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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by egypturnash »

chimeracoder wrote: post #266
O__________O wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> At the very least per tweet it’s possible to see really view patterns, which to my knowledge what’s possible before. Those numbers have been proven to be incorrect, by people who are posting from locked accounts with 0 followers racking up large nonzero view counts within a few minutes.

Some part of my brain immediately replied to this with the theory "what if those view counts are real and Twitter's just kind of ignoring whether an account is locked now" and damn that is a hell of a possibility to ponder.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by [deleted] »

wtf_is_up wrote: post #295
d23 wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where did this meme of them being a cash incinerator come from (other than from Musk, hoping people didn't look into the public statements)? Last time I looked, they had a few profitable quarters on the books. Looking at the last annual statement, I see a 200M loss on 5B revenue, with them sitting on 8B in assets, 2B of which is in cash. That's nothing close to a cash incinerator. As far as I can tell, tightening up…

> who appears to have made the problem 100x worse. Where is that reflected in the quarterly earnings report?

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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by AJRF »

bonsaibilly wrote: post #305
stronglikedan wrote: post #244

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

We're just pretending it doesn't now take the better part of 10 seconds for twitter.com to load now? That response times have gotten perceivably, measurably worse over the last few months? Or that these glitches aren't now a weekly occurrence?

I don't use it anymore but the odd time a friend will send me a link to it, and it is horrifically slow. I wonder if anyone will write about this time at twitter in a few years. Would be a case study in how to decimate a websites popularity and what not to do to avoid that.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by [deleted] »

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?

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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by nouryqt »

numpad0 wrote: post #186

PSA: Mastodon, Misskey, Nostr, Bluesky exists now. Just top 3 Mastodon instances(mastodon.social, pawoo.net, mstdn.jp) collectively has > 2mil users, same level as Twitter in 2008. Misskey, an ActivityPub/Mastodon compatible server software, now has >10K users. Nostr isn't much, Bluesky is still invite only and had just went past 2k registered, but those are all available options for direct substitutes to Twitter in…

Just chiming in to say not to visit pawoo at work.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by pkulak »

EarlKing wrote: post #274
dom96 wrote: post #197

Shameless plug: I created a browser extension to help transition to Mastodon[0]. If you don't yet feel like you can leave twitter.com, but want to explore alternatives it's a great way to get started. Essentially it injects Mastodon posts into your Twitter timeline, so you can retain your existing Twitter following while getting exposed to Mastodon. [0] - https://chirper.picheta.me

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That will happen the same time email "does something about that". It's an open standard. If you join a server that doesn't federate with servers you don't like, or you just don't follow accounts that post things you don't like, you won't see things you don't like.

My question for you is... what the heck server are you on, and what accounts are you following??? I've never seen a single thing you've mentioned on Mastadon.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by marketneutral »

wtf_is_up wrote: post #295
d23 wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where did this meme of them being a cash incinerator come from (other than from Musk, hoping people didn't look into the public statements)? Last time I looked, they had a few profitable quarters on the books. Looking at the last annual statement, I see a 200M loss on 5B revenue, with them sitting on 8B in assets, 2B of which is in cash. That's nothing close to a cash incinerator. As far as I can tell, tightening up…

> who appears to have made the problem 100x worse. Where is that reflected in the quarterly earnings report?

Musk took Twitter private, and private companies are not required to report financials.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by SamBam »

akiselev wrote: post #191
Tijdreiziger wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Works fine on my end (considering the contents of his tweets, I almost wish it didn't, though...)

To save everyone the click his feed is equal parts misogyny [1], 3 AM shit posting [2], and tantalizing flashes of self awareness [3]. [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632574090216103937 [2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632682409366781953 [3] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632275726912110593

That second one, poking fun at the BBC for saying that Twitter "can't protect users from trolling," was really the BBC shooting itself in the foot with a laughable headline burying the lede of the article:

> Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk

> Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, following lay-offs and changes under owner Elon Musk. [1]

For some reason, the headline decided to focus on "trolling" over an increase in child sexual assault and state-co-ordinated disinformation...

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64804007

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by PragmaticPulp »

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...

That was many years ago when Twitter had fewer employees.
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