Ask HN: X and Grok down since the early AM?
Anyone else seeing this? I'm on east coast, been down for me for hours.
X Is Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322371
X (Twitter) Is Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318757
Is X Down? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318709
X / Twitter down for a third time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321933
X down: Twitter not working amid major outage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43320900
Took longer than predicted.
Only a tiny fraction of tweets can be viewed without signing in.
Going to someone’s profile shows tweets in a seemingly random order.
Anecdotally, I don’t go to Twitter very often now, but when I do I frequently see the “something went wrong” page.
But yeah, if you force users to sign in to view, and also push (allegedly) 80% of those users to other platforms, I guess you can keep things mostly working with a skeleton crew while you dismantle the government.
This leads me to believe that they attack is using image metadata as a vector of attack.
There are many possible root causes which could explain what you observed.
> 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.