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
Works fine.
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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.
That's great that it worked out for you.. That twitter employee wasn't so lucky... she was fired last week:
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3876505-twitter-employ...
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#164Speculation is that t.co link shortener service is broke : https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1632788892599586816 > The Twitter outage seems to be around a critical piece of infrastructure: the Twitter link shortener. > Every link on Twitter has been shortened to a t.co link. Only Twitter’s systems know where the link goes > If these systems ever go down, its link rot at scale
> If these systems ever go down, its link rot at scale Only if one's mental model is that t.co links were ever permanent. They're privately-owned obfuscator links. Unless someone in the wild was building a mirror mapping, they were always doomed and never to be trusted; they knocked the "U" right out of the "URL."
It doesn’t matter what my mental model is if I’m trying to follow links posted by someone else.
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#165Twitter 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?
Followed swiftly by: "We apologize again for the fault in the service. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked."
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At this rate it’ll be Reddit-tier by EOY
Reddit is fine? Not sure what this means…
I mean, reddit certainly has more downtime that twitter, historically over the last say 5 years.
At least once a week i'm met with the 'trippin' out snoo for a few minutes.
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#167In case people are wondering what this is about: All links and images are not working on twitter right now. Seems like they accidentally included their own services in the api blocklist? Sending best of luck to the engineers. The whole twitter saga has given me a good chunk of valuable "lesson learned" over the last weeks and months.. so thanks for that.
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#169There 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 s…
I think 3 is happening but the thing is that can this HC-twitter build knowledge and code back so that site functions stay about same before users leave is the real battle.
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#170This is actually funny. Just this weekend I was talking to another engineer friend of mine, and we were taking bets as to how long it would be before twitter went down for the last time. We felt bad for the engineers that are still there, and were actually surprised it's stayed up this long, with all the knowledge that walked out the door. Basic stuff like "where are our servers actually located". I guess the folks t…
I would say it’s just H1B, hard to jump ship when you are on such a tight window
Harder in the current economy, when everyone else is doing layoffs.