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Re: Twitter's API is down?

#51
post #37

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It'd be very Elon-like to ignore that there are countries other than US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the UK.

Given that his entire [claimed] rationale is “restoring free speech in America” you can scratch countries 2-6 off that list.

The rationale is to control the narrative and align Twitter’s politics with his own. It’s just like the hundred other rich dudes who bought newspapers over the years.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

#52
post #47

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Australia and NZ experienced a 16h outage last week. Was there someone to fix it eventually? Sure. Is 16h of downtime acceptable for a $44b business? I'm going with no. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2023/01/twitter-down-australia/

They've likely learned a lot from that incident already. No, Twitter isn't gonna "blow up" overnight. That's nonsense.

If they hadn't purged the entire staff they wouldn't need to relearn the same lessons

Re: Twitter's API is down?

#53
post #28

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I wish Twitterific made a Mastodon client, its great UX compared to the official Twitter app is one of the major reasons I was still using Twitter. And events like this shows they shouldn't put all their eggs in one basket.

The makers of Tweetbot are making a Mastodon client! https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/29/tapbots-ivory-mastodon-...

maybe this is the culprit then

Re: Twitter's API is down?

#54

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I disagree, the day he took over twitter people were saying "it wont be up this weekend" "it will be down in a week" "it will be offline in 2 weeks"... yet the reality is, its up and running well. The system is running as good as before. The only thing I've noticed is theres more ad's than usual. ---- Edit: Currently there isn't any outage of Twitter as far as anyone knows. It looks like 3rd party apps have been kick…

Australia and NZ experienced a 16h outage last week. Was there someone to fix it eventually? Sure. Is 16h of downtime acceptable for a $44b business? I'm going with no. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2023/01/twitter-down-australia/

I take it no such outages occurred in the prior history of twitter?

Re: Twitter's API is down?

#55
post #18

This might be the last straw. I flat out refuse to use their horrible app with its nonsense algorithmic timeline. Give it a few hours to see if it's permanent but if it is, I expect a huge wave of new mastodon users..

I’m the same, I don’t really mind ads but I do not like the “algorithmic” timeline. Will find a way that doesn’t involve using their official iOS app, even if it means falling back to mobile web

Re: Twitter's API is down?

#56
post #5

Same thing is happening with Twitteriffic - I’m assuming Twitter’s API is down, or worse: the new owner has decided that 3rd party clients are not desirable anymore

I don't post to Twitter, but I still sometimes use Twitterrific to read it since not everybody I enjoy there has successfully moved to Mastodon. (Although tbh it is only William Gibson, David Frum, and Grady Booch that keep me reading Twitter.) I too thought the 'garch might have abruptly pulled the plug on the API. But then, I installed the Twitter iOS app and tried that, and it emitted a cascade of error screens, t…

FWIW, William Gibson is on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@GreatDismal

Re: Twitter's API is down?

#57
post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Australia and NZ experienced a 16h outage last week. Was there someone to fix it eventually? Sure. Is 16h of downtime acceptable for a $44b business? I'm going with no. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2023/01/twitter-down-australia/

They've likely learned a lot from that incident already. No, Twitter isn't gonna "blow up" overnight. That's nonsense.

> No, Twitter isn't gonna "blow up" overnight. That's nonsense.

It's also not something any of the parent comments claimed.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

#58

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I disagree, the day he took over twitter people were saying "it wont be up this weekend" "it will be down in a week" "it will be offline in 2 weeks"... yet the reality is, its up and running well. The system is running as good as before. The only thing I've noticed is theres more ad's than usual. ---- Edit: Currently there isn't any outage of Twitter as far as anyone knows. It looks like 3rd party apps have been kick…

Australia and NZ experienced a 16h outage last week. Was there someone to fix it eventually? Sure. Is 16h of downtime acceptable for a $44b business? I'm going with no. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2023/01/twitter-down-australia/

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Re: Twitter's API is down?

#59
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish Twitterific made a Mastodon client, its great UX compared to the official Twitter app is one of the major reasons I was still using Twitter. And events like this shows they shouldn't put all their eggs in one basket.

The makers of Tweetbot are making a Mastodon client! https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/29/tapbots-ivory-mastodon-...

I'm looking forward to trying it when more Testflight spots open up, it will be a day one purchase when released.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

#60

I noticed an error on Twitter an hour ago. It looks like there are old school radio buttons peeking out from behind Twitter-style checkboxes that are (I think) supposed to cover them entirely: https://imgur.com/a/HCWmfgS

Would be interesting to inspect element and see if there are new radio options.
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