An X outage broke all outgoing links, again
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For the second time this year.

X outage breaks all outgoing links, again::An outage on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, caused the site to display an error message when users tried to click outgoing links.

  • neatchee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    744·
    11 months ago

    Ok but that thumbnail looks like Sonic the Hedgehog, right? I can’t be the only one who sees it

  • effward@lemmy.worldEnglish
    374·
    11 months ago

    Why is this “news”?

    Just don’t go on Xitter and you won’t have these “problems”…

    • theluddite@lemmy.mlEnglish
      14·
      11 months ago

      Most journalists are hopelessly addicted to Twitter. Microblogging is already designed to be addictive, but journalists’ entire careers hinge on how much engagement they get, so those little engagement-rewards hit hard. They’re going to keep writing about the platform until they’re forced to quit it because it’s the main thing that they use to interact with the world. Tto them, every twitter change is fucking earth shattering.

      It’s really crazy how much the people who inform the rest of us about the world have had their own reality warped by the platform.

  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    11 months ago

    Elon is either severely mentally handicapped or killing Twitter has been the objective.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      391·
      11 months ago

      He’s an incredibly impulsive malignant narcissist demanding sweeping changes without considering whether they’re feasible, amongst other ways by reacting to criticism in real time and often in the stupidest ways possible.

      He’s not technically handicapped, but he has the emotional maturity and judgment of a toddler who’s overdue for a nap.

        • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          104·
          11 months ago

          killing twitter is the goal

          Please explain the following:

          1. Why is killing Twitter worth half of his entire fortune?
          2. Why would he attach the X brand to it, something that has been his personal obsession throughout his life, if the goal was to kill it?
          3. Why isn’t it dead yet? He owns Twitter outright. He’s not the CEO. He’s not a major shareholder. He’s the owner. Full stop. If the goal was to kill it, he could fire everyone, shut the doors and turn off the lights. So why hasn’t he?
    • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      11 months ago

      Hey! No bully! His mom has been very clear that bullying her son is not nice because he is saving the world! 😠 /s

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    As if publishers and users didn’t have enough reasons to reconsider their connections to the platform formerly known as Twitter, all outgoing links from X stopped working Wednesday afternoon.

    We’ll stop making jokes and get things up and running soon.”

    After about an hour or so of that happening, the problem was fixed, although we haven’t seen any public acknowledgment of the issue from the @Support account, CEO Linda Yaccarino, or X owner / CTO Elon Musk.

    If this sounds familiar, it’s because something similar happened in March, taking down links and images across timelines for around an hour.

    Twitter blamed that on an “internal change that had some unintended consequences” before Platformer reported the bug occurred because of a mistake by the site’s single remaining site reliability engineer, who was operating solo after Musk instituted massive layoffs.

    Update December 13th, 2:31PM ET: Noted links are working again.

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