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Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by wut42 »

thecopy wrote: post #77
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?

Switch to the original timeline, not the algorithmic one.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by wut42 »

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.

This. I immediately checked my IRC/IM bots and other tools that uses the API, they still work perfectly. So it looks like it's a sort of crackdown against third-party clients, and not API wind-down or technical issue (why would a technical issue only block some?).

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by PixyMisa »

manholio wrote: post #66
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/

> 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…

No.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by Sebb767 »

philliphaydon wrote: post #91
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/

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?

And that outage was the first of its kind in a long time and made a lot of news. It's not like this is usual in any way.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by [deleted] »

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...

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Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by iainmerrick »

highwaylights wrote: post #103
philliphaydon wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Half an order of magnitude bigger, at most. A regional outage of that size is embarrassing whatever way you slice it. Leaving all that aside, he’s driving a massive subset of his users away at a time when he really needs all the users he can get. You can spin this however you like, this is not a good situation for him. He’s said as much outright and implied it repeatedly. Since this time last year he’s said that both…

Not to disagree with your general point, I just want to nitpick this:

Half an order of magnitude bigger, at most

I think you're overestimating Twitter and underestimating Facebook.

I don't know the best source for official stats, but a quick google suggests Twitter is ~300M users and Facebook is ~3B, so one order of magnitude.

And of course the new Twitter CEO used the interesting bargaining tactic of talking down his own purchase by implying many of those 300M users are bots... Joking aside, you could argue that very few of those 3B Facebook users are active, and you'd be right; but exactly the same can be said of Twitter and there's no good reason to think the ratio is any better or worse there.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by recuter »

input_sh wrote: post #104
recuter wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, RIP twitter I guess. Although strangely if I search the news archives for outages with date set to before 2022..

You get what? Anything close to that long? Don't leave me hanging! I did the same and found a Guardian article that claims no Twitter outage lasted even an hour since 2016, but I thought it was irrelevant because articles about outages aren't exactly top-notch in quality. Did you find anything better? If so, do share! I'd be happy to be proven wrong!

> I did the same and found a Guardian article that claims no Twitter outage lasted even an hour since 2016

Actual Guardian article from 2016 discussing twitter outage lasting more than one hour:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/19/twitter-d...

Amusing comments over there from readers.

You are right and I am wrong. And I'm sorry. RIP Twitter.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by omnibrain »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> its up and running well

I would from personal experience disagree on the "well" part.

I'm suddenly following accounts I recently unfollowed again. Previously blocked accounts show up. The search doesn't find stuff it used to find anymore - posts that are definitely not deleted because I can usually find them via other references.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by recuter »

esperent wrote: post #105
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..

Let's be real, if your "last straw" moment wasn't several weeks ago it's unlikely this is gonna be it. But if it is, shame on you. All the silencing of journalists, banning accounts for saying "mastodon", or saying anything negative about Tesla, or criticizing Musk in any way, that didn't do it. But now you have been mildly inconvenienced and it's the last straw. Really?

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Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by numpad0 »

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.

Twitter allowing ban evasion and discussions about it had been a real clever move IMO. Users make a lot of noises and calls for exodus, none working, because it always happens inside the very platform.
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