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X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. (htxt.co.za)
submitted 6 hours 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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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 39 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Everyone strives for 5 9s, but musk aims for two 8s.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 1 points 43 minutes ago

Don't forget the 14 words! Someone screenshotted this at just the right time:

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I don't get it

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I don't know the 5 9s reference, but the two 8s is 88, a Nazi dog whistle for Heil Hitler, as H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.

[–] niartenyaw@midwest.social 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago)

5 9s means 99.999% uptime, which translates to a site only being down for ~0.86 seconds per day. This is the golden standard for online services

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh okay, thank you ☺️

[–] massacre@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

I see what you did there....

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 hours ago

We don't have 5 9s, but we do have 9 5s.