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Twitter is having issues in NZ

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Re: Twitter is having issues in NZ

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Post by rasz »

nonfamous wrote: post #2

I usually live in the US, but I’ve been in Australia for the last couple of weeks on holidays. Twitter is unbearably slow here, and video on Twitter is basically unusable (most videos fail to load in the timeline). And this experience is the same using cellular and various WiFi sources, so it’s not an ISP problem.

Its Telstra problem. In AU they have data caps on internal traffic inside their shiny national fiberoptic network.

Re: Twitter is having issues in NZ

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Post by KyeRussell »

Robotbeat wrote: post #6
laidoffamazon wrote: post #3

Twitter going down permanently was weird hysteria. But Twitter just operating poorly - as it has for the past few weeks - reminds me of the failwhale era of a decade ago. For the current pace of product changes, I don't see it being a worthwhile trade off.

I think if the CEO hadn’t been waging culture war, the respectable opinion would be that this is fine temporarily as they get the totally new workforce and infrastructure situation sorted. In context with what really smart people were saying about how Twitter would respond to Musk’s changes, though, I think it’s a spectacular success. (Which doesn’t really change how I feel about the culture war stuff.)

It feels far too early to draw much of a conclusion. I’ve left stuff hanging around for years without it falling over, but not been happy about it. I’m sure we all have. The point is that eventually you need to touch it, and nobody knows how it works, and it’s covered in cobwebs. That sort of stuff just takes time to happen.

Re: Twitter is having issues in NZ

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Post by KyeRussell »

pigeoneater77 wrote: post #7
nonfamous wrote: post #2

I usually live in the US, but I’ve been in Australia for the last couple of weeks on holidays. Twitter is unbearably slow here, and video on Twitter is basically unusable (most videos fail to load in the timeline). And this experience is the same using cellular and various WiFi sources, so it’s not an ISP problem.

The post was about New Zealand. Internet speeds here are fortunately generally heaps better than in Australia

I think that OP is implying that it’s a Twitter regional infrastructure problem, in which case - and I’d happily be corrected on this by anyone that actually knows Twitter’s infra - I’d imagine that NZ and AU are largely intertwined.

I’m sure that if the take was “the internet here is too slow for video” the typical HN commenter would know that it’s not relevant to this thread. This is ignoring the fact that the typical Australian internet connection is more then capable of handling what OP is not able to do.

Re: Twitter is having issues in NZ

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Post by sundvor »

jerojero wrote: post #5

It might just be me but I've been experiencing problems here in Australia as well. Timeline not loading properly. I think they reduced the number of servers a week or so ago as part of the cost-saving measures. It probably doesn't affect the place where Musk lives but it does affect remote regions (which for these purposes, Australia and NZ are).

Confirmed still down in Australia two hours later. (I'm on the NBN, with Aussie).
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