X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage - Hypertext
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Musk owned social media platform has just experienced its first major worldwide outage, though it seems the service is on the mend.
  • X, the former Twitter, has experienced a worldwide outage as of 12PM on Monday CAT.
  • This is likely the first major outage of the company since Musk took ownership in 2022.
  • The outage seems to have only lasted for about half an hour.
  • ayyyEnglish
    13·
    4 hours ago

    My government emergency alerts :(

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      3 hours ago

      I actually emailed my local National Weather Service station awhile back asking if they’d post on Mastodon and even offered them a BlueSky invite and they wrote back saying only Twitter and Facebook were allowed and they’d be everywhere if it was approved by higher ups.

      Someone made a BlueSky bot a few months ago for NWS notices and I’m pretty sure they covered every local one. I remember the person who made it asking people to request any missing stations. Not sure if there’s a Mastodon equivalent but you could use a bridge. It won’t help with transit delays or other local government announcements but the weather service stuff is available (via an AtProto <-> ActivityPub bridge if nothing else; it’s not like you interact with the posts so it’d be ideal for a bridge).

      • ayyyEnglish
        51·
        3 hours ago

        It’s behind a paywall and I’m not paying that Nazi.

      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Or on Blue Sky or Mastadon

        Hell reach put to your reps and tell them that they should have a Blue Sky and Mastodon for if something like this happens in the future.

        Ain’t no better time than now due to the Twitter outage.