40 pointsby bakigul3 hours ago15 comments
  • willquack2 hours ago
    Why 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?
    • codingdave3 minutes ago
      In 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.
  • alyxya3 hours ago
    I 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.
    • DustinEchoes3 hours ago
      Yes, the head of product dev recently bragged about only having 30 engineers.
    • renegade-otter32 minutes ago
      From 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

      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.

    • small_model3 hours ago
      How may does GitHub have? its down far more than x.com
  • meetpateltech3 hours ago
    Can confirm.

    DownDetector showing widespread reports: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

  • kidmin3 hours ago
    Web/App aren't working. Updog also shows it's down. https://updog.ai/status/twitter
    • martibravo3 hours ago
      What's UpDog?
    • jandragsbaek3 hours ago
      oh, didn't know about Updog. Thanks for linking it - i need this in my life.
  • rsynnott3 hours ago
    Yes, why not go live in this guy's moon city, what could go wrong.
    • jgoewert2 hours ago
      Hey, 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.)

  • ivanmontillam3 hours ago
    Where does one go to complain that X is down when X itself is gone?
    • timonoko3 hours ago
      Grok will give solace and support. It assured me that I was not banned (yet).
  • small_model3 hours ago
    Down for me, cant login, UK
  • max_zorin_phd3 hours ago
    Same here (SF Bay Area).
  • newguytony2 hours ago
    Time to fire some more engineers and replace them with Grok.
  • victor53 hours ago
    my usual first habit to check if it down is go to twitter.. now twitter is down.
  • bijant3 hours ago
    It'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
  • angoragoats3 hours ago
    Nice. I hope it stays down; we’d all be better off.
    • alecsm3 hours ago
      Speak for yourself.

      I like it and I don't use it at all for politics.

      • mcast3 hours ago
        Selecting 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.
  • ErneX3 hours ago
    Yup.
  • haebom3 hours ago
    holy moly
  • spacedcowboy3 hours ago
    Hallelujah?