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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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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

My government emergency alerts :(

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago

I actually emailed my local National Weather Service station awhile back asking if they’d post on Mastodon and even offered them a BlueSky invite and they wrote back saying only Twitter and Facebook were allowed and they’d be everywhere if it was approved by higher ups.

Someone made a BlueSky bot a few months ago for NWS notices and I’m pretty sure they covered every local one. I remember the person who made it asking people to request any missing stations. Not sure if there’s a Mastodon equivalent but you could use a bridge. It won’t help with transit delays or other local government announcements but the weather service stuff is available (via an AtProto <-> ActivityPub bridge if nothing else; it’s not like you interact with the posts so it’d be ideal for a bridge).

[–] gigglybastard@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Make a bot that listens to those and posts them here.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

It’s behind a paywall and I’m not paying that Nazi.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

Or on Blue Sky or Mastadon

Hell reach put to your reps and tell them that they should have a Blue Sky and Mastodon for if something like this happens in the future.

Ain't no better time than now due to the Twitter outage.