Outage

Twitter outages

X was Down (again)

X experienced yet another significant outage lasting over an hour. During this time, users were unable to refresh their timelines on mobile apps, and the web version displayed a generic welcome message. Netblocks confirmed the outage as significant and international, not related to country-level blocks. While timelines were inaccessible, users could still post, and notifications for new posts were functioning. The outage also affected the visibility of accounts like Elon Musk's and current CEO L

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X outage broke all outgoing links (again)

X experienced an outage where all outgoing links stopped functioning, redirecting users to an error page with a quirky message. This issue, which lasted for about an hour, is reminiscent of a similar incident in March when links and images were taken down due to an internal change gone wrong. The March outage was attributed to a mistake by the site's sole remaining site reliability engineer following massive layoffs. The recent outage was resolved without any public acknowledgment from X's supp

Twitter down for two hours around the world

Twitter experienced a two-hour global outage that affected its "Following" and "For You" feeds. The issue was reported by the outage-tracking site DownDetector and seemed to be resolved within two hours. Despite the outage, users were still able to tweet, although their tweets were not visible in the affected feeds. The outage occurred shortly after Twitter reportedly laid off 10% of its current 2,000-strong workforce. Experts have warned that such major job cuts could lead to technical issues

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