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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by photon12 »

mikebonnell wrote: post #97

Twitter Support just posted: "Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences. We’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed." https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/163279294226274713...

Are they going to put "fired the people who used to enforce our change control procedures" in the post-mortem?

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by TillE »

bongobingo1 wrote: post #96
azangru wrote: post #22

Their website is broken for normal users. Try visiting anyone's profile page over the web — you'll get a 467 error [0] e.g. Elon: https://twitter.com/elonmusk

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That's what gets me about Elon more than anything. It's not the substance of his politics, it's that it's all so shallow, so unoriginal.

There are a million interesting discussions to be had in the world today, but he's stuck on mediocre Reddit shitposting from like 2012.

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Post by shadowgovt »

jeffbee wrote: post #75
shadowgovt wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Normally, this solution works great. At Twitter's scale with the number of API users they had, I can't imagine how they'd filter the signal out of the noise. This is very much a "someone would have had to know we're using our own API to avoid this disaster" scenario, which is an institutional knowledge problem. The kind of problem that gets hard to solve when XX% of your workforce suddenly left to seek new opportunit…

Sorry no. It is not an oral history problem. You simply group the stats by caller. “At Twitter scale” implies they already have this dashboard.

Ah, good point. Twitter should have been the largest caller.

That 467 error code suggests to me something else is going on and Twitter is emitting the wrong error message (467 isn't a standard HTTP, so I'm wondering if something lower-level emitted a 467 error, it was misinterpreted as an HTTP status, and the error string chooser logic is giving that API access error message due to fall-through).

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by piqi »

sigmar wrote: post #109
systemvoltage wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you just have a gut feeling that they are being abused? I thought the crowd that didn't like working there, left.

Did you see the photo of the employee sleeping on the floor? I'd link it but twitter is down.

She was fired not long after that all-nighter.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by tayo42 »

Gabriel_Martin wrote: post #38

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twitter is only important if your stuck in the bubble of twitter people. Tons of people dont use twitter, let alone even write on there. to get even like 1000 replies is still an insignificant amount, even though it feels like a lot. there are 300million people in just the US. thinking twitter replies are meaningful or represent enough people to have discourse is disconnected from the real world.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

sigmar wrote: post #109
systemvoltage wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you just have a gut feeling that they are being abused? I thought the crowd that didn't like working there, left.

Did you see the photo of the employee sleeping on the floor? I'd link it but twitter is down.

> Did you see the photo of the employee sleeping on the floor?

I’ve done this. I had lots of fun—everyone, from the CEO down, was crunching—and became financially independent after it.

It’s usually a sign of under-resourcing. But almost every start-up experiencing unexpected growth should be ready for it. It’s unusual at Twitter’s scale, but closed to mismanagement than abuse.

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