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Re: Twitter Is Down Globally

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Post by sillysaurusx »

It's interesting seeing the predictions come true. I was slightly nervous when Elon fired 90% of twitter staff and the site kept working. If stuff never broke, then empirically, firing 90% of your staff seems to be a good idea.

But now stuff is breaking each week, and it's evident that maybe it wasn't the best idea.

Re: Twitter Is Down Globally

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Post by lanternfish »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #2

Symptom: you can't see the timeline. It shows "welcome to twitter!". Search works half-ass-ly ("top" works, but not "live"). You can still read specific tweet or someone's profile.

I can't tell if new tweets are populating, I can't find any that are newer than the outage.

Edit: they are, #TwitterDown is trending

Re: Twitter Is Down Globally

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Post by yoelo »

Apart from this, that has left the timeline completely broken, has anyone else noticed that the timeline on mobile doesn't auto-update anymore? It's often out of date and I have to refresh it manually, which I didn't use to. Maybe a hardcore measure to save server capacity?

Re: Twitter Is Down Globally

#8

Post by thrdbndndn »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #3

It's interesting seeing the predictions come true. I was slightly nervous when Elon fired 90% of twitter staff and the site kept working. If stuff never broke, then empirically, firing 90% of your staff seems to be a good idea. But now stuff is breaking each week, and it's evident that maybe it wasn't the best idea.

Twitter ran pretty bad even before Musk though.

As a Twitter addict, I can remember at least 5 times total outages within 2 years before Musk took over.

There are also some serious privacy accidents that surprisingly never got any attention in Western.

For example, about 3 years ago, Twitter bugged that everyone's private lists (titles, descriptions) are publicly visible for at least half a day. It was a huge shit storm in Japanese communities but I can't find any article mentioning it in English media.

Re: Twitter Is Down Globally

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Post by vshade »

yoelo wrote: post #7

Apart from this, that has left the timeline completely broken, has anyone else noticed that the timeline on mobile doesn't auto-update anymore? It's often out of date and I have to refresh it manually, which I didn't use to. Maybe a hardcore measure to save server capacity?

I noticed this on my android phone, but my iPad seems to be working fine.

Re: Twitter Is Down Globally

#10

Post by sillysaurusx »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #8
sillysaurusx wrote: post #3

It's interesting seeing the predictions come true. I was slightly nervous when Elon fired 90% of twitter staff and the site kept working. If stuff never broke, then empirically, firing 90% of your staff seems to be a good idea. But now stuff is breaking each week, and it's evident that maybe it wasn't the best idea.

Twitter ran pretty bad even before Musk though. As a Twitter addict, I can remember at least 5 times total outages within 2 years before Musk took over. There are also some serious privacy accidents that surprisingly never got any attention in Western. For example, about 3 years ago, Twitter bugged that everyone's private lists (titles, descriptions) are publicly visible for at least half a day. It was a huge shit st…

Well, hopefully they stop breaking “the entire reason people come to twitter”. At least when tweeting broke last week we could still scroll the timeline.

Thanks for pointing out that privacy blunder. I hadn’t heard of that. It’s interesting that stories like that end up spreading in the east but not in the west.

How long were those 5 total outages? I wonder if this one will be average.

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