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Twitter's API is down?

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Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by input_sh »

recuter wrote: post #54
input_sh wrote: post #43

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/

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

16h is an awful lot for a social media site, even if region-specific.

Single digit number of hours happen from time to time, but double digits are not really a thing anymore. Maybe in early days of social media, not in the past decade.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by computerfriend »

naet wrote: post #42

Pretty sure my Twitter bot is still happily tweeting via API (on a periodic cron job, doesn't seem to have missed it's post schedule). I'm not at my computer right now but I'll check my logs later and see if I got any errors.

Same. The API seems fine, just specific applications that have had their access revoked.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by Lutger »

drstewart wrote: post #68
FranzFerdiNaN wrote: post #49

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It’s running well because the old guard built it so well. Musk threw them all out, so it will slowly but surely degrade. There was a reason Twitter had such a large workforce.

So under what conditions would you consider a company overstaffed?

I would say you are overstaffed if A) you can't afford them and / or B) you've grown so fast, you don't know how to make use of the staff you have. Perhaps there is a C) which is a variant of B) the business model you are running only requires so much staff and you hit a ceiling in growth.

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Post by input_sh »

rvz wrote: post #58
input_sh wrote: post #43

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/

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No, they happened. They didn't last a double digit number of hours though.

Not gonna say in decades, but in the past decade for sure.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by robga »

benatkin wrote: post #29
robga wrote: post #19

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Maybe Melon saw how nice Ivory is looking https://tapbots.com/ivory/ Tweetbot for Mastodon. “You’re either with us or against us”.

Hahaha first I've heard this nickname. My agua fresca would like a word with whoever came up with this.

I’m believe the full nickname is Melon Husk.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by thecopy »

sho wrote: 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 moved to Tweetbot a few weeks ago when using internal keywords to hide "X person liked...", "X person follows..." tweets stopped working.

Now it seems im forced back. ~50% of my feed was from people i dont follow.

Does anyone know how to hide those tweets on the timeline?

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Post by Lutger »

mnd999 wrote: post #51
Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #50

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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.

Trying to be the new Rupert Murdoch, but failing.

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Post by Scharkenberg »

philliphaydon wrote: post #30
minimaxir wrote: post #17

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The hard part for Twitter is figuring out who's left that can fix it.

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…

He haphazardly ordered turning off "bloated" microservices, including the one responsible for sending auth codes via SMS for 2FA... Learning through mistakes is a thing particularly for newbies, but a CEO should absolutely have a clue about not micromanaging, especially in areas he practically doesn't understand and after firing most people who do.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by SllX »

numpad0 wrote: post #69

User-compiled list of banned apps: https://twitter.com/takke/status/1613796340869496832 Edit: Direct link to Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O27Co27g2fWRon7gK79R...

Ironically I’m having trouble reading this because I’m on my phone and Twitter URLs go to Tweetbot. So I’m guessing that’s on the list.
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