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Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by philliphaydon »

input_sh wrote: post #43
philliphaydon wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Facebook had downtime on all services, globally... for like 7 hours 2021, facebook is how many orders of magnitude bigger than Twitter?

And a regional outage vs the internet claiming twitter would be offline completely?

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by natch »

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..

Elon is a fan of the chronological timeline, so I would take a pause there and consider. He even tweeted out instructions on how to switch to it and away from algorithmic.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by [deleted] »

SllX wrote: post #80
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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Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by numpad0 »

Hamuko wrote: post #37
kalleboo wrote: post #13

Since third-party clients don't make Twitter any ad revenue, I could see them making API access a feature of Blue in order to get revenue from those users.

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

Is that the Commonwealth and its major colonies…

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by susrev »

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…

I'm unsure if it is running as good as before. I have noticed more issues over the past week than I ever have using Twit.

Particularly, a nasty bug that keeps the timeline refreshing while scrolling and is constantly moving content around on the screen.

Curious if anyone else has run into something similar.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by natch »

numpad0 wrote: post #87
r721 wrote: post #20

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I use twitter.com in desktop browser, and chronological timeline is still there (accessible via "sparkle icon").

That’s chronological but still algorithmic.

Sure, technically, chronological ordering is an algorithm. I wonder what you would want.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by philliphaydon »

lexandstuff wrote: post #63
philliphaydon wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

This comment feels a bit out of place on a post about part of Twitter being down.

Currently it looks like 3rd party apps have been cut off, not the Twitter or the API being down. So I don't consider it out of place.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by manholio »

ponow wrote: post #84
manholio wrote: post #66

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> Is 16h of downtime acceptable for a $44b business? After a 70% reduction in headcount, is a 16 hour downtime acceptable in a 5% market? I'm going with yes, executives from all major corporations are itching to press that button if only they could get away with it. The problem with Twitter is not, was not, and will never be a technical one. It's a simple site with a simple tech stack, using standard technology to sc…

People choose to use social media, as they choose all media. People are individually responsible for the physical actions they make, even if a little bird told them what to do. It may be easier to control people by limiting what thoughts they're exposed to, but a people isn't free if that's done.

It's all fun and games until you are slain in the street because people chose to regard you as subhuman after a little bird told them so.

Disseminating politically extreme misinformation kills people - look no further than Russia, where a state run propaganda campaign has made people no more stupid or immoral than you or me support a vicious war of aggression against their neighbors.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by tehbeard »

jahnu wrote: post #86
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..

For a few days now on the iOS app I have "For You" and "Following" on the top and I can swipe between them, left and right. It has a tendency to keep switching back to the "For You" that I don't like but at least it's quick to switch back to who I'm actually following. Am I being A/B tested?

Silly peasant, stop fighting the algorithm and embrace being fed filtered garbage instead of something atleast temporally coherent... /s
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