Is Twitter/X Down

[vzaliva]

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.

[Racing0461]

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.

[AlienRobot]

But if your instance is down how do you post?

[liquidgecka]

Ahh yes.. replace the SPOF with a distributed SPOF /s :-)

[trindenise]

Yes...all my timelines are gone. Cannot see anyone else timeliness. Treating me like a new user with a welcome message to set up my account. Also, the text as well as the like button, RT has shrunk and is very tiny. Only thing working is "Spaces"

[trilbyglens]

Because no one is using them probably :D

[nicetryguy]

same behavior

[Brajeshwar]

It used to be a celebration of how popular Twitter was becoming when one sees the Fail Whale - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Outages

[justinzollars]

Yeah, they need to bring the fail whale back!

[riffic]

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

soon.

[justinzollars]

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.

[gabeidx]

RIP Orkut

[firekvz]

club penguin not on this list, RIP

[kernal]

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

[mmastrac]

In the early days of Twitter at least we'd get the fail whale. I would love to go back to the early energy of Twitter but not like this...

[none_to_remain]

It seems increasingly the norm not to acknowledge any failure, but to simply fail to operate without admitting anything is wrong. Institutionally as well as technologically.

[minimaxir]

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

[WediBlino]

All I did was tweet ";drop table tweets;"

[yread]

That's what they get for using plural in table names

[u320]

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

[radium3d]

Threads kinda sucks, it just shows you what their algorithm wants to show you, no ability to search for posts is pretty lame.

[Hamuko]

Are people in the EU actually even trying it? I might've been interested in trying it when it launched in the US/UK/Japan when everyone was making their "I'm now on Threads" posts, but now it seems pretty self-evident no one was actually moving there.

[insanitybit]

Yes, it's acting like I'm a completely new user. All of my tweets are gone, although 'reactions' are still there.

A major outage at 10PM PST is not fun :\ sorry Twitter ops.

[slimebot80]

Neither is the time of year. The few remaining staff will be recovering from Xmas parties just before the long Christmas weekend if not already on holidays.

[riffic]

I thought I got banned.

[haneefmubarak]

(slightly) earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326

[gigglesupstairs]

@dang please merge the threads.

[hubraumhugo]

Imagine working for Twitter ops and getting a phone call from angry Elon at your Xmas party, with a festive hat on, enjoying your beer, and then having to tell everybody you have to leave for the office now at 11 pm.

Any such real-world stories?

[slimebot80]

It's not down, it's having a software update.

[donalhunt]

The "Apple" approach? At least with apple it usually means new stuff is coming…

[radium3d]

The most interesting thing is that Elon is completely silenced when X/Twitter is down. He has no other social media accounts to communicate through. Anyone got his number?

[cyrux004]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326

[jerojero]

Seems to be going for a while.

I wonder if we'll get some kind of clarification on what happened. Those posts are always fun to read as you get to see what goes wrong on big software with millions of users!

It should be back working soon, i hope. Hopefully no data is lost.

[rsynnott]

I mean, you’ll get an Elon tweet along the lines of “Servers are woke”, and you’ll like it. I don’t think Musk companies have the sort of culture that produces detailed RCAs.

[Hamuko]

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.

[malephex]

Elon probably didn't pay the compute bill.

[Log_out_]

? Shows the Xitter login screen and is the landing page? I thought up down monitoring should be hosted by different services?

[u320]

It looks to be working again, at least for me.

[evbogue]

Yah it's up again. Damnit now how will Threads take off.

[jeffhuys]

Confirmed

[mschuster91]

Yeah, down in Germany and Croatia as well. Looks like their API has some serious issues.

[ulfw]

Not just their API

[kernelsoe]

Currently no posts are loaded on my computer/phone. Only skeleton + suggestions.