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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by anonuser123456 »

nkozyra wrote: post #25

I 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.

As someone that I think the previous twit sphere would accuse of being right wing adjacent, I’m shocked at the dumpster fire that twitter has become from a content standpoint.

Like.. wokeness was annoying but the trash heap of craziness it is today is 5 steps backward. My feed is nothing but conspiratorial nonsense.

If twitter was “tilted left” before, today it seems to have capsized rightward.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by nkozyra »

billti wrote: post #56
nkozyra wrote: post #25

I 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…

> 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.

In my ideal world, Twitter - or something similar - succeeds. I don't care much about the politics of the ownership because that's generally going to be an iffy subject with anything coming from the valley.

But to regularly use it and not see things breaking here and there every day (not even including the times when the API is borked or it's only recommending Elon Tweets in your feed or a person's timeline won't load no matter what, not being able to send a tweet, etc.) ... I have to imagine you're very lucky. There was about 11 hours when people had exceeded their daily tweet quota by trying to send a single tweet. You don't remember stuff like that? It happens multiple times a week in the last few months.

I'm certainly not doing anything advanced. I'm mostly a casual user.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by swyx »

hiddendoom45 wrote: post #43

It does appear that the undocumented api that nitter uses still works and is unblocked by this change as I've been able to access twitter through nitter.

is it cached? have you tried viewing new tweets

Re: Twitter was down

#65

Post by aniforprez »

almog wrote: post #55
secondcoming wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Definitely region specific I think. It's working mostly fine for me. Links and images are mostly fine except for the errant occasional broken one but even then it's only when opening the full image

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by neuronexmachina »

_fizz_buzz_ wrote: post #29
AdamH12113 wrote: post #16

Even 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.

Alas, their login page gives the same error: https://twitter.com/login

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by jedberg »

renewiltord wrote: post #59
jedberg wrote: post #44

This 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.

I know some of the former Twitter engineers, and they were great engineers. I'm sure they built a fairly resilient system.

But at the scale and complexity, eventually you hit an unforeseen error that requires some institutional knowledge to fix, and it's doubtful they still have that, unless the ex-engineers loved the product so much they are willing to take phone calls from the people that are left and point them in the right direction.

I don't think we landed on a time frame. I'm actually surprised it stayed up this long.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by MrOwnPut »

papito wrote: post #48
systemvoltage wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you just have a gut feeling that they are being abused? I thought the crowd that didn't like working there, left.

I guess if you are on a visa. There are some "office heroes" there for sure, and they will probably realize years later that they were abused.

So they don't realize now they are being abused even though they have first hand experience, but you realize they are being abused because you have what insight exactly?

In other words, what exactly do you think the people working there will "realize years later"?

Could you specifically list the abuses being done to these engineers that they are unaware of?

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by kyrra »

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

everything is super broken. I can't load help pages. Links to 3rd party sites (that use t.co links) don't work. All kinds of fubar going on.
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