Yes, why not go live in this guy's moon city, what could go wrong.
Twitter(X) Is Down
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#22Time to fire some more engineers and replace them with Grok.
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#23Why is there an expectation for social media services to have such high uptime? It's not an ISP or cloud provider, why does it matter if it goes down occasionally?
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#24Yes, why not go live in this guy's moon city, what could go wrong.
Hey, the uptime for oxygen is 99.9% this month
Why are you complaining about the half hour of no air? Did you suffer some sort of brain damage? (<-- that's the joke. look up "hypoxia" if you didn't get it. Oh, and try not to get hypoxia.)
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#25I read that they only have 30 people maintaining the whole app. It must be difficult holding everything together with so few people, and probably insufficient redundancy with oncall.
From what I understand, they effectively rewrote all Scala/JVM/Python services to go through the xAI engine for their feed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8JOlCvA4Qs
I am not sure how that works at scale or how much money that burns, OR if this is even true, but a Rust monolith of this kind, where everything is a Black Box, could very will be maintained by 30 people.
That said, X is a complete dumpster fire where I want to pour Clorox into my eyes after 30 seconds.
I miss being plugged into a 24/7 feed of professional reporters, and at the same time - thank you, Elon, for fixing my addiction.
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#26Why is there an expectation for social media services to have such high uptime? It's not an ISP or cloud provider, why does it matter if it goes down occasionally?
In my mind, it isn't about any specific expectation. Events like this are interesting because the cracks are starting to show when a company follows the "fire as many people as possible, run lean, integrate AI" strategy. The trend I'm seeing is that downtimes are becoming more common, which in turn does not speak well to that strategy.
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#27Why is there an expectation for social media services to have such high uptime? It's not an ISP or cloud provider, why does it matter if it goes down occasionally?
Because many people (including high profile CEOs and VCs) are social media and X addicts. They spend literally all waking hours interacting with it.
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#28Yes I was checking my tweets and suddenly it was down also in Youtube no video was playing.
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#29Seems to be dead again
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#30Why is there an expectation for social media services to have such high uptime? It's not an ISP or cloud provider, why does it matter if it goes down occasionally?
Yes, I think we’d all benefit from that perspective. Of course, the revenue implications for the ownership of one of these pointless brain rot factories being down for a half hour are enormous. That’s a little notable but only for their shareholders.