Social media platform X suffers global outages (www.bbc.com)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 14:00
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Social media platform X suffers global outages::Users were unable to view posts on the social media site for just over an hour.

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autotldr@lemmings.world on 21 Dec 2023 14:00 next collapse

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered global outages for just over an hour on Thursday.

According to Downdetector.com, which tracks outages by collating status reports, more than 47,000 US users faced access issues with X and X Pro.

The hashtag #TwitterDown started trending within minutes of reports of the outages emerging.

Since Mr Musk bought the platform, it has been suffering from a loss of advertising revenue.

The company has since sued a left-leaning pressure group, Media Matters for America, which made the accusation.

Last month, Elon Musk slammed advertisers that left X, saying they would kill the social media platform.

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KISSmyOS@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 14:02 next collapse

The network admins didn’t write enough lines of code and were all fired.

AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 17:32 collapse

Counterpoint. They were writing too much code that didn’t add value to X, according to Elon, and were fired.

KISSmyOS@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 17:55 collapse

Counterpoint: Their code just wasn’t salient enough.

rdyoung@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 14:15 next collapse

And nothing of value was lost.

spudwart@spudwart.com on 21 Dec 2023 14:41 collapse

Except for a missed opportunity to push for users to jump ship to a Mastodon instance.

rdyoung@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 15:15 collapse

That will come with time. As more companies embrace it, more people will follow.

spudwart@spudwart.com on 21 Dec 2023 15:27 collapse

Yes, but every little effort helps.

rdyoung@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 19:20 collapse

Agree but I am not sure what that couple of hours of downtime would have done to further the movement

spudwart@spudwart.com on 21 Dec 2023 20:58 collapse

Well, for some it may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Twitter hasn’t exactly been great prior to the outage.

rdyoung@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 21:18 collapse

Right, but, how many people could have been persuaded to move if twitter didn’t have an outage? That’s my point. Nothing of value was lost, including moving people to mastodon and the like. Along with pushing mastodon on twitter, we should be jumping on every twitter news article and discussion here and on reddit and reminding people that an alternative exists.

It won’t be long before the only ones left on twitter are bots, trolls and idiots.

packetloss@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 15:40 next collapse

Elon probably unplugged a whole datacenter again.

futurism.com/elon-musk-moved-twitter-servers-hims…

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world on 21 Dec 2023 17:36 collapse

Oh no. Anyways…