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Twitter(X) Is Down

41 points by bakigul ↗ HN
https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

19 comments

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ivanmontillam
Where does one go to complain that X is down when X itself is gone?
alyxya
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.
jpmcglone
Sometimes more people in the kitchen is worse
angoragoats
Nice. I hope it stays down; we’d all be better off.
bijant
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
victor5
my usual first habit to check if it down is go to twitter.. now twitter is down.
rsynnott
Yes, why not go live in this guy's moon city, what could go wrong.
newguytony
Time to fire some more engineers and replace them with Grok.
willquack
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?
xp84
Yes, I think we’d all benefit from that perspective. Of course, the revenue implications for the ownership of one of these pointless brain rot factories being down for a half hour are enormous. That’s a little notable but only for their shareholders.
Muaz_Ashraf
Yes I was checking my tweets and suddenly it was down also in Youtube no video was playing.