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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by therouwboat »

rvz wrote: post #195
favaq wrote: post #134

Not that I particularly like Elon but people are now making a big deal out of every twitter outage as if twitter didn't spend down half of the time before Elon bought it.

Every speed bump and hiccup of Twitter's outages since the acquisition is now magnified by the new standard expectation of 1000% uptime by the schadenfreude brigade. Before it is all '#hugops' and 'best wishes to the engineers at Twitter' when it had downtime before the acquisition. But as you can see, they all love to hate it because a person called Elon R. Musk owns the blue bird site. Just like when everyone here…

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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by munk-a »

ssnistfajen wrote: post #215
s1gnp0st wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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By selling it to a chum who paid an overpriced tag of $44B through leverage.

Honestly I think this point is understated. Twitter (executives at least - but that's how capitalism works in America right now) basically won by offloading a dying platform onto a sucker with more money then sense. If they'd spread the joy around so that everyone who worked there got a golden parachute to glide away on before Musk walked in with a kitchen sink I think I'd be singing praises of them as folk heroes - as it is they're at least assholes that managed to pull one over on a larger asshole.

Edit: Blargh - switching word order.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by spiek »

swarnie wrote: post #204
sockaddr wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. Glad I'm not putting energy into Twitter any longer.

As someone who's never sent a tweet, what did you get out of it Pre-SpaceJesus?

I quit Twitter when Elon took it over. It provided me with:

Easy access to information and articles about breaking news events.

Community.

A feed of interesting articles and discussions.

Enjoyment gained from following quickly evolving memes, discussions, and jokes.

A way to verbalize incidental thoughts, and the pleasure of crafting those thoughts into small nuggets to share with my friends.

Of course there are many negative aspects to Twitter, but those are the things I found value in.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by fzeroracer »

tayo42 wrote: post #117
Gabriel_Martin wrote: post #38

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twitter is only important if your stuck in the bubble of twitter people. Tons of people dont use twitter, let alone even write on there. to get even like 1000 replies is still an insignificant amount, even though it feels like a lot. there are 300million people in just the US. thinking twitter replies are meaningful or represent enough people to have discourse is disconnected from the real world.

This is more disconnected from the real world than Twitter, because you're focusing solely on a US-centric viewpoint. There are plenty of other places in the world where Twitter has been a core piece of communication.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by jjeaff »

O__________O wrote: post #227
paxys wrote: post #151

There 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…

Let’s not pretend like Twitter has never had downtime, they literally popularized the “Fail Whale” meme way before Elon was around: - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s...

Yes, but my recollection is that the whale fail was usually due to huge growth or unprecedented traffic peaks. I don't think Twitter is growing at a fast rate any longer.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by IncRnd »

The headline may overstate whatever happened.

I'd never used tweetdeck prior to now. Yet, it just now loaded fine for me. Once it loaded, I clicked a button that said something like, "setup some fields", and then tweets were displayed. What's not working? I'm just a free user of twitter.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by IntelMiner »

it_citizen wrote: post #185
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.

He intentionally demanded the site be jury-rigged to force-feed everyone his posts regardless

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by _zzaw »

cratermoon wrote: post #225
azangru wrote: post #22

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

What is http code 467? Something Twitter made up?

What, they didn't go with something like 420, or even 69?

I guess there's still one aspect of the company that Musk hasn't "fixed" yet...

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by jabroni_salad »

swarnie wrote: post #204
sockaddr wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. Glad I'm not putting energy into Twitter any longer.

As someone who's never sent a tweet, what did you get out of it Pre-SpaceJesus?

I used to run a bot that broadcasted my town's current alternate side parking rules (for snow removal operations) but after twitter got weird the town decided to make a text messaging service for it.

I still use it to follow certain artists but if that subcommunity moves I'll follow them elsewhere.

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