Here's a guy who understands what's REALLY going on:
Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
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#792Its funny how the entirety of silicon valley just forgot that Twitter was infamous for their unholy mess of a codebase which at some points looked like it had a secret mission to increase world entropy and terraform the planet. I still remember watching podcasts, reading blogposts, hearing prominent VC's like Elad talking about etc.. Now everbody silent because Elon is the baba yaga...
To go further, its crazy how much cognitive dissonance can penetrate even the smartest among us.. If you had some understanding of how modern systems at twitters scale works, you'd know such a bug is highly unlikely.
You have multiple clients (android, ios, web) and a whole cluster of microservices calling each other. The microservices calling each other will easily use up more requests.
IMO the likely culprit is rate limits being triggered by a huge increase in scraping caused by the new api pricing.
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#793Here's a guy who understands what's REALLY going on: https://twitter.com/i/status/1675254646942896128
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Man, we do need a public square.
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If they’re on an H1-B, they practically are.
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I’m not sure if you are just being pedantic or intentionally obtuse. Of course no one is being physically forced to work at Twitter. But you surely recognize that some people have limited viable choices not to.
While having the choice to quit, uproot the entire family and leave the country you’ve called home for many years is a choice technically, it’s not a choice most people are in a position to realistically make.
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#795Earlier quoted context omitted.
About 80% of Twitter was laid off or quit. I think it's a reasonable supposition that a good number of those were critical personnel who felt they could get a better deal somewhere else.
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What's stopping you son?
If it's capital, just get an SBA and start working.
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#796How is Elon allowed to transport people to space?
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#797Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this really easier than consulting a calendar? Its the weekend before the 4th of July, the independence day for USA - many employers give employees Monday and Tuesday off, creating a potential four day break during what is typically very good weather - that being said Twitter is presumably (still) an international company with people in all different holiday areas.
I searched "what holiday is it this weekend" on kagi and found nothing. I don't know what country GP is in and I haven't heard about any public holidays this weekend. The "America is the default" is tiring. The US makes up ~ 5% of the population, and most of us do not default to American thinking.
Maybe because Twitter is a US company with headquarters in San Francisco?
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Ooh, good idea. People can go build something against the Twitter API! Oh wait! I'm absolutely going to keep enjoying Musk's comeuppance. In this, consider me a traditionalist. As the Greek tragedies show, people have been enjoying the just punishment of hubris for thousands of years.
You can relish in the idea of Twitter having technical issues as if it hurts Elon in some tangible way, but the fact is he could pull the plug on it tomorrow… simply shut Twitter down entirely. Take the entire value of the company as a personal loss, and give everyone working there $1m for their service. And still be the wealthiest individual on the planet. He could do it another 5 times and still be a billionaire. Y…
So why does he worry about advertisers and bills? Why did he fire most of the employees? Why is he pushing changes to production without testing?
Why rush things when you can fail 5 times and still try again?
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He did make the call to do that, did he not? He publicly stated it on Twitter.
Why does it matter that he made the call to do that? I get plenty of "do this, do that" requests from my manager. And if I break things, is it my manager's fault? I'm trying to understand your logic. Please, explain. Edit: here is my take on it + the most likely scenario of what's going to happen next. This was a bad deployment and such things are not unusual in software industry. In this specific case, there are zer…
FWIW the site is not loading fine, my timeline briefly loaded and then I was "rate limited" again since about four hours ago.
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#800drama queen
429 requests handled at the load balancer are extremely light weight