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Re: Twitter down on web and mobile

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Post by ricksplat » Tue, Jan 19, 2016, 9:57 AM UTC

soci wrote: post #8

Not so long ago Twitter outages used to happen every now and then. It's quite interesting to see how now everybody expects it to be running 24/7.

Ah yes "the fail whale" was a common and much loved feature of day to day twife :-)

Re: Twitter down on web and mobile

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Post by airza » Tue, Jan 19, 2016, 9:57 AM UTC

soci wrote: post #8

Not so long ago Twitter outages used to happen every now and then. It's quite interesting to see how now everybody expects it to be running 24/7.

I mean, one part of me has worked on the backend of uber-high-bandwidth computing services and understands that there is no analogue to performance at that scale, and the other part is like "IT PUTS WORDS THAT PEOPLE POSTED ON A BUNCH OF PAGES, YOU CAN IMPLEMENT THE CORE FUNCTIONALITY IN AN AFTERNOON."

So I guess I kinda get it.

Re: Twitter down on web and mobile

#13

Post by planetjones » Tue, Jan 19, 2016, 10:02 AM UTC

I don't think this is going to help their share price!

Re: Twitter down on web and mobile

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Post by anacleto » Tue, Jan 19, 2016, 10:09 AM UTC

planetjones wrote: post #13

I don't think this is going to help their share price!

Don't you say?

Re: Twitter down on web and mobile

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Post by poooogles » Tue, Jan 19, 2016, 10:14 AM UTC

Wonder what's caused the outage, they're leveraging Mesos/Aurora pretty heavily AFAIK which is what I'm moving towards so would rather it wasn't something on that side of things.