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Social media platform X suffers global outages

56 points by vinni2 3y ago

FloNeu 3y ago
What a genius 4d chess move.
- guerrilla 3y ago
  Obviously incompetent is an understatement when it comes to this whole fiasco but hear me out here: Twitter being offline and hitting the headlines probably got a lot of people to check if it was down and some of those people stuck around and got re-addicted. On the other hand, they probably lost user's attention due to the outage.
- CamperBob2 3y ago
  He said he would sink the company. I don't know why people are acting so surprised. (That's what he meant, right, with the bathroom-sink thing? I'm slow to catch on sometimes.)
  - belter 3y ago
    They are now...plumbing to new depths....One clogged idea at a time...
- dorkwood 3y ago
  I know you're joking but I think this could legitimately be a ploy by Elon to keep Twitter in the news, which can be a big source of traffic. Pretty smart, really.
dfgfek 3y ago
Half the article is slamming twitter for completely unrelated things, lol
- Baldbvrhunter 3y ago
  It only really needs the first sentence. "Popular website down for an hour", film at 11
  - Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y ago
    "For a whole hour journalists found nothing to be happening in the world."
    - prmoustache 3y ago
      They are pretty much the only ones noticing social medias outages.
    - junofan 3y ago
      [flagged]
      - upvote_test_act 3y ago
        If you think that was somehow a righteous move, you are kidding the living daylights outta yourself, friend.
- belter 3y ago
  This is the BBC, also known as the land of missing the point.
- dogleash 3y ago
  Journos' relationship with Twitter is a bunch of self-styled smart people that don't realize they're serious-posting about their version of discord mod drama.
0xbadc0de5 3y ago
And for just over an hour, the world was a better place.
- 5345459 3y ago
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ilovetux 3y ago
> Last month, Elon Musk slammed advertisers that left X, saying they would kill the social media platform. Slammed is a pretty strong word for a juvenile temper tamtrum that he shared with the world.
- igetspam 3y ago
  That's his version of it: name calling and whining. Let's not forget that he called a rescue diver a "pedo guy" because he lived in a popular place for divers and thought Elmo's wild rescue tube wasn't going to work (it wasn't).
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    Yeah, that was a watershed moment about him for me. I was never enthralled with Trump like many people because I was familiar with his history, but that moment was when I shifted to thinking of him as an actively terrible person.
    - JohnFen 3y ago
      It's too late to fix it, but when I said "Trump", I meant "Musk". Perhaps a bit of a Freudian slip there.
- 5345459 3y ago
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verisimi 3y ago
> The hashtag #TwitterDown started trending within minutes of reports of the outages emerging. funny - trending where exactly?
- thepasswordis 3y ago
  On twitter. It was on the trending tab.
- Hamuko 3y ago
  It was a partial outage, so you could write tweets, but not read them.
- nuz 3y ago
  On threads
submeta 3y ago
In Germany, Twitter is one of few ways to get informed about the war in Gaza. - German media completely ignores the horrors happening there. And attacks intellectuals like Masha Gessen, cancels others like Ilan Pappe, Judith Butler, Candice Breitz, Ai Wei Wei, smears Greta Thunberg, and many others. So yes, Twitter is a very important channel to listen to various voices. Germany did something similar in dealing with Covid. Everyone not in line with the officially accepted narrative was attacked, ridiculed, smeared. I started discussions with "although I have been vaccinated", to have permission to speak.
- 5345459 3y ago
  [dead]
- WhackyIdeas 3y ago
  I absolutely love Germany, it’s my favourite destination. So I am a quite upset about what you are saying. It’s not all that different to the stories we all heard about how the media and public turned a blind eye at the horrors orchestrated on the Jewish people, but now it’s happening 90 years later on the Palestinian people (the numbers of dead civilians speak volumes). When Russia went to war with Ukraine, I thought it was barbaric… unjust.. and evil. But after 20,000 dead in Gaza (mostly women and children according to media) and the place being flattened, it makes Russia look ten times less nasty. Gaza will be a car park soon.
  - myspy 3y ago
    The post is exaggerated. Media is still reporting what is happening there. The problem is that journalism is not well equipped anymore to give deeper insights (for example sending people there to find out what is really going on without relying on either parties reporting). The conflict started and due to the scale of the Hamas attack and the German government supporting Israel due to its historic connection it is Israel focused. That's what I get from the media landscape.
  - gryzzly 3y ago
    [flagged]
raptor99 3y ago
https://archive.is/57nTB https://archive.is/57nTB
Hamuko 3y ago
Bluesky saw a lot more traffic today. https://bsky.app/profile/jaz.bsky.social/post/3kh2253dzi22s https://bsky.app/profile/jaz.bsky.social/post/3kh2253dzi22s (https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fjaz.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3kh2253dzi22s&viewtype=tree https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile... if you don't have an account)
brianbest101 3y ago
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56 points by vinni2 3y ago

FloNeu 3y ago

What a genius 4d chess move.

guerrilla 3y ago
Obviously incompetent is an understatement when it comes to this whole fiasco but hear me out here: Twitter being offline and hitting the headlines probably got a lot of people to check if it was down and some of those people stuck around and got re-addicted. On the other hand, they probably lost user's attention due to the outage.
CamperBob2 3y ago
He said he would sink the company. I don't know why people are acting so surprised. (That's what he meant, right, with the bathroom-sink thing? I'm slow to catch on sometimes.)
- belter 3y ago
  They are now...plumbing to new depths....One clogged idea at a time...
dorkwood 3y ago
I know you're joking but I think this could legitimately be a ploy by Elon to keep Twitter in the news, which can be a big source of traffic. Pretty smart, really.

dfgfek 3y ago

Half the article is slamming twitter for completely unrelated things, lol

Baldbvrhunter 3y ago
It only really needs the first sentence. "Popular website down for an hour", film at 11
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y ago
  "For a whole hour journalists found nothing to be happening in the world."
  - prmoustache 3y ago
    They are pretty much the only ones noticing social medias outages.
  - junofan 3y ago
    [flagged]
    - upvote_test_act 3y ago
      If you think that was somehow a righteous move, you are kidding the living daylights outta yourself, friend.
belter 3y ago
This is the BBC, also known as the land of missing the point.
dogleash 3y ago
Journos' relationship with Twitter is a bunch of self-styled smart people that don't realize they're serious-posting about their version of discord mod drama.

0xbadc0de5 3y ago

And for just over an hour, the world was a better place.

5345459 3y ago
[dead]

ilovetux 3y ago

> Last month, Elon Musk slammed advertisers that left X, saying they would kill the social media platform. Slammed is a pretty strong word for a juvenile temper tamtrum that he shared with the world.

igetspam 3y ago
That's his version of it: name calling and whining. Let's not forget that he called a rescue diver a "pedo guy" because he lived in a popular place for divers and thought Elmo's wild rescue tube wasn't going to work (it wasn't).
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
- JohnFen 3y ago
  Yeah, that was a watershed moment about him for me. I was never enthralled with Trump like many people because I was familiar with his history, but that moment was when I shifted to thinking of him as an actively terrible person.
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    It's too late to fix it, but when I said "Trump", I meant "Musk". Perhaps a bit of a Freudian slip there.
5345459 3y ago
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verisimi 3y ago

> The hashtag #TwitterDown started trending within minutes of reports of the outages emerging. funny - trending where exactly?

thepasswordis 3y ago
On twitter. It was on the trending tab.
Hamuko 3y ago
It was a partial outage, so you could write tweets, but not read them.
nuz 3y ago
On threads

submeta 3y ago

In Germany, Twitter is one of few ways to get informed about the war in Gaza. - German media completely ignores the horrors happening there. And attacks intellectuals like Masha Gessen, cancels others like Ilan Pappe, Judith Butler, Candice Breitz, Ai Wei Wei, smears Greta Thunberg, and many others. So yes, Twitter is a very important channel to listen to various voices. Germany did something similar in dealing with Covid. Everyone not in line with the officially accepted narrative was attacked, ridiculed, smeared. I started discussions with "although I have been vaccinated", to have permission to speak.

5345459 3y ago
[dead]
WhackyIdeas 3y ago
I absolutely love Germany, it’s my favourite destination. So I am a quite upset about what you are saying. It’s not all that different to the stories we all heard about how the media and public turned a blind eye at the horrors orchestrated on the Jewish people, but now it’s happening 90 years later on the Palestinian people (the numbers of dead civilians speak volumes). When Russia went to war with Ukraine, I thought it was barbaric… unjust.. and evil. But after 20,000 dead in Gaza (mostly women and children according to media) and the place being flattened, it makes Russia look ten times less nasty. Gaza will be a car park soon.
- myspy 3y ago
  The post is exaggerated. Media is still reporting what is happening there. The problem is that journalism is not well equipped anymore to give deeper insights (for example sending people there to find out what is really going on without relying on either parties reporting). The conflict started and due to the scale of the Hamas attack and the German government supporting Israel due to its historic connection it is Israel focused. That's what I get from the media landscape.
- gryzzly 3y ago
  [flagged]

raptor99 3y ago

https://archive.is/57nTB https://archive.is/57nTB

Hamuko 3y ago

Bluesky saw a lot more traffic today. https://bsky.app/profile/jaz.bsky.social/post/3kh2253dzi22s https://bsky.app/profile/jaz.bsky.social/post/3kh2253dzi22s (https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fjaz.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3kh2253dzi22s&viewtype=tree https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile... if you don't have an account)

brianbest101 3y ago

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