Twitter.com – Is Twitter Down?
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·March 10, 2025tkubacki
What are X/twitter alternatives ? I left twitter after recent Musk pro Russian statements.
rhet0rica
Your options are:
West Coast Liberal → https://bsky.app/
Bundesrepublik KDE → https://joinmastodon.org/
"I bet Mark Zuckerberg won't get any weirder" → https://www.threads.net/
kylehotchkiss
Hey now there are plenty of east coast liberals on Bluesky too
echelon
I appreciate the informal decision tree.
wstrange
BlueSky. Less algorithmic boosting and it allows you to curate your feed.
It's VC funded - so it remains to be seen how it evolves
davidw
I've been happy on BlueSky so far. It seems to be picking up a good variety of people, including journalists, and some interests of mine like cycling.
Narretz
Wdym with "curate your feed"? See only posts of people your follow? That's always been possible with Twitter.
jmuguy
You have control over what is suggested by the algo, and can make several different feeds - in addition to just a feed of your follows. Rather than whatever "For You" is doing on Twitter these days.
dgeiser13
Not after Twitter started forcing you to see accounts you don't follow.
hooverd
Yup. There's the basic chronological feed. There's a Discover and Popular with Friends feed. But, you can create your own feeds and/or subscribe to feeds that other people have created. You can have feeds for a specific topic or subculture. They can be manually curated or algorithmically; the idea is that can you subscribe to your own recommendation algorithm. They can be as simple or as complex as you'd like. Plus, you typically know who created a feed. Let's say you want to hear about AI news. There could be a curated AI, assuming someone cares about to garden it.
herrherrmann
Mastodon (open/distributed/Wild West) and Bluesky (commercial/probably ending up like X at some point).
malshe
I switched to Bluesky a few months ago and very happy with that decision
AntonyGarand
Mastodon and Bluesky are the main ones as far as I'm aware
hocuspocus
Bluesky is not bad if you're interested in tech and science.
kylehotchkiss
Those are the only two things I really wanted in a twitter replacement so I’ve been happy with it
hello_moto
Non-US govt and municipals are moving to bluesky
pacomerh
For me it began when he started suspending journalists or anyone who criticized him (so much for pro-free speech), lying about almost everything and still every day. He also started siding with racist commenters and white supremacists. And if that wasn't enough, the whole salute thing was disgusting and absolutely irresponsible. So yeah his pro Russian statements don't surprise me at all.
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williamsmj
His claim is that it's a DDOS attack.
Not my area of engineering, so forgive me, but: is an external DDOS a plausible threat for competently engineered public service in 2025? I kind of got the impression those were solved problems in practice?
jasonthorsness
It works fine for me, both twitter.com (which redirects to x.com) and x.com
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theandrewbailey
Why does HN sometimes de-duplicate submissions, but not others? This other submission is the exact same link, but 3 minutes earlier:
shrubble
It's giving me problems and has been very inconsistent for about 90 minutes to 2 hours at this point. I got a partial refresh of my feed, but a lot is not working. The Grok AI appears down as well.
echelon
I've fallen out of the habit of checking Twitter/X, but for some reason the notifications piqued my interest this morning.
I tried loading the messages around 9:30 AM ET, and none of the notification messages nor my timeline loaded. It distinctly felt like server issues.
Seems like they've been having issues all day?
Not envying their oncall engineers right now.
dmonitor
I see reports dating to back to around 4am. did the dst switch take it down?
hocuspocus
If it's really a DDoS attack, I assume the perpetrators picked the time most inconvenient to current employees, which I believe are mostly located in the Bay Area compared to pre-Elon years where Twitter had a more geographically distributed workforce.
Vixel
Good.
YetAnotherNick
Better link for tracking: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
adamc
No loss.
empath75
One of my first jobs was working at a fast food place, and my first night on the job, I was taking the trash out, and the thing tipped over, spilling it all over the parking lot, and I just said "fuck this" and went home and never came back. If I worked at Twitter right now, I'd be thinking about doing something like that again.
century19
I don’t think you are the hero in this story. Pretty terrible behavior.
mmooss
Did your co-workers have to clean it up?
rubi1945
X is moving to Cloudflare
Yeah, it's down. Musk should stop working remotely and get back to the office to fix it ASAP!