works fine for me
Are you using any of the official apps? Those are dead.
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Are you using any of the official apps? Those are dead.
yeah. iOS app and website both working here in hong kong
Interesting. Android, iPad and iPhone are not loading the timeline for me since over an hour already. Search is also breaking. DMs work fine though.
Edit: it’s working for me now.
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#24I was pleasantly surprised in the beginning of Musks reign, because a few weeks into it the World Cup came and went and Twitter didn't even flinch. But since then it's been quite the shit-show from a stability point of view. I'm not a heavy user so I don't really care, but it is interesting how the initial pessimistic predictions had a sort of lag before being borne out.
I don't think that's at all surprising. Companies can run with a skeleton crew... for a little bit (most web services get through major holidays on a handful of on-call employees, say). But that only works for so long.
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#25It's interesting seeing the predictions come true. I was slightly nervous when Elon fired 90% of twitter staff and the site kept working. If stuff never broke, then empirically, firing 90% of your staff seems to be a good idea. But now stuff is breaking each week, and it's evident that maybe it wasn't the best idea.
Twitter ran pretty bad even before Musk though. As a Twitter addict, I can remember at least 5 times total outages within 2 years before Musk took over. There are also some serious privacy accidents that surprisingly never got any attention in Western. For example, about 3 years ago, Twitter bugged that everyone's private lists (titles, descriptions) are publicly visible for at least half a day. It was a huge shit st…
It's difficult to judge based solely on experience, but it's definitely felt worse to me recently. I don't remember having so many problems with basic functionality before — things like tweets showing up in one place and not others. Tbh, many of the problems seem to be related to poor cache management.
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#26No problem. It has lost a lot of relevance anyway.
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#27Not sure if this is a legit site but according to this everything is operational.
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#28It's interesting seeing the predictions come true. I was slightly nervous when Elon fired 90% of twitter staff and the site kept working. If stuff never broke, then empirically, firing 90% of your staff seems to be a good idea. But now stuff is breaking each week, and it's evident that maybe it wasn't the best idea.
> I was slightly nervous when Elon fired 90% of twitter staff and the site kept working. If stuff never broke, then empirically, firing 90% of your staff seems to be a good idea. Things continuing to work doesn't mean that firing 90% of the staff is a good idea. Decently built site will remain up even if nobody's around to take care of it. Actually changing things is where you see an actual impact of the layoffs. The…
I think there is very little competition for Twitter except TikTok and Instagram. But they have different audience profiles. So it is safe to do nothing on average but you won't grow...
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#29I was pleasantly surprised in the beginning of Musks reign, because a few weeks into it the World Cup came and went and Twitter didn't even flinch. But since then it's been quite the shit-show from a stability point of view. I'm not a heavy user so I don't really care, but it is interesting how the initial pessimistic predictions had a sort of lag before being borne out.
I don't think that's at all surprising. Companies can run with a skeleton crew... for a little bit (most web services get through major holidays on a handful of on-call employees, say). But that only works for so long.
I think if you leave a product in a steady state, then you can keep a web service running for quite a while. The problem is when you want to add new features, which is a much higher risk activity.
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#30I was pleasantly surprised in the beginning of Musks reign, because a few weeks into it the World Cup came and went and Twitter didn't even flinch. But since then it's been quite the shit-show from a stability point of view. I'm not a heavy user so I don't really care, but it is interesting how the initial pessimistic predictions had a sort of lag before being borne out.
you could run twitter indefinitely with a crew (25-50) of competent SRE for basically ever as long as they didn't roll out new features. Nobody should take that fact and conclude that firing your employees en masse is a good idea.