X Is Down

[cheptsov]

https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

[throw16180339]

I expect Musk to blame Ukraine and use this as an excuse for sanctions against them.

[madspindel]

He will trace the DDoS to Ukraine and shut down Starlink there.

[33a]

BlueSky is still working great.

[paulddraper → 33a]

It had a pretty massive outage on Feb 26 FWIW. And Feb 19.

I don't recall seeing it on HN though.

[inzbieda → 33a]

Unfortunately I got banned on BS.

[uxcolumbo → inzbieda]

Why?

[reverendsteveii]

RussianDriveByMalware.exe has encountered an error and needs to close

[jbverschoor]

I think they a powercable of the wrong server

[SketchySeaBeast → jbverschoor]

Pardon?

[thedudeabides5]

DDoS?

[vardump → thedudeabides5]

Seems like it. Page loads occasionally succeed.

[ashoeafoot → thedudeabides5]

No Doge. Similar denial of servuce.

[riffic]

pre-acquisition there were frequent Twitter outages. I remember one particular lengthy outage during my brief tenure as a moderator in the Twitter subreddit. I'll state the obvious but it's not entirely unexpected for complex systems to encounter failures.

example from 2021:

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-down-outage-12...

[ceejayoz → riffic]

Yes, it's certainly not unheard of; early Twitter featured the "failwhale" pretty regularly.

[riffic → ceejayoz]

I'm not talking about Early Twitter though. I specifically bring up an outage in an era with competent organizational ops or SRE capacity.

2021 was well beyond the growing pains in the "failwhale" period.

[Hamuko → ceejayoz]

There was a massive time period between the failwhale era and the acquisition. Like 15 years or a bit under?

[Vixel]

Good.

[paulddraper]

Musk says it's DDoS. [1]

It's been in and out today.

[1] https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ky6zydYw5QPEfVKV4UT7j9-970...

[SketchySeaBeast → paulddraper]

"Tracing" a DDoS?

[fred_is_fred → paulddraper]

If Musk says it's DDOS then it's almost certainly not DDOS.

[ElijahLynn → fred_is_fred]

I wouldn't have believed this a few years ago but I do now. If you sell your soul to the biggest liar on Earth, then you are complicit and probably have similar neurological patterns.