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Musk owned social media platform has just experienced its first major worldwide outage, though it seems the service is on the mend.
  • 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.
  • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    1 month ago

    But wait, isn’t this some sort of official government communication channel now? Sure there must be uptime agreements and penalties for such a thing, right? Right?!?

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    1 month 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.

  • robbinhood@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1531·
    1 month ago

    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.

    • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 month 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.

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      I’m glad he did, now there is a clear line from when it was acceptable to when it wasn’t.

      The USA probably won’t rebrand when its a fully fascist state.

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      1 month ago

      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”

    • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
      9·
      1 month 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.

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month 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.

    • jef@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I feel like most if not pretty much all of the value of Twitter was the name itself, and the recognition it had.

      • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        I think it comes down to the patty at the end. If it’s a frozen patty, like a bubba burger, it can be cooked to perfection, but it requires constant attention to detail otherwise it’s either undercooked mush, or an overcooked grey thing. Generally patties that are hand made are more forgiving. But even then, I guess the cheese and bread involved are possible phases to one up or really detract from a burger. I think I’m just really hungry for a good burger and it’s late

        • Lady Butterfly @lazysoci.alEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          I totally agree with you. Frozen isn’t worth it IMO having less higher quality is the way. Excellent cheese and bread can improve things, however the burger should be the main event and other things a mere accessory

    • Mohamed@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      Weird that they said “only” half an hour. Thats a really long time

    • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • daddy32@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        I’m quite surprised it took this long for the outage to appear after all those cuts by the fucker.

        • dekomote@lemmy.worldEnglish
          223·
          1 month ago

          I was just talking to a friend who’s very anti-nazi (at least, that’s what he says), told him that by staying there, he’s feeding the nazis. He says that he’s the resistance working from within lol. People would tell themselves all kinds of stories for convenience.

            • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
              191·
              1 month ago

              I mean, there’s no comparison. Punching Nazis is always cool, Twitter is just talking to them, which never is. You and fifty friends go on Twitter and dunk on Nazis all day and you’re still just at a table talking with the enemy. Take fifty friends to a Nazi bar and throw punches, you’ve just improved the neighbourhood.

      • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
        191·
        1 month 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).