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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by aniforprez »

nkozyra wrote: post #63
billti wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> half the time stuff isn't loading at all or is broken in obvious, overt ways I use the app for a couple hours a day (according to my iPhone weekly reports), and have barely noticed any degradation since "the takeover". (Notwithstanding the obvious outage happening currently). There's been a few minor glitches for sure, but then what large service is immune? Facebook, Exchange, AWS, etc. have all had notable outages…

> Maybe you're trying to do something more advanced than me, or are using a less reliable platform somehow, but generally I find all the "Twitter is so dead" talk being confirmation bias from folks that really want it to fail in light of recent changes. In my ideal world, Twitter - or something similar - succeeds. I don't care much about the politics of the ownership because that's generally going to be an iffy subje…

I can corroborate. Videos struggle to load, timeline doesn't refresh unless you pull down multiple times, my current position gets lost multiple times forcing me to scroll down and then scroll back up, tweets showing up multiple times, many more ads than before and so on

It's really been kind of miserable to use the app and I only open it once or twice a day. It had issues before but never all at once like this

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by marcosdumay »

jmull wrote: post #120

https://twitter.com Is down too, at this moment.

Wow, I have never seen the Twitter front-page before.

What a colossal piece of shit. Everything there is information-free and radicalized. The only maybe useful thing is the result of some game, that I assume it's soccer. (But British soccer, why would I care about British soccer? The rest of the page is localized into Brazil.)

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by it_citizen »

u320 wrote: post #35

The fun part is that the CEO is on Twitter as this happens, arguing about COVID.

When I checked this morning, he was busy posting borderline sexist dad jokes: (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632574090216103937)

I still don't understand why every fifth post in my feed is an Elon tweet, I don't even follow him. I could block him but I find it interesting to see how much of his content is pushed toward me who hasn't asked for it.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by numpad0 »

PSA: Mastodon, Misskey, Nostr, Bluesky exists now.

Just top 3 Mastodon instances(mastodon.social, pawoo.net, mstdn.jp) collectively has > 2mil users, same level as Twitter in 2008. Misskey, an ActivityPub/Mastodon compatible server software, now has >10K users. Nostr isn't much, Bluesky is still invite only and had just went past 2k registered, but those are all available options for direct substitutes to Twitter in case anyone still in need of a legacy twitterform social media.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by not_a_shill »

jedberg wrote: post #68
renewiltord wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where did you land on the bets? It appears that when Twitter goes down, its engineers were indispensable but when it's up, it's because the engineers foresaw this. Given those factors, how long it stays up must be an interesting combination of how indispensable the engineers made themselves vs how much foresight they had.

I know some of the former Twitter engineers, and they were great engineers. I'm sure they built a fairly resilient system. But at the scale and complexity, eventually you hit an unforeseen error that requires some institutional knowledge to fix, and it's doubtful they still have that, unless the ex-engineers loved the product so much they are willing to take phone calls from the people that are left and point them in…

>I don't think we landed on a time frame. I'm actually surprised it stayed up this long.

How much to get in on this? Seems like free money if you thought the time frame was that early.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by olliecornelia »

d23 wrote: post #148
TillE wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's even worse than that. It's divorced, misogynistic, unfunny facebook dad memes too [1]. [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632574090216103937

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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by bradwood »

jurassicfoxy wrote: post #162
Zetice wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is fine? Not sure what this means…

Reddit crashes almost weekly it seems. Search is completely broken. The site's UI (new, not old.reddit) is truly atrocious.

And when it's not crashed it's slow as cold shit.
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