X Is Down

by cheptsovon 3/10/25, 4:41 PMwith 23 comments
by madspindelon 3/10/25, 6:47 PM

He will trace the DDoS to Ukraine and shut down Starlink there.

by rifficon 3/10/25, 6:13 PM

pre-acquisition there were frequent Twitter outages. I remember one particular lengthy outage during my brief tenure as a moderator in the Twitter subreddit. I'll state the obvious but it's not entirely unexpected for complex systems to encounter failures.

example from 2021:

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-down-outage-12...

by 33aon 3/10/25, 5:51 PM

BlueSky is still working great.

by reverendsteveiion 3/10/25, 6:21 PM

RussianDriveByMalware.exe has encountered an error and needs to close

by paulddraperon 3/10/25, 6:18 PM

Musk says it's DDoS. [1]

It's been in and out today.

[1] https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ky6zydYw5QPEfVKV4UT7j9-970...

by Vixelon 3/10/25, 6:09 PM

Good.

by thedudeabides5on 3/10/25, 5:43 PM

DDoS?

by throw16180339on 3/10/25, 10:17 PM

I expect Musk to blame Ukraine and use this as an excuse for sanctions against them.

by jbverschooron 3/10/25, 7:46 PM

I think they a powercable of the wrong server