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‘One thing went unsuitable’
Ever the grasp of understatement, X is greeting many customers (my US colleagues particularly) with error messages like ‘one thing went unsuitable’ or just a clean display.
Some have taken to (different) social media platforms like Reddit to exclaim that that is really an enchancment to their lives. However right here within the UK, X is again (for me a minimum of) with its common mixture of Elon Musk ramblings, AI-generated memes and Fessholes.
This newest outage has fallen wanting the second earlier as we speak at round 10am ET / 2pm GMT, however it’s nonetheless fairly widespread. There’s nonetheless no official phrase from X on the reason for as we speak’s wobbles, however presumably Grok is engaged on it…
When did this newest X outage begin?
That is very a lot a world X / Twitter outage, with studies of issues climbing quick within the US and UK from round 10.50am ET / 2.50pm GMT on the positioning Downdetector.
They’ve simply hit a peak of 30,000 studies within the US, which is an enormous outage. Within the UK, studies have fallen previously hour, however are nonetheless hovering on the 4,700 mark.
So, what’s inflicting the issues? Whereas there’s been nothing official, some cybersecurity commentators counsel it could be a so-called DDOS (or Distributed Denial-of-Service) assaults, the place a flood of web site visitors overwhelms a server.
In different phrases, buckle up – as a result of this might final some time…
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‘One thing went unsuitable’
Ever the grasp of understatement, X is greeting many customers (my US colleagues particularly) with error messages like ‘one thing went unsuitable’ or just a clean display.
Some have taken to (different) social media platforms like Reddit to exclaim that that is really an enchancment to their lives. However right here within the UK, X is again (for me a minimum of) with its common mixture of Elon Musk ramblings, AI-generated memes and Fessholes.
This newest outage has fallen wanting the second earlier as we speak at round 10am ET / 2pm GMT, however it’s nonetheless fairly widespread. There’s nonetheless no official phrase from X on the reason for as we speak’s wobbles, however presumably Grok is engaged on it…
When did this newest X outage begin?
That is very a lot a world X / Twitter outage, with studies of issues climbing quick within the US and UK from round 10.50am ET / 2.50pm GMT on the positioning Downdetector.
They’ve simply hit a peak of 30,000 studies within the US, which is an enormous outage. Within the UK, studies have fallen previously hour, however are nonetheless hovering on the 4,700 mark.
So, what’s inflicting the issues? Whereas there’s been nothing official, some cybersecurity commentators counsel it could be a so-called DDOS (or Distributed Denial-of-Service) assaults, the place a flood of web site visitors overwhelms a server.
In different phrases, buckle up – as a result of this might final some time…
