Disaster Twitter outage shuts down platform globally

Twitter goes down ahead of White House social media summit

The website going down happened ahead of President Donald Trump's social media summit at the White House.

www.newsweek.com

It started at the same time as Trump's "social media summit".

Someone verbally bitch slap me back into sanity because the tinfoil hatter in me wants to jump out the window, strip naked, and run in circles screaming the lizard alien/mole people war is upon us.

 

[Robot Teapot]

I actually quite like Twitter. Well, apart from the massive far-left bias on it. (Plz don't ban me)

 

[twistedpuppet]

Twitter is back, but oddly, there's no trending list on the sidebar. Not sure if it's just not back up or if it got removed.

 

[Pol Pots Pooter]

These down times are 100% because they're installing backdoors and spyware into shit. It's happened with FB/Insta/Cloudflare/Twitter/Reddit.

Does that mean we're all NSA agents now, or terrorists? Or both?

Anyways, back up now. Let the rampant speculation and flaming begin!

 

[JM 590]

Back when I used social media, Twitter was the one I got the least amount of engagement on. It really does give the sensation of just shouting into the void unless you're there to fight with retards.

 

[CatParty]

its back up.

 

[AF 802]

Jack Dorsey should just shut it down altogether.

 

[Pham]

Should I not use cloudflare dns if people think cloudflare is being back doored?

 

[pwnest injun]

Should I not use cloudflare dns if people think cloudflare is being back doored?

It's better to just remove any expectations of security or privacy.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Can it be permanent?

In all seriousness, Twitter seems like the biggest dead weight of all the social media platforms. Who even uses it any more? Unless you're an influencer on another platform, engagement is practically non-existent. The days of posting "Fuck Ponald Blumpft!" and getting 500 likes are over. It's basically just a place for Trump to shitpost in real time, trannies to screech into an ever decreasing void, and third-worlders to post videos of themselves dying and that's it. Cut it loose.

The Japanese.

 

[Some Manajerk]

SO any bets on Jake Alley being dead from withdrawal by the time it goes back up?

 

[A single cheeto]

So how many of our cows are going to scream that Twatter being down was the same as being silenced? I'm better at least Becky or Jake will.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

The Japanese.

Fair enough. Don't they still use Yahoo and internet explorer a lot too?

 

[V0dka]

Can it be permanent?

In all seriousness, Twitter seems like the biggest dead weight of all the social media platforms. Who even uses it any more? Unless you're an influencer on another platform, engagement is practically non-existent. The days of posting "Fuck Ponald Blumpft!" and getting 500 likes are over. It's basically just a place for Trump to shitpost in real time, trannies to screech into an ever decreasing void, and third-worlders to post videos of themselves dying and that's it. Cut it loose.

I seriously wonder, if reddit and twitter just went down one day forever, what the fuck would those people do? I'm sure some people would just kill themselves.

 

[HeyYou]

Fair enough. Don't they still use Yahoo and internet explorer a lot too?

They were behind on smartphones, too, they used flip phones for ages. For being the subject of tons of jokes that they were going to take over the world by being tech savvy, they are actually remarkably slow to adopt new tech.

 

[Wraith]

Somebody check to see of Spoony actually had his heart attack.

 

[RG 448]

We could solve the world's overpopulation in minutes if we shut down the Internet for a couple of hours.

The internet prevents people from having real sex though.

 

[CheezzyMach]

I seriously wonder, if reddit and twitter just went down one day forever, what the fuck would those people do? I'm sure some people would just kill themselves.

They'd all just move to Facebook/Mastodon.

Same as Tumbler going Defcon Red on it's porn didn't kill it's awful community they just left to make Twitter even shittier.

 

[Chichan]

The Japanese.

Also lots of Arabs and blacks.

 

[moocow]

These down times are 100% because they're installing backdoors and spyware into shit. It's happened with FB/Insta/Cloudflare/Twitter/Reddit.

Hell I'm surprised they bothered with Reddit. Their fucking *front* door is wide open to the feds. They publish an annual "transparency report" boasting of their cooperation with authorities when they come knocking.

 

[casE sensiTive]

I misread it as outrage and wasn't surprised.