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
    724·
    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
      13·
      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
      381·
      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?
          • lando55@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            he could fire everyone, shut the doors and turn off the lights.

            Can he? Genuine question, since I’d be interested to know if he’d be subject to litigation from the shareholders

            • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              31·
              11 months ago

              By this person’s logic, Musk was willing to tank 200bn of his net worth to kill twitter. Why would he give a single flying shit about a lawsuit or four? At best he’d owe them back the value of their investment, which is apparently, according to the insane logic of the “He’s deliberately killing twitter” crowd, small change to see a single social media site dead.

              • lando55@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                Yeah I get that. But we were operating under the assumption that either a. he is mentally handicapped or b. he is intentionally tanking the company.

                There is also the possibility that he is both deliberately destroying the brand while also severely lacking the mental acuity to understand that there are more feasible options available. I don’t personally subscribe to this theory, I can only subjectively say that he has made numerous questionable business decisions, and probably never wanted to buy Twitter in the first place.

                • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  First off, yes, he didn’t want to buy Twitter. That much is established fact. He went to court to get out of buying Twitter (unless we’re suddenly supposed to believe that was some kind of elaborate 5D chess move made for reasons our puny mortal minds cannot understand).

                  Given that he didn’t want to buy the company in the first place, why would he be digging that hole deeper by deliberately destroying it?

                  “He’s a idiot” is not a satisfactory explanation. Idiots don’t crash their cars on purpose just because they were idiots. They crash their cars for numerous reasons such as texting and driving, drinking and driving, etc, but not “Because they wanted to.”

                  To be clear, Musk is an idiot. We can thank this whole debacle for finally helping people finally grasp that. But he thinks he’s smart. He thinks he’s a good businessman. That’s why he’s doing all the things that he’s doing; because he genuinely thinks this is how to be successful. That’s why he attached his beloved X brand to this sinking ship; because he’s too caught up in his own ego to recognize that it’s sinking, and that he’s the one sinking it.

                  “He’s trying to kill Twitter” is an excuse that people come up with because they spent so long believing the man was a genius that now they can’t square that with the recent flood of evidence that he’s not. So they need there to be some other explanation. It can’t be that he’s just incompetent. It has to be that this is all part of his master plan. This is no different than QAnons trying to rationalize away every stupid thing Trump does by claiming its all secretly genius.

    • 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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