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Twitter(X) Is Down
https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
- angoragoats 7mo agoNice. I hope it stays down; we’d all be better off.
- alecsm 7mo agoSpeak for yourself. I like it and I don't use it at all for politics.
- mcast 7mo agoSelecting your own mute words for your timeline is the best part about Twitter. The algorithm changes have been pretty bad in the last few weeks though.
- angoragoats 7mo agoFYI the “mute by keyword” feature exists both on Bluesky and Mastodon and I use it extensively. I don’t use Threads but a quick search tells me it’s available there too. Now you know, and you don’t need to use twitter anymore!
- angoragoats 7mo agoI didn’t say you don’t like it, I said we’d all be better off, and I stand by that. Also, a piece of advice, it’s not a good look to hang out at the Nazi bar if you aren’t a Nazi.
- kidmin 7mo agoWeb/App aren't working. Updog also shows it's down. https://updog.ai/status/twitter https://updog.ai/status/twitter
- jandragsbaek 7mo agooh, didn't know about Updog. Thanks for linking it - i need this in my life.
- martibravo 7mo agoWhat's UpDog?
- haebom 7mo agoholy moly
- ivanmontillam 7mo agoWhere does one go to complain that X is down when X itself is gone?
- timonoko 7mo agoGrok will give solace and support. It assured me that I was not banned (yet).
- ErneX 7mo agoYup.
- max_zorin_phd 7mo agoSame here (SF Bay Area).
- alyxya 7mo agoI read that they only have 30 people maintaining the whole app. It must be difficult holding everything together with so few people, and probably insufficient redundancy with oncall.
- DustinEchoes 7mo agoYes, the head of product dev recently bragged about only having 30 engineers.
- small_model 7mo agoHow may does GitHub have? its down far more than x.com
- renegade-otter 7mo agoFrom what I understand, they effectively rewrote all Scala/JVM/Python services to go through the xAI engine for their feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8JOlCvA4Qs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8JOlCvA4Qs I am not sure how that works at scale or how much money that burns, OR if this is even true, but a Rust monolith of this kind, where everything is a Black Box, could very will be maintained by 30 people. That said, X is a complete dumpster fire where I want to pour Clorox into my eyes after 30 seconds. I miss being plugged into a 24/7 feed of professional reporters, and at the same time - thank you, Elon, for fixing my addiction.
- jpmcglone 7mo agoSometimes more people in the kitchen is worse
- bijant 7mo agoIt's literally been one month since the last outage. This is getting ridiculous. Past Degradations Provider Status Page 3mo Past 3 Months UTC+01:00 Jan 16, 2026 Duration 55m 4:10 pm - 5:05 pm resolved
- meetpateltech 7mo agoCan confirm. DownDetector showing widespread reports: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
- small_model 7mo agoDown for me, cant login, UK
- spacedcowboy 7mo agoHallelujah?
- victor5 7mo agomy usual first habit to check if it down is go to twitter.. now twitter is down.
- rsynnott 7mo agoYes, why not go live in this guy's moon city, what could go wrong.
- jgoewert 7mo agoHey, the uptime for oxygen is 99.9% this month Why are you complaining about the half hour of no air? Did you suffer some sort of brain damage? (<-- that's the joke. look up "hypoxia" if you didn't get it. Oh, and try not to get hypoxia.)
- newguytony 7mo agoTime to fire some more engineers and replace them with Grok.
- willquack 7mo agoWhy is there an expectation for social media services to have such high uptime? It's not an ISP or cloud provider, why does it matter if it goes down occasionally?
- codingdave 7mo agoIn my mind, it isn't about any specific expectation. Events like this are interesting because the cracks are starting to show when a company follows the "fire as many people as possible, run lean, integrate AI" strategy. The trend I'm seeing is that downtimes are becoming more common, which in turn does not speak well to that strategy.
- fogzen 7mo agoBecause many people (including high profile CEOs and VCs) are social media and X addicts. They spend literally all waking hours interacting with it.
- xp84 7mo agoYes, I think we’d all benefit from that perspective. Of course, the revenue implications for the ownership of one of these pointless brain rot factories being down for a half hour are enormous. That’s a little notable but only for their shareholders.
- Muaz_Ashraf 7mo agoYes I was checking my tweets and suddenly it was down also in Youtube no video was playing.
- mcintyre1994 7mo agoSeems to be dead again