So the little blue bird of hate has finally crashed and burned. I'm okay with that.
Twitter was down
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#102I hope Jack went rogue and nuked it after his most recent hot yoga vision.
That's the kind of shakeup we need in this world.
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#103I posted the question on Slack "How do you spread the word when Twitter goes down?" People thought that was so hilarious... until they realized Twitter was actually down. Honestly, "Hacker News" was my answer which seems to be effectively correct -- and today I learned about the existence of twitterstat.us!
https://downdetector.co.uk/status/twitter
is a pretty good resource too
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#104In a slightly better alternate universe it stays down.
I share your sentiment to a certain extent, but I believe Twitter is a necessary evil. There should be an alternative to main stream media for people.
I found Gab [0] to be quite a viable alternative to Twitter due to its decentralised nature thanks to Mastodon so that downtimes like this cannot happen on the platform.
[0] - https://gab.ai
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#105Ok, this is too many high-profile, apparently unrelated outages in the last month to be completely a coincidence. Hypotheses: 1) software complexity is escalating over time, and logically will continue to until something makes it stop. It has now reached the point where even large companies cannot maintain high reliability. 2) internet volume is continually increasing over time, and periodically we hit a point where…
Write a script to fire random events and you will notice they sometimes cluster in ways that look like a pattern.
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#106So storytime! I worked at Twitter as a contractor in 2008 (my job was to make internal hockey-stick graphs of usage to impress investors) during the Fail Whale era. The site would go down pretty much daily, and every time the ops team brought it back up, Twitter's VCs would send over a few bottles of really fancy imported Belgian beer (the kind with elaborate wire bottle caps that tell you it's expensive). I would in…
"I would intercept these rewards and put them in my backpack for the bus ride home, in order to avoid creating perverse incentives for the operations team. But did anyone call me 'hero'?"
Wait so you stole rewards for a team that was spending time (I assume extra or stressful) on something you didn't do or have any part in. And you want a cookie?
I mean I get it, the company was probably not great in it's infancy. But what?
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#107Down on a plain Thursday with no major news or anything , so definitely doesn't look like a infrastructure spike or anything. Could be bad deployment or someone decided to pull few plug(s)
plug pulled by "youknowwho"'s team
Re: Twitter was down
#108So storytime! I worked at Twitter as a contractor in 2008 (my job was to make internal hockey-stick graphs of usage to impress investors) during the Fail Whale era. The site would go down pretty much daily, and every time the ops team brought it back up, Twitter's VCs would send over a few bottles of really fancy imported Belgian beer (the kind with elaborate wire bottle caps that tell you it's expensive). I would in…
That’s hilarious. Reminds me of a clip from the show Silicon Valley.
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#109Re: Twitter was down
#110On the status posts in particular I really miss the ability to sort comments by new on this site.
Just last week I found a setting deep in my profile config that let me disable ‘recommended tweets first’ or similar. When it’s back up I can check the exact setting
I mean on Hacker News, not Twitter.