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X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. (htxt.co.za)
submitted 6 hours ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • X, the former Twitter, has experienced a worldwide outage as of 12PM on Monday CAT.
  • This is likely the first major outage of the company since Musk took ownership in 2022.
  • The outage seems to have only lasted for about half an hour.
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[–] robbinhood@lemmy.world 109 points 6 hours ago (7 children)

I still can't believe he nuked the Twitter brand. It was like the most valuable part of the platform. X is such a dumb, generic nothing name.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

He is really really dumb person, so it is not surprising he does stupid stuff. Look at cybershit, tesla robot (driven by people remotely), anything he did last year... He is fucking dumb idiot.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 9 points 4 hours ago

You are really surprised by a guy who wanted to name his car series S-E-X-Y and had a temper tantrum when model E was taken and he could not "buy" it.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's going to be so easy for him to turn that x into a swastika in a couple of years though. Its what's known in tech circles as IED "iterative evil design"

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Systemd now wants to do homedirs. Is that the same thing?

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 points 1 hour ago

What do you mean “do” homedirs? Like be some kind of file system broker?

[–] SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de 28 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Well, now you can tweet wherever you like and don't have to invent a silly new verb for every new platform.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 28 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I like referring to it as xitter, pronounced "shitter". What were once tweets are now steaming piles of xit. Or someone taking/dropping a xit.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 15 points 4 hours ago

X-crements

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 11 points 4 hours ago

I'm glad he did, now there is a clear line from when it was acceptable to when it wasn't.

The USA probably won't rebrand when its a fully fascist state.

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully the next rebrand will be from X to rm -rf /.

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Or Bobby Droptables

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

It just depends on which type of serifs he puts on the X.