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Twitter.com – Is Twitter Down?

75 points by antimora 2y ago

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PKop 2y ago
"The site has been unreachable for more than 80 days."
- PKop 2y ago
  ^The point is this is a bad resource to determine if the site is down, since it's been reporting it down for a long time. Use this one: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
mauerbac 2y ago
X is down
- nkozyra 2y ago
  Never heard of it.
  - tdhz77 2y ago
    It’s a letter in the English Alphabet.
    - nkozyra 2y ago
      Interesting, I'll check it out someday.
YetAnotherNick 2y ago
Better link for tracking: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
rubi1945 2y ago
X is moving to Cloudflare
dmonitor 2y ago
I see reports dating to back to around 4am. did the dst switch take it down?
- hocuspocus 2y ago
  If it's really a DDoS attack, I assume the perpetrators picked the time most inconvenient to current employees, which I believe are mostly located in the Bay Area compared to pre-Elon years where Twitter had a more geographically distributed workforce.
cadence- 2y ago
Yeah, it's down. Musk should stop working remotely and get back to the office to fix it ASAP!
- simion314 2y ago
  [flagged]
- qingcharles 2y ago
  He admitted today he is having "difficulties" running his businesses.
shrubble 2y ago
It's giving me problems and has been very inconsistent for about 90 minutes to 2 hours at this point. I got a partial refresh of my feed, but a lot is not working. The Grok AI appears down as well.
- echelon 2y ago
  I've fallen out of the habit of checking Twitter/X, but for some reason the notifications piqued my interest this morning. I tried loading the messages around 9:30 AM ET, and none of the notification messages nor my timeline loaded. It distinctly felt like server issues. Seems like they've been having issues all day? Not envying their oncall engineers right now.
DataDaemon 2y ago
They need laid off more people now.
- RGamma 2y ago
  And the rest will sleep in the office, because driving home every day is impeding the 100h work week.
tkubacki 2y ago
What are X/twitter alternatives ? I left twitter after recent Musk pro Russian statements.
- malshe 2y ago
  I switched to Bluesky a few months ago and very happy with that decision
- scrollbar 2y ago
  Bluesky bsky.app
- ceejayoz 2y ago
  Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon...
- herrherrmann 2y ago
  Mastodon (open/distributed/Wild West) and Bluesky (commercial/probably ending up like X at some point).
- AntonyGarand 2y ago
  Mastodon and Bluesky are the main ones as far as I'm aware
- deleted 2y ago
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- empath75 2y ago
  Bluesky is where the sane people seem to have gone.. there was a split between that and threads, but threads is dying off.
  - hocuspocus 2y ago
    I don't think Threads is dying, I believe Meta's numbers are actually quite good. But the content pushed by its engagement algorithm makes the experience pretty far from what I'd expect from a serious Twitter alternative, even after several apparent tweaks. It could be a good platform for brands and celebrities though.
empath75 2y ago
One of my first jobs was working at a fast food place, and my first night on the job, I was taking the trash out, and the thing tipped over, spilling it all over the parking lot, and I just said "fuck this" and went home and never came back. If I worked at Twitter right now, I'd be thinking about doing something like that again.
- mmooss 2y ago
  Did your co-workers have to clean it up?
- century19 2y ago
  I don’t think you are the hero in this story. Pretty terrible behavior.
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gotoeleven 2y ago
godel.com/isitdownrightnow.com/isitdownrightnow.com.html
SigmundurM 2y ago
[flagged]
- gruez 2y ago
  IANAL, but I would take down the redirect if I were you. Registering "twitter" as a domain name is already fraught as it is, but using it as a redirect to a competitor (ie. mastodon) basically makes it a slam dunk case that you're registering in "bad faith". https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2024-02-21-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2024-02-21-en
theandrewbailey 2y ago
Why does HN sometimes de-duplicate submissions, but not others? This other submission is the exact same link, but 3 minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322397
adamc 2y ago
No loss.
jasonthorsness 2y ago
It works fine for me, both twitter.com (which redirects to x.com) and x.com
- deleted 2y ago
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Vixel 2y ago
Good.
williamsmj 2y ago
His claim is that it's a DDOS attack. Not my area of engineering, so forgive me, but: is an external DDOS a plausible threat for competently engineered public service in 2025? I kind of got the impression those were solved problems in practice?
- bagels 2y ago
  If you have enough resources, you can definitely degrade the service.
- srid 2y ago
  This was posted just 3 hours ago: > There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. > We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. > Tracing … https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825
- williamsmj 2y ago
  https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/ https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/ Seems like they forgot to put some services behind Cloudflare. CTO should be fired then. Oh, wait.
rurp 2y ago
Is there any source for this being an attack other than Elon's tweet. I hope reporters aren't just taking his word for this given all of his past lies.

75 points by antimora 2y ago

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PKop 2y ago

"The site has been unreachable for more than 80 days."

PKop 2y ago
^The point is this is a bad resource to determine if the site is down, since it's been reporting it down for a long time. Use this one: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

mauerbac 2y ago

X is down

nkozyra 2y ago
Never heard of it.
- tdhz77 2y ago
  It’s a letter in the English Alphabet.
  - nkozyra 2y ago
    Interesting, I'll check it out someday.

YetAnotherNick 2y ago

Better link for tracking: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

rubi1945 2y ago

X is moving to Cloudflare

dmonitor 2y ago

I see reports dating to back to around 4am. did the dst switch take it down?

hocuspocus 2y ago
If it's really a DDoS attack, I assume the perpetrators picked the time most inconvenient to current employees, which I believe are mostly located in the Bay Area compared to pre-Elon years where Twitter had a more geographically distributed workforce.

cadence- 2y ago

Yeah, it's down. Musk should stop working remotely and get back to the office to fix it ASAP!

simion314 2y ago
[flagged]
qingcharles 2y ago
He admitted today he is having "difficulties" running his businesses.

shrubble 2y ago

It's giving me problems and has been very inconsistent for about 90 minutes to 2 hours at this point. I got a partial refresh of my feed, but a lot is not working. The Grok AI appears down as well.

echelon 2y ago
I've fallen out of the habit of checking Twitter/X, but for some reason the notifications piqued my interest this morning. I tried loading the messages around 9:30 AM ET, and none of the notification messages nor my timeline loaded. It distinctly felt like server issues. Seems like they've been having issues all day? Not envying their oncall engineers right now.

DataDaemon 2y ago

They need laid off more people now.

RGamma 2y ago
And the rest will sleep in the office, because driving home every day is impeding the 100h work week.

tkubacki 2y ago

What are X/twitter alternatives ? I left twitter after recent Musk pro Russian statements.

malshe 2y ago
I switched to Bluesky a few months ago and very happy with that decision
scrollbar 2y ago
Bluesky bsky.app
ceejayoz 2y ago
Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon...
herrherrmann 2y ago
Mastodon (open/distributed/Wild West) and Bluesky (commercial/probably ending up like X at some point).
AntonyGarand 2y ago
Mastodon and Bluesky are the main ones as far as I'm aware
deleted 2y ago
[deleted]
empath75 2y ago
Bluesky is where the sane people seem to have gone.. there was a split between that and threads, but threads is dying off.
- hocuspocus 2y ago
  I don't think Threads is dying, I believe Meta's numbers are actually quite good. But the content pushed by its engagement algorithm makes the experience pretty far from what I'd expect from a serious Twitter alternative, even after several apparent tweaks. It could be a good platform for brands and celebrities though.

empath75 2y ago

One of my first jobs was working at a fast food place, and my first night on the job, I was taking the trash out, and the thing tipped over, spilling it all over the parking lot, and I just said "fuck this" and went home and never came back. If I worked at Twitter right now, I'd be thinking about doing something like that again.

mmooss 2y ago
Did your co-workers have to clean it up?
century19 2y ago
I don’t think you are the hero in this story. Pretty terrible behavior.

deleted 2y ago

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gotoeleven 2y ago

godel.com/isitdownrightnow.com/isitdownrightnow.com.html

SigmundurM 2y ago

[flagged]

gruez 2y ago
IANAL, but I would take down the redirect if I were you. Registering "twitter" as a domain name is already fraught as it is, but using it as a redirect to a competitor (ie. mastodon) basically makes it a slam dunk case that you're registering in "bad faith". https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2024-02-21-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2024-02-21-en

theandrewbailey 2y ago

Why does HN sometimes de-duplicate submissions, but not others? This other submission is the exact same link, but 3 minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322397

adamc 2y ago

No loss.

jasonthorsness 2y ago

It works fine for me, both twitter.com (which redirects to x.com) and x.com

deleted 2y ago
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Vixel 2y ago

Good.

williamsmj 2y ago

His claim is that it's a DDOS attack. Not my area of engineering, so forgive me, but: is an external DDOS a plausible threat for competently engineered public service in 2025? I kind of got the impression those were solved problems in practice?

bagels 2y ago
If you have enough resources, you can definitely degrade the service.
srid 2y ago
This was posted just 3 hours ago: > There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. > We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. > Tracing … https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825
williamsmj 2y ago
https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/ https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/ Seems like they forgot to put some services behind Cloudflare. CTO should be fired then. Oh, wait.

rurp 2y ago

Is there any source for this being an attack other than Elon's tweet. I hope reporters aren't just taking his word for this given all of his past lies.