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Re: Twitter was down

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Post by hiddendoom45 » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:35 PM UTC

swyx wrote: post #64

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

No, it was also working with the self-hosted nitter instance I was using which should have almost nothing cached. Double checked with a new tweet posted in this thread.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by thesuitonym » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:35 PM UTC

Gabriel_Martin wrote: post #38

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This is the sad thing. I don't even use Twitter, except when a site is down, I go to the company's twitter to see if they're saying anything about it. Can't do that this time, I guess.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by rideontime » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:35 PM UTC

niix wrote: post #57

https://status.twitterstat.us/ says everything is operational

they laid off the people whose job it was to update that site, it hasn't updated for any of the other recent outages either

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by O__________O » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:35 PM UTC

Worth noting Twitter’s status page claims it is “operational” and no events are listed under history section for past 180-days, which is obviously wrong:

- https://status.twitter.com/

* Not to mention the SSL certificate appears to be expired too.

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EDIT-01: Appears there’s a status page just for the API:

- https://api.twitterstat.us/

EDIT-02: Wow, Twitter is using Twitter to post status updates:

- https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/163279294226274713...

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by coldpie » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:35 PM UTC

Gabriel_Martin wrote: post #38

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Yes, it is a bummer. Twitter was far from perfect, but it was the only large social media platform I felt took its role as a publisher at least kind-of seriously and worked towards clamping down on misinformation and hate speech. Musk spending truly unimaginable quantity of resources in order to turn the only kinda-sorta-semi-decent social network into yet another hands-off also-ran is pretty devastating. Here's hoping for its swift fall so something better can fill the gap.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by vld_chk » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:36 PM UTC

The Twitter suicide is the most crazy thing I’ve seen in my career. Rich and bored billionaire bought a “socially valuable service” just to drop its revenue by half and destroy it completely

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by sf_rob » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:36 PM UTC

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.

Elon's own account is that he's "experimenting" with taking production services offline to cut cost and simplify their code base. Essentially a literal Chaos Monkey. With this in mind, service degradations aren't surprising.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by systemvoltage » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:36 PM UTC

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.

> It would feel amazing after this much abuse.

This much abuse. What abuse? Can you tell us more in detail?

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by jebronie » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:36 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #7

For context, most of Twitter appears to be having issues (t.co links and images are also broken) Given all the random things Elon has cut from Twitter, it wouldn't surprise me if that included a staging environment.

One of the criticisms against the old twitter engineering team was that they failed to set up proper dev and testing environments. A leaker exposed all of this and it was later confirmed by Musk in a Twitter Spaces call.

Re: Twitter was down

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Post by doomleika » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:36 PM UTC

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…

I would say it’s just H1B, hard to jump ship when you are on such a tight window