Is Twitter/X Down(twitter.com)
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Is Twitter/X Down
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It might seem obvious, but I'd like to highlight that this illustrates another benefit of a distributed system like Mastodon. Even if one of the Mastodon servers goes down, the others will continue to function.
The value in twitter/youtube/IG/twitch etc is in the current social network/users, not the tech. That's why its insanely hard to create new social networks.
But if your instance is down how do you post?
Ahh yes.. replace the SPOF with a distributed SPOF /s :-)
Yes...all my timelines are gone. Cannot see anyone else timeliness. Treating me like a new user with a welcome message to set up my account. Also, the text as well as the like button, RT has shrunk and is very tiny. Only thing working is "Spaces"
Because no one is using them probably :D
same behavior
It used to be a celebration of how popular Twitter was becoming when one sees the Fail Whale - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Outages
Yeah, they need to bring the fail whale back!
When I was a kid (Nat Nanny)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Nanny] was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up to adore content moderation. A strange authoritarian impulse.
I don't think it's that.
if you had said something about how the moneyed interests make the rules you would then be on to something substantive though.
if you had said something about how the moneyed interests make the rules you would then be on to something substantive though.
The moneyed interests are boycotting X and deploying their EU and American regulators to tangle the platform up in regulation enforcements.
now you're getting somewhere.
Pre-acquisition the unwritten rule on Twitter was you could always do (and could never do) anything that aligned with the board and the equity holders. The rules that existed were theirs.
Pre-acquisition the unwritten rule on Twitter was you could always do (and could never do) anything that aligned with the board and the equity holders. The rules that existed were theirs.
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RIP Orkut
club penguin not on this list, RIP
You can add Threads right now under the category of dead.
The three (very very bitter) Threads users are downvoting you.
In the early days of Twitter at least we'd get the fail whale. I would love to go back to the early energy of Twitter but not like this...
I'd hate to see what Elon would choose as a fail whale equivalent.
Alas, it is a photo of a dog. Or at least it was on its last outage a few months ago.
Just like Amazon.
Whale Tail
There was that image of Elon before he started using Ozempic
I don't know, ketamine can also make you bloated, evidently.
Was ketamine also causing the male pattern baldness he had before his hair implants?
It seems increasingly the norm not to acknowledge any failure, but to simply fail to operate without admitting anything is wrong. Institutionally as well as technologically.
The timing couldn't be worse. Threads just launched in EU so the site has seen a big boost in activity.
Threads kinda sucks, it just shows you what their algorithm wants to show you, no ability to search for posts is pretty lame.
Are people in the EU actually even trying it? I might've been interested in trying it when it launched in the US/UK/Japan when everyone was making their "I'm now on Threads" posts, but now it seems pretty self-evident no one was actually moving there.
Yes, it's acting like I'm a completely new user. All of my tweets are gone, although 'reactions' are still there.
A major outage at 10PM PST is not fun :\ sorry Twitter ops.
A major outage at 10PM PST is not fun :\ sorry Twitter ops.
Neither is the time of year. The few remaining staff will be recovering from Xmas parties just before the long Christmas weekend if not already on holidays.
I heard the remaining staff were all entirely 110% hard core though ...
/s aside, you're correct, it's an awful time of the year to be last engineer standing watch over a major traffic site falling down.
/s aside, you're correct, it's an awful time of the year to be last engineer standing watch over a major traffic site falling down.
I thought I got banned.
(slightly) earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326
@dang please merge the threads.
Imagine working for Twitter ops and getting a phone call from angry Elon at your Xmas party, with a festive hat on, enjoying your beer, and then having to tell everybody you have to leave for the office now at 11 pm.
Any such real-world stories?
Any such real-world stories?
It's not down, it's having a software update.
The "Apple" approach? At least with apple it usually means new stuff is coming…
The most interesting thing is that Elon is completely silenced when X/Twitter is down. He has no other social media accounts to communicate through. Anyone got his number?
Seems to be going for a while.
I wonder if we'll get some kind of clarification on what happened. Those posts are always fun to read as you get to see what goes wrong on big software with millions of users!
It should be back working soon, i hope. Hopefully no data is lost.
I wonder if we'll get some kind of clarification on what happened. Those posts are always fun to read as you get to see what goes wrong on big software with millions of users!
It should be back working soon, i hope. Hopefully no data is lost.
I mean, you’ll get an Elon tweet along the lines of “Servers are woke”, and you’ll like it. I don’t think Musk companies have the sort of culture that produces detailed RCAs.
Is anyone tracking the number of downtimes / partial outages (like all outgoing links getting broken) ever since Elon decided to fire most of the staff? Very curious to see if there's actually been a noticeable uptick.
Elon probably didn't pay the compute bill.
? Shows the Xitter login screen and is the landing page? I thought up down monitoring should be hosted by different services?
Yeah, down in Germany and Croatia as well. Looks like their API has some serious issues.
Not just their API
Currently no posts are loaded on my computer/phone. Only skeleton + suggestions.
Well it's partially up, meaning you can see 'the site' but my posts, replies, and evidently at least some other people's posts and replies are completely missing.
Even people who have paid for the service evidently.
This kind of thing in a hypermedia application sure is problematic, because for example I have made lots of articles out on other services with embeds of tweets in those articles when I guess it would be more trustworthy to take screenshots.
Huh, maybe some essential people to keep this kind of thing from happening were recently let go.
This is a bigger screw up than that time my X account got suspended! https://medium.com/luminasticity/x-suspension-news-44664b6b2...
I suppose there will be a lot of people making backups of their content now.
If there was someone clever in control there they would add a feature that it would only give you the backup since your last backup (with notice of course) and you would have to actually request a FULL backup that would probably save the servers a lot of work in the coming weeks. But there seems to be an ongoing narrative that there isn't someone clever in control there.
Even people who have paid for the service evidently.
This kind of thing in a hypermedia application sure is problematic, because for example I have made lots of articles out on other services with embeds of tweets in those articles when I guess it would be more trustworthy to take screenshots.
Huh, maybe some essential people to keep this kind of thing from happening were recently let go.
This is a bigger screw up than that time my X account got suspended! https://medium.com/luminasticity/x-suspension-news-44664b6b2...
I suppose there will be a lot of people making backups of their content now.
If there was someone clever in control there they would add a feature that it would only give you the backup since your last backup (with notice of course) and you would have to actually request a FULL backup that would probably save the servers a lot of work in the coming weeks. But there seems to be an ongoing narrative that there isn't someone clever in control there.
It’s not loading any tweets on desktop and mobile
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What exactly are we suposed to be looking at? This just links to a random person's profile called "Geneia@home"?
With any luck it's permanent
Sucks for the oncall engineers
Maybe someone backed it up?
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Redis is down oops.
Remember Digg v4?
Its working now
everything except spaces is out for me
Ask HN:
it's up again.
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I deleted X to break this habit and cos it is becoming an Elon Musk vanity project so don’t care if it’s down
I care so little that I make a comment about it, showing how little I care.
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