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Re: Twitter was down

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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.

Doesn't work from Germany right now. (Telekom if that turned out to be important.)

Re: Twitter was down

#75
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Incredible that MuskBird lacks the alien technology of checking the log to see which customers are still using the API before turning it off.

Normally, this solution works great. At Twitter's scale with the number of API users they had, I can't imagine how they'd filter the signal out of the noise. This is very much a "someone would have had to know we're using our own API to avoid this disaster" scenario, which is an institutional knowledge problem. The kind of problem that gets hard to solve when XX% of your workforce suddenly left to seek new opportunit…

Sorry no. It is not an oral history problem. You simply group the stats by caller. “At Twitter scale” implies they already have this dashboard.

Re: Twitter was down

#77
This isn't "you can't run Twitter with half of its 2021 headcount".

This is "Elon Musk is deliberately mandating bad software engineering practices". I will decline to speculate whether that is out of malice or incompetence.

Re: Twitter was down

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{"errors":[{"message":"Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information","code":467}]}

Interestingly, that URL has the same message! A type of quine?

Re: Twitter was down

#80
I was literally adding a 2FA authenticator app to my Twitter accounts that aren't Twitter Blue accounts when this happened. I thought it was something I did.

Good to know that I can rely on H/N to tell me what's really going on... and it's not "just me".

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