This is the one site outage that might actually be a good thing for the world.
Twitter was down
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#72Pour one out for the SREs who had plans they were looking forward to this evening.
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#73We're all gonna die!
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#74I didn't realize how much I like using twitter between tasks until now. Hope it gets back soon.
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#75A lot of high-profile outages recently. Can't actually remember the last time Twitter went fully down. Have to confess I immediately assumed an issue with my own connection, even though every other site is working. Unrelated, but for some reason the phrase "I have no mouth and I must scream" just popped into my head
> Unrelated, but for some reason the phrase "I have no mouth and I must scream" just popped into my head That phrase was coined by Harlan Ellison in his classic scifi short story to represent a situation of complete despair and powerlessness. I don't think a lack of Twitter, Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook or Gmail -- however inconvenient -- would fill me with that kind of existential dread :)
honestly i feel unmoored without tweetdeck on my second screen ticking by. i realise this is probably a bad thing, but getting my daily news and info, i'd say 90% comes from twitter.
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#76Stuff like this makes me wonder if the Internet really is super vulnerable, and the only reason there isn't a mass disruption of communication all the time is because some script kiddies's Pizza Rolls were perfect today so he held off on attacking a backbone.
This is actually true of most of the modern world.
It is mostly still together because the venn diagram of those who want to see the world burn, and those who are clever enough to make it so has a very very small intersection, since the latter group is quite invested in the world not being on fire.
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#77In a slightly better alternate universe it stays down.
Which reminds me of a related quip of mine: "Like Fight Club, but for Facebook."
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#78Stuff like this makes me wonder if the Internet really is super vulnerable, and the only reason there isn't a mass disruption of communication all the time is because some script kiddies's Pizza Rolls were perfect today so he held off on attacking a backbone.
as someone else mentioned above this is a website/service that's down, not the internet. When you can't open a socket to a server in another network then the Internet is down.
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#79the internet is just falling apart these days
http://www.motherfuckingwebsite.com/ is still up. All is well.
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#80I had a tab open from earlier and it refused to load larger images of their thumbnail counterparts which I thought was odd, which suggests quite a few services affected (i.e. their CDN, or image hosting services)