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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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[–] Treczoks 16 points 1 day ago

Good. Sadly it was fixed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And the owner wants to "automate" the US government with AI.

The idiots are in charge.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

The US are truly turning into a real-life version of "Idiocracy". I'm just waiting for Trump's orders to start watering crops with Gatorade

[–] rageagainstmachines 9 points 1 day ago

What can we do to keep it like this forever?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can we get a permanent outage of that goddamned website, pretty please? For the sake of humanity?

There have been so many instances where i wanna see replies of a post or more stuff about a person, but then that mandatory account log in wall kicks in.

[–] multiplewolves 3 points 1 day ago

Add “cancel” after the X in the url for workaround access. Like any other workaround, this will only work until it doesn’t anymore

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41546640

[–] resetbypeer 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Just imagine what this saves in hosting bills

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

oh no, anyways . . .

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Funny enough, Anonymous is claiming it was them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I hadn't noticed.

[–] RagingRobot 5 points 1 day ago

I love that for them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Looks like annonomus is saying they took it down.

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