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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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[–] [email protected] 94 points 7 hours ago (14 children)

Who the fuck is still on that nazi shithole

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

My government emergency alerts :(

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago

I actually emailed my local National Weather Service station awhile back asking if they’d post on Mastodon and even offered them a BlueSky invite and they wrote back saying only Twitter and Facebook were allowed and they’d be everywhere if it was approved by higher ups.

Someone made a BlueSky bot a few months ago for NWS notices and I’m pretty sure they covered every local one. I remember the person who made it asking people to request any missing stations. Not sure if there’s a Mastodon equivalent but you could use a bridge. It won’t help with transit delays or other local government announcements but the weather service stuff is available (via an AtProto <-> ActivityPub bridge if nothing else; it’s not like you interact with the posts so it’d be ideal for a bridge).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Make a bot that listens to those and posts them here.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

It would be poetic if the cyber attacks would be coming from Ukrainian hackers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Funny enough, Anonymous is claiming it was them.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Everyone strives for 5 9s, but musk aims for two 8s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Don't forget the 14 words! Someone screenshotted this at just the right time:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I don't know the 5 9s reference, but the two 8s is 88, a Nazi dog whistle for Heil Hitler, as H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Oh okay, thank you ☺️

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[–] [email protected] 270 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The world had peace for 30 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Arkham Asylum grid failure

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[–] [email protected] 178 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 hours ago

I assume we're in a similar boat so let me assure you: no, you won't - because we wouldn't even realize it happened.

Only after s few months one of us will recall this thread and be like "oh, yeah. Twitter. Seems really dead finally. Good."

And to be clear I expect they person to be you because my memory is awful.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

God I hope there's some engineer somewhere at X quietly sabotaging all of their services.

Should plant a timed zip bomb on the servers that autoruns on reboot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Plug that random USB stick you found on the sidewalk directly into the server and open up Link_ParkFullAlbum-LimeWire.exe

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

"Something went wrong. Try Mastodon."

[–] [email protected] 123 points 8 hours ago (8 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago

He is really really dumb person, so it is not surprising he does stupid stuff. Look at cybershit, tesla robot (driven by people remotely), anything he did last year... He is fucking dumb idiot.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

It's going to be so easy for him to turn that x into a swastika in a couple of years though. Its what's known in tech circles as IED "iterative evil design"

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well, now you can tweet wherever you like and don't have to invent a silly new verb for every new platform.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I like referring to it as xitter, pronounced "shitter". What were once tweets are now steaming piles of xit. Or someone taking/dropping a xit.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

You are really surprised by a guy who wanted to name his car series S-E-X-Y and had a temper tantrum when model E was taken and he could not "buy" it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

What can we do to keep it like this forever?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 hours ago

And nothing was lost.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 hours ago

Now this is the kind of X news I'm okay with reading.

Although I can only imagine what this means for the US since Musk is treating the government like one of his businesses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

I love that for them

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 hours ago

And nothing of value was lost.

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