director of marketing when they made that change, I'd resign then and there.

Changing their name to "X" was essentially lighting 20% of their assets on fire on day 1.

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[–] 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 19 hours ago

And tesla stock going into the gutter.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (18 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?

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

Chakalaka.

Dice an onion and a bell pepper, throw it into plenty of fat, sizzle until the onions are glassy, add some chilli (pickled is fine the end result can use some acid), not too little English curry powder, mix well, making sure the powder is roasted (it changes taste quite drastically), top with a grated carrot or two (veggie proportions are up to taste), put on the lid and let steam on medium heat (err towards low), once steamed (the carrot shreds basically fall apart) add a can of baked beans. Those don't need to be cooked, just let the stuff stand for a bit until everything is at equal temperature.

Eat as-is or with whatever, rice works well. Probably works with any curry mix I just happen to be out of Thai for a surprising amount of time now so I didn't try yet. Size-wise I'd say that the onion should be cut about half the size the beans are, and the bell pepper pieces to be about twice as large as the beans. If you want carrot pieces you can do that but I'd still suggest shredding some so that it can dissolve some sweetness into the saucy part.

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[–] 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 22 hours ago (1 children)

It was never up in this house.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I don't have an account. Never did. But I have a custom blocklist running on my router and elons crap is there. Along with a lot of trash sites like facebook.

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

Good riddance

[–] 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

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[–] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago

Do it again!

[–] npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 18 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.

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[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 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.

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