Twitter Completely Down • Hacker News Board

Re: Twitter Completely Down

#31

Post by CD1212 » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 4:45 PM UTC

One great thing about this for me: it exposed a bug in my app which relied on twitter being up.

Re: Twitter Completely Down

#32

Post by MattRogish » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 4:45 PM UTC

I just ate lunch. It was sooo good! [Checked in to Shake Shack, NYC]

Re: Twitter Completely Down

#33

Post by pinko » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 4:45 PM UTC

dreadsword wrote: post #30

Its been ages since Twitter has had one of its famous fail whale outages.

Notably this outage lacks even a whale.

Re: Twitter Completely Down

#34

Post by kristofferR » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 4:47 PM UTC

jgrahamc wrote: post #11

x is down: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/x-is-down.html

Well, it is newsworthy at least.

Sure, being upset/getting angry just because of a little bit of Twitter downtime is stupid, but that doesn't take away from the fact that one of the biggest and most important discussion and communication channels the web has is completely down.

Re: Twitter Completely Down

#35

Post by jauer » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 4:47 PM UTC

aeurielesn wrote: post #10

Twitter Status - http://status.twitter.com/ No news at the status site either, that beats the purpose of having a dedicated status site.

The best part is their status site is powered by tumbler even though they acquired posterous.

Re: Twitter Completely Down

#36

Post by leot » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 4:47 PM UTC

Twitter is a protocol masquerading as an app.

Re: Twitter Completely Down

#37

Post by larrys » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 4:49 PM UTC

aeurielesn wrote: post #10

Twitter Status - http://status.twitter.com/ No news at the status site either, that beats the purpose of having a dedicated status site.

They just updated:

http://status.twitter.com/

Re: Twitter Completely Down

#38

Post by derrida » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 4:50 PM UTC

leot wrote: post #36

Twitter is a protocol masquerading as an app.

Free it now!

Re: Twitter Completely Down

#39

Post by jgrahamc » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 4:52 PM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #34

jgrahamc wrote: post #11

x is down: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/x-is-down.html

Well, it is newsworthy at least. Sure, being upset/getting angry just because of a little bit of Twitter downtime is stupid, but that doesn't take away from the fact that one of the biggest and most important discussion and communication channels the web has is completely down.

I don't believe it is newsworthy. In fact, it's sad that it is being written about because it shows the utter shallowness of what passes for 'Silicon Valley News' at the moment. And it's sad to see this as a 'top story' on Hacker News taking up space.

Re: Twitter Completely Down

#40

Post by dlokshin » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 4:52 PM UTC

jauer wrote: post #35

aeurielesn wrote: post #10

Twitter Status - http://status.twitter.com/ No news at the status site either, that beats the purpose of having a dedicated status site.

The best part is their status site is powered by tumbler even though they acquired posterous.

The even better part is that Tumblr is often down itself, which means that status.twitter probably has more downtime than www.twitter