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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by sneak »

jjeaff wrote: post #236
O__________O wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Musk claims often that Twitter engagement numbers are at record highs. I don't believe these are lies.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by skybrian »

munk-a wrote: post #218
James_Henry wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for typing out their tweet. I wouldn't have been able to have read it otherwise, seeing twitter is down.

I haven't really been able to read anything on twitter for a while now as I run noscript by default and haven't deigned to whitelist twitter. I remain astounded by how much their product has declined (even pre-Musk acquisition) from their glory days of being so light weight that they were used to organize protests when governments would clamp down on internet access.

Mileage varies. For me, Twitter’s user experience hasn’t changed noticeably.

Re: Twitter was down

#253

Post by user3939382 »

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…

All services have downtime. Look at AWS last year.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by random314 »

jjeaff wrote: post #236
O__________O wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It also comes from it's history as a Ruby on rails site and disappeared once the the servers moved to scala on the JVM.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by aaroninsf »

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...

It's telling that it all but requires a visit to the Wayback Machine to find reporting on that era.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by mulletbum »

stronglikedan wrote: post #244
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…

A simple and short lived glitch does not a #3 make. Twitter is better than ever now. Elon did good.

Why?

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by O__________O »

sneak wrote: post #251
jjeaff wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Musk claims often that Twitter engagement numbers are at record highs. I don't believe these are lies.

At the very least per tweet it’s possible to see really view patterns, which to my knowledge what’s possible before.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by MrOwnPut »

Tostino wrote: post #247
roboyoshi wrote: post #10

In case people are wondering what this is about: All links and images are not working on twitter right now. Seems like they accidentally included their own services in the api blocklist? Sending best of luck to the engineers. The whole twitter saga has given me a good chunk of valuable "lesson learned" over the last weeks and months.. so thanks for that.

For someone who has tried to avoid hearing as much as possible about this drama (and didn't notice this was about Twitter until looking at the comments), what are the condensed "lesson learned" takeaways if you don't mind elaborating?

The lesson is if Elon runs Twitter, an hour long downtime takes up everyone's day so we can all speculate.

Before, it was "healthy for everyone" when Twitter went down (search hn.algolia.com for pre-Elon Twitter downtime threads)

Now it's an episode of Real Housewives just like any other Elon thread on HN.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by chimeracoder »

sneak wrote: post #251
jjeaff wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Musk claims often that Twitter engagement numbers are at record highs. I don't believe these are lies.

> Musk claims often that Twitter engagement numbers are at record highs. I don't believe these are lies.

You're talking about a man who has more than once been fined by the SEC for making false statements about public securities. What makes you think that he'd be a more reliable narrator for a private company for which he has no external accountability and a large personal financial interest?

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