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Re: Twitter was down

#151

Post by paxys » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:49 PM UTC

There were many different hypotheses on the outcome of Elon firing 80%+ of Twitter employees:

1. The site would crash and burn the next day.

2. Nothing would change. All those engineers were anyways just sitting around.

3. There would be no immediate impact (servers can run by themselves after all), but the site would slowly degrade over time as institutional knowledge around maintenance, upkeep and all the various system quirks was gone.

We are now seeing #3 play out in front of us.

Re: Twitter was down

#152

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:50 PM UTC

O__________O wrote: post #84

Worth noting Twitter’s status page claims it is “operational” and no events are listed under history section for past 180-days, which is obviously wrong: - https://status.twitter.com/ * Not to mention the SSL certificate appears to be expired too. ———- EDIT-01: Appears there’s a status page just for the API: - https://api.twitterstat.us/ EDIT-02: Wow, Twitter is using Twitter to post status updates: - https://twitter…

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Re: Twitter was down

#153

Post by MrOwnPut » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:50 PM UTC

runarberg wrote: post #136

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Please don’t do that. You deserve better as a worker. If a company is unable to function without infringing on the free time of their workers, that company should not exist.

I believe GP said he had fun. People should be allowed to work how they want to, they have the freedom (especially in this industry) to go elsewhere.

I've pulled late nights, they bought us pizza and gave us a half day later. Sometimes you have to put in work during critical times.

It's certainly not construction work anyway, people are kinda soft here sometimes.

Re: Twitter was down

#154

Post by enumjorge » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:50 PM UTC

favaq wrote: post #134

Not that I particularly like Elon but people are now making a big deal out of every twitter outage as if twitter didn't spend down half of the time before Elon bought it.

Twitter had issues early on, but before Musk bought them they definitely did not have outages half the time.

Re: Twitter was down

#155

Post by CamperBob2 » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:50 PM UTC

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...

We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences.

This person missed their calling at the State Department.

Re: Twitter was down

#156

Post by thepasswordis » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:50 PM UTC

Surely this will be the end of twitter forever!

for reference: I see absolutely none of the things anybody is saying they are seeing as errors. Twitter works exactly as it ever has for me.

Re: Twitter was down

#157

Post by Pete-Codes » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:51 PM UTC

No bio links work for me

Re: Twitter was down

#158

Post by snwfog » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:51 PM UTC

If you like Tweetdeck and Reddit, checkout rdddeck [0].

[0] https://rdddeck.com/

Re: Twitter was down

#159

Post by paxys » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:51 PM UTC

photon12 wrote: post #111

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?

I'm gonna go ahead and say the "post mortem" will involve finger pointing and Elon firing more engineers.

Re: Twitter was down

#160

Post by rokizero » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:51 PM UTC

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

Is there any information on the 467 error? Doesn't appear to be standard. Any ideas or other companies using 467?