Twitter is down • Hacker News Board

quantumwoke wrote: post #10

I thought Twitter was still up as my feed was loading. Looks like it's restricted to viewing user profiles. Maybe there will be a brief uptick in productivity during the outage :).

User profiles _sometimes_ load, indeed. Edit: and tweeting actually works

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Post by kaushalmodi » Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 2:24 PM UTC

k_ wrote: post #9

kaushalmodi wrote: post #4

And this news is HN worthy?

It could become one, depending on why twitter is down or how long it stays down. But yeah, nothing much to say or show for now.

Right, I would love to read such posts with the forensics on what happened. But just 3-word phrase titled "posts" with zero-content should be discouraged from floating to the HN front-page.. otherwise this would be just another "reddit".

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Post by the-dude » Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 2:25 PM UTC

FLUX-YOU wrote: post #2

A sigh of relief as Trump cannot tweet.

Sad!

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Post by k_ » Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 2:25 PM UTC

FLUX-YOU wrote: post #2

A sigh of relief as Trump cannot tweet.

Well, sadly, he can. Loading profiles sometimes works, and posting tweets works too: https://twitter.com/_kLabz_/status/986248991133392896 (don't mind the account or the tweet itself, I'm not after any exposure)

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Post by varjag » Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 2:27 PM UTC

Any chance it is some domino effect from today's Russian carpetban? Twitter is integrated in their law enforcement intercept there.