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Elon Musk's X down for users

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"Well we brought it back up, but for some reason it's full of racist vitriol and CSAM now."

"Oh, no, it was like that before."

You must be fun at parties.

It's sadly true though

And you don't have any humor.

Looking at DownDetector, I suspect a CloudFlare outage as there's some ominous climbing red lines for multiple services.

Currently it looks to me like X, Grok, CloudFlare and AWS are affected.

DownDetector gives you a graph of the number of people who googled "is XYZ service down" and clicked on a DownDetector link. It's a useful metric, but it also has error, because sometimes users blame the wrong service.

In this case, both AWS and Cloudflare had high-profile outages within the past few months. So a bunch of people tried to check their Twitter, got an error, and said "huh, I wonder if AWS is down again". Or during yesterday's Verizon outage, DownDetector also showed spikes on AT&T and T-Mobile, presumably from people who forgot what cellular provider they had, were roaming, or maybe were trying to call someone on another network.

It also doesn't help that they normalize the scale of their graphs on the front page. If you click them, you can see that 75k people googled "is X down", while only 200 people googled "is AWS down".

I didn't realise that - thanks for the info. I actually found out just from a breaking news alert on the BBC which is unusual as I usually see tech news elsewhere first.

I don't publish anymore in X, so I don't mind it. And by the number of points, I can see it is pretty obvious no one cares anymore. The owner is giving a great lesson on how to destroy a social network, while alienating the remaining users.

Isn't X still growing? Certainly it's a lot more popular than reddit in terms of users https://seo.ai/blog/how-many-users-on-x

The X doomer posters have the same energy as Facebook doomer posters 15 years ago. I remember watching ycombinator videos talk about how, back in the day, entrepreneurs wanted to create facebook clones because "everybody hates facebook", and the X hate has the same energy in my opinion. There are still too many things like investing or journalism where you just need an X if you want to stay relevant.

You say this like the Facebook gloom was wrong but I think Meta and the accumulation of other assets were an acknowledgement that fixing Facebook's decline in the important segments wasn't worthwhile.

What is "seo.ai" and how do they determine the numbers they publish? I looked and didn't find any methodology or real data, just a bunch of fluff words.

<clarkson>Oh no! Anyway...</clarkson>

Are we going to see separate articles on BBC news for each of Cloudflare, Docker, T-Mobile, Verizon, AWS all apparently affected by the same outage? Leading with the CEO's name?

lol of course not.

Can we prepend the owner of every company moving forward?

I think you forgot the /s tag (especially since it is an editorialization by the BBC, not the HN submitor). But yeah, the author probably has a motive for doing that.

That would be good for companies that replaced a well known brand name with a single letter.

100% uptime is a social construct.

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