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Re: Twitter was down

#21

Post by dewey » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 7:08 PM UTC

It has been a long time since I've seen the equivalent of the fail whale on Twitter. It was a weekly occurrence back in the days.

Re: Twitter was down

#22

Post by dewey » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 7:09 PM UTC

gnicholas wrote: post #19

I first noticed the outage about 10 mins ago in Safari (Mac). It repeatedly gave me errors, even though Brave (Mac) was working fine. My iPhone app also worked fine (and appears to still be working). Why would one browser work but another not work, on the same computer at the same IP? The only difference is the account I'm logged in through (personal/work).

You probably just hit different load balancers with your different browser sessions.

Re: Twitter was down

#23

Post by moate » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 7:09 PM UTC

rootforce wrote: post #15

abadabadingdong wrote: post #5

I wonder how many conspiracies this single outage will trigger.

Theory: The internet is really just a series of green tubes underground and the last earthquake knocked out the primary plumber named Mario.

My theory: The internet in fact IS a big truck, and it got a flat tire.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by maemilius » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 7:09 PM UTC

anonymousjunior wrote: post #2

the internet is just falling apart these days

The internet is held together with pixie dust and prayers (sometimes duct tape and occasionally spit and rust).

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by lukey_q » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 7:09 PM UTC

A lot of high-profile outages recently. Can't actually remember the last time Twitter went fully down. Have to confess I immediately assumed an issue with my own connection, even though every other site is working.

Unrelated, but for some reason the phrase "I have no mouth and I must scream" just popped into my head

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by focuser » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 7:10 PM UTC

yup, What's worse than releasing a product on twitter and found it down a few minutes later...

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 7:10 PM UTC

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Re: Twitter was down

#28

Post by Kye » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 7:11 PM UTC

jbverschoor wrote: post #17

What’s the fallback for twitter if twitter is down, or worse: stops

Mastodon

I started a thread for sharing instances: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20414359

Re: Twitter was down

#29

Post by iamnotacrook » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 7:11 PM UTC

jbverschoor wrote: post #17

What’s the fallback for twitter if twitter is down, or worse: stops

Just threatening to rape random women in the street from the safety of a moving car?

Re: Twitter was down

#30

Post by aphextim » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 7:11 PM UTC

Call me a conspiracy theorist but seems odd the timing of this at the same time Trump is having his "Twitter Summit".

Then again things have been going down over the past two weeks so it's probably just coincidence.