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X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. (htxt.co.za)
submitted 1 day ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • 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.
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[โ€“] Yttra@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno about going down entirely, but bits and pieces (like SMS verification) definitely broke while they were undoing work and cutting "expenses" (like office leases)

[โ€“] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

Microservices and their consequences.