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Musk says X hit by major cyberattack
AFP, Published on 11/03/2025
» SAN FRANCISCO - Elon Musk said X was hit Monday by a major cyberattack, raising questions as to whether the politically divisive billionaire is being targeted or his decision to gut staff at what was once Twitter is haunting the social network.
Twitter service stumbles as paying users get more room
AFP, Published on 09/02/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO - Thousands of Twitter users on Wednesday reported problems using the platform as the Elon Musk-owned social network began letting paying users post tweets as long as 4,000 characters.
Microsoft users kicked out of apps during global outage
AFP, Published on 25/01/2023
» PARIS - US tech giant Microsoft said on Wednesday it had suffered a global outage that limited access to software including Outlook and Teams for several hours.
Facebook grapples with another global outage
AFP, Published on 09/10/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Friday said users around the world again had problems accessing its services for hours due to a tweak of its system, just days after a massive outage caused in a similar fashion.
Facebook fights global outage and whistleblower revelations
AFP, Published on 05/10/2021
» WASHINGTON - Facebook battled dueling crises on Monday as it tried to fix a large-scale outage of its dominant social network and fought against a whistleblower's damning revelations.
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by widespread outage
AFP, Published on 05/10/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of people as users flocked to other networks to sound off.
Major banks, airlines report online outages
AFP, Published on 17/06/2021
» SYDNEY - Major banks and airlines in Australia and the United States suffered brief online outages Thursday, with several blaming an "external provider" for the disruption.
Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger down in major outage
AFP, Published on 20/03/2021
» PARIS: Social media platforms Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger all went down in a major outage at around 1730 GMT on Friday, according to the tech monitoring website Downdetector.
Google services down for users around the world
AFP, Published on 20/08/2020
» SAN FRANCISCO - Popular Google services including Gmail and Drive were down for many users around the world on Thursday, with the US technology giant telling affected people they were "aware of a service disruption."
Twitter experiences brief outage
AFP, Published on 12/07/2019
» WASHINGTON: Twitter was once again available Thursday after the messaging service went down for about an hour in several spots around the world.