On an unrelated point, Californian employees in the main layoff were employed till January 4 for legal reasons. Many of them were demanding their contracted 2 months' severance to follow that. Now that 2 months have just passed, does anyone know if they received this pay?
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#52In 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.
Everything seems fine for me when I use the main website.
No new links or images work for me from the main website. Cached stuff seems okay.
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#54Yep, something has gone very wrong. New images are also returning the same error. I assume the person that used to fix such things has been fired.
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#55In 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.
Everything seems fine for me when I use the main website.
Perhaps it's region specific but I get 467 errors right now for images on both mobile android and desktop web.
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#56I 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.
> half the time stuff isn't loading at all or is broken in obvious, overt ways
I use the app for a couple hours a day (according to my iPhone weekly reports), and have barely noticed any degradation since "the takeover". (Notwithstanding the obvious outage happening currently).
There's been a few minor glitches for sure, but then what large service is immune? Facebook, Exchange, AWS, etc. have all had notable outages this past year, and the Apple Services I regularly use (Apple Music, Siri, etc.) "fail" more often for me in daily use.
Maybe you're trying to do something more advanced than me, or are using a less reliable platform somehow, but generally I find all the "Twitter is so dead" talk being confirmation bias from folks that really want it to fail in light of recent changes.
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#57https://status.twitterstat.us/ says everything is operational
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#59This is actually funny. Just this weekend I was talking to another engineer friend of mine, and we were taking bets as to how long it would be before twitter went down for the last time. We felt bad for the engineers that are still there, and were actually surprised it's stayed up this long, with all the knowledge that walked out the door. Basic stuff like "where are our servers actually located". I guess the folks t…
Where did you land on the bets?
It appears that when Twitter goes down, its engineers were indispensable but when it's up, it's because the engineers foresaw this.
Given those factors, how long it stays up must be an interesting combination of how indispensable the engineers made themselves vs how much foresight they had.
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#60Even the homepage seems to be down as of 11:15am CST. Same error message. https://twitter.com/
I think only if you are not logged in. I get the error in incognito mode.
I get it both as logged in user and in incognito mode since at least 17:04 UTC. Probably different front-end servers.