Twitter Completely Down
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#52Twitter is a protocol masquerading as an app.
Conversely, this has always been my complaint against the general hoopla and bandwagonning around Twitter -- they didn't do anything technically innovative. When they first started generating buzz, I instantly thought, "Oh, did they create a new messaging protocol that is universally accessible, redundant and easy to use? That's killer!" But, that was not the case. Yes, they had a good idea and executed very well, bu…
People like to chat with other people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cb_simulator
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#53Twitter is down? Now where am I supposed to complain about twitter being down?
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#54Twitter is a protocol masquerading as an app.
Conversely, this has always been my complaint against the general hoopla and bandwagonning around Twitter -- they didn't do anything technically innovative. When they first started generating buzz, I instantly thought, "Oh, did they create a new messaging protocol that is universally accessible, redundant and easy to use? That's killer!" But, that was not the case. Yes, they had a good idea and executed very well, bu…
99,9% of people doesn't care at all about how technically innovative something is, they only care about how useful it is. And Twitter is incredibly useful.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twitter Site Issue 17 seconds ago Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.
My favorite part is the Tweet-Button with zero tweets.
It has 56 tweets now...perhaps the outage is somewhat intermittent?
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If a large manufacturer had a fire in their facility, it would certainly be industry news. This seems like a similar situation.
This is more like a large manufacturer having a power outage. A fire would destroy machinery or stock. Nothing's getting lost here, something's just unavailable.
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#57Always fun when you're developing against an API, and then have to perform a frantic investigation to work out if your latest code change broke everything ... or it's just the API endpoint itself.
This is what unit testing is for
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#58https://mobile.twitter.com/ is working just fine.
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#59Twitter is down? Now where am I supposed to complain about twitter being down?
Sounds like you just invented a new product: XIsDown.com, where not only do you get notified that X is down, you get to whine about it with other people.
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#60I think this is another good example of how we as an industry are still unable to adequately assess risk properly. I'm fairly certain that the higher-ups in Twitter weren't told "We have pretty good failover protection, but there is a small risk of catastrophic failure where everything will go completely down." Whoever was in charge of disaster recovery obviously didn't really understand the risk. Just like the recen…
> I'm fairly certain that the higher-ups in Twitter weren't told "We have pretty good failover protection, but there is a small risk of catastrophic failure where everything will go completely down." Whoever was in charge of disaster recovery obviously didn't really understand the risk.
Is this really a valid conclusion to come to at this point? I expect downtime in any service I operate. It's just how the world works. Does that mean I don't understand the risks and am misleading the board?