Yeah, they stopped paying for API access because it got insanely expensive.
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#32Speculation is that t.co link shortener service is broke : https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1632788892599586816 > The Twitter outage seems to be around a critical piece of infrastructure: the Twitter link shortener. > Every link on Twitter has been shortened to a t.co link. Only Twitter’s systems know where the link goes > If these systems ever go down, its link rot at scale
> If these systems ever go down, its link rot at scale
Only if one's mental model is that t.co links were ever permanent.
They're privately-owned obfuscator links. Unless someone in the wild was building a mirror mapping, they were always doomed and never to be trusted; they knocked the "U" right out of the "URL."
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#33Hardcore engineering at work.
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#35The fun part is that the CEO is on Twitter as this happens, arguing about COVID.
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#37“I would expect to start seeing significant public-facing problems with the technology within six months,” he says. “And I feel like that’s a generous estimate.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-ho...
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#39I don't think I could have predicted - even given the wanton layoffs - that the service would deteriorate so quickly across the board. I barely use the app anymore and half the time stuff isn't loading at all or is broken in obvious, overt ways. Just ... stunning.
It not just the layoffs it is also the major changes Elon is forcing through at high speed .
Hiring for twitter is going to be quite expensive, nobody is taking this up without huge payoff and probably upfront given Elon pre disposition not to honor severance etc
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#40In 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.
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Do you just have a gut feeling that they are being abused? I thought the crowd that didn't like working there, left.