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X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. (htxt.co.za)

submitted 9 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The most illegal part of a DDoS is usually the hacking / exploiting of thousands or millions of devices to make them all request twitter.com

I'm not entirely sure what rules it would fall under if you somehow performed a DDoS using entirely your own hardware and Internet connections. It might even be legal, just against the ToS of basically every ISP. I'm pretty sure if Google or ChatGPT take down a site by sending too many crawlers there's no legal consequences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

There is also the Hug of Death, I don't think that's illegal