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Twitter experiences longest global outage in years

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Re: Twitter experiences longest global outage in years

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Post by throwaway787544 »

bob1029 wrote: post #21

Hypothetically, what do we think the effect would be if twitter went down and never came back?

Users'd probably just join Reddit. It's full of snark and outrage too

Elon would make his own Twitter called Doge-r, and a company that developed it and also did construction, so he could have dump trucks called Dogers (as in bulldozer), jokes about "taking a dump", etc

Re: Twitter experiences longest global outage in years

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Post by Ygg2 »

bob1029 wrote: post #21

Hypothetically, what do we think the effect would be if twitter went down and never came back?

As tempting it is to write world peace and leave, that wouldn't be true.

Biggest unofficial support channel would be closed.

Also my large smut collection would be inaccessible.

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Post by dspillett »

bob1029 wrote: post #21

Hypothetically, what do we think the effect would be if twitter went down and never came back?

A small short-lived productivity increase, followed by a mad rush of other services trying to spin up (or scale up if already running) and piling lots of man-hours into advertising themselves as the best replacement. Also many miles of column-space pontificating on the whys/wherefores, and a few people will try to sue because there was one little bit of irreplaceable information on there that is vital to them and they didn't have backed up elsewhere. Other than that, little or nothing of long-lasting consequence I expect.

Re: Twitter experiences longest global outage in years

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Post by upupandup »

iasay wrote: post #4

I hadn’t noticed. I am slightly proud of that.

Me neither. I am not on it enough to care and increasingly I am seeing less and less value from Twitter, especially after learning that less than 10% of it is actually active and most of the noise is coming from a cluster of individuals who will build narratives that ultimately benefit them.

Re: Twitter experiences longest global outage in years

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Post by gravitate »

I was thinking when services go down like this it forces us to remind ourselves how reliant we are on these services. Also remember they are free and you don’t get a refund for the service being down due to a SLA clause. People expect Twitter to be high availability but don’t spend a cent on the platform, except for Advertisers, who will be hurt most.
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