Looking at DownDetector, I suspect a CloudFlare outage as there's some ominous climbing red lines for multiple services.
Currently it looks to me like X, Grok, CloudFlare and AWS are affected.
NobodyNada•1h ago
DownDetector gives you a graph of the number of people who googled "is XYZ service down" and clicked on a DownDetector link. It's a useful metric, but it also has error, because sometimes users blame the wrong service.
In this case, both AWS and Cloudflare had high-profile outages within the past few months. So a bunch of people tried to check their Twitter, got an error, and said "huh, I wonder if AWS is down again". Or during yesterday's Verizon outage, DownDetector also showed spikes on AT&T and T-Mobile, presumably from people who forgot what cellular provider they had, were roaming, or maybe were trying to call someone on another network.
It also doesn't help that they normalize the scale of their graphs on the front page. If you click them, you can see that 75k people googled "is X down", while only 200 people googled "is AWS down".
ndsipa_pomu•58m ago
I didn't realise that - thanks for the info. I actually found out just from a breaking news alert on the BBC which is unusual as I usually see tech news elsewhere first.
thejazzman•38m ago
Can we prepend the owner of every company moving forward?
rationalist•27m ago
I think you forgot the /s tag (especially since it is an editorialization by the BBC, not the HN submitor). But yeah, the author probably has a motive for doing that.
Hatrix•19m ago
That would be good for companies that replaced a well known brand name with a single letter.
nanochess•5m ago
I don't publish anymore in X, so I don't mind it. And by the number of points, I can see it is pretty obvious no one cares anymore. The owner is giving a great lesson on how to destroy a social network, while alienating the remaining users.
EricRiese•2m ago
"Well we brought it back up, but for some reason it's full of racist vitriol and CSAM now."
ndsipa_pomu•1h ago
Currently it looks to me like X, Grok, CloudFlare and AWS are affected.
NobodyNada•1h ago
In this case, both AWS and Cloudflare had high-profile outages within the past few months. So a bunch of people tried to check their Twitter, got an error, and said "huh, I wonder if AWS is down again". Or during yesterday's Verizon outage, DownDetector also showed spikes on AT&T and T-Mobile, presumably from people who forgot what cellular provider they had, were roaming, or maybe were trying to call someone on another network.
It also doesn't help that they normalize the scale of their graphs on the front page. If you click them, you can see that 75k people googled "is X down", while only 200 people googled "is AWS down".
ndsipa_pomu•58m ago