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Twitter was down
- anonymousjunior 7y agothe internet is just falling apart these days
- maemilius 7y agoThe internet is held together with pixie dust and prayers (sometimes duct tape and occasionally spit and rust).
- smhenderson 7y agoI work for a small shop so we have to use a lot of bubble gum too!
- pmlnr 7y agonah, the internet is fine. Only the self-entitled "gatekeepers" are failing, and I'm glad they do.
- Ken_Adler 7y agohttps://www.pcworld.com/article/155984/worst_tech_predictions.html?page=2 https://www.pcworld.com/article/155984/worst_tech_prediction...
- devnonymous 7y agoQuite honestly, I wonder how much of this can be traced back to the fact that there are way too many layers of abstractions between the browser requests coming in and a cpu actually executing something to serve the request.
- coldpie 7y agohttp://www.motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://www.motherfuckingwebsite.com/ is still up. All is well.
- reverite 7y agoReminds me so much of The Best Page in the Universe.
- kevinlou 7y agoIt's weird seeing the go-to downtime tracker go down. I'm so wired to check Twitter that I kept refreshing for a good 10 seconds.
- edwintorok 7y agoTime to make HN the go-to downtime tracker. Did anyone measure HN's uptime over the past years?
- snazz 7y agoI don’t know about empirical data, but HN occasionally goes into a mode where page loads that don’t hit the cache (logged in users) take 10+ seconds. I haven’t been on when it’s gone down completely since i signed up (not too long ago).
- SimeVidas 7y ago1. Wow, Twitter is down. 2. I bet it’s trending. Let me check. 3. … 4. Oh.
- pcora 7y agogoogle, apple, microsoft, facebook.. and now twitter? I keep asking the same, when is amazon's outage day?
- unreal37 7y agoJuly 15 and 16, coming up!
- degenerate 7y agoFree shipping on outages for all prime members!
- rahuldottech 7y agoYou missed cloudflare, stripe, slack
- pcora 7y agooh, right! the slack one sucked
- SteveGregory 7y agoThe Google, Cloudflare, and Stripe outages all affected Shopify. So Shopify has had several meaningful outages over the past few weeks.
- rmoriz 7y agoIsn‘t Shopify a Fastly customer? Do they still use Cloudflare?
- SteveGregory 7y agoI was also under that impression until the Cloudflare event happened. I do not actually know what their dependency was, but all shops were taken offline.
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- abadabadingdong 7y agoI wonder how many conspiracies this single outage will trigger.
- rootforce 7y agoTheory: The internet is really just a series of green tubes underground and the last earthquake knocked out the primary plumber named Mario.
- moate 7y agoMy theory: The internet in fact IS a big truck, and it got a flat tire.
- brooksgarrett 7y agoNo. The internet is in a box and Jenn broke it.
- danso 7y agoGiven that today was the White House's "Social Media Summit", no doubt there will be a few conspiracies floated. I'm betting "Twitter wanted to block out all the criticism coming form the summit!" will be a popular one.
- indigochill 7y agoI've got a couple conspiracy theories at the moment: 1. It's a deployment of some infrastructure change the government got the big tech companies to sign onto. 2. It's a "shot across the bow" from some external party to demonstrate their control over major infrastructure. 2.a. Also could have been a mix of 1 and 2. The government orchestrated the outages in order to add fuel to the hysteria over Chinese "spy chips". However, given the story every time seems to be "Someone goofed a configuration", this theory doesn't seem to have much life left in it.
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- cgy1 7y agoI'm sure it's purely coincidence, but interestingly Trump's also holding his Social Media Summit right now.
- Balgair 7y agoI had the exact same thought!
- hjanssen 7y agoI'm wondering if this has anything to do with the announced new "Look and Feel" for Twitter. I got a banner yesterday talking about it and now Twitter is down. Maybe they messed up something in preparation for the rollout?
- tschellenbach 7y agoReally curious which part of their infrastructure was the root cause.
- brokensegue 7y agoeh, it's a boring story source: work there
- tschellenbach 7y agosomeone tripped over a cable?
- brokensegue 7y agothat would be funny at least. no, just a bad config deploy.
- segmondy 7y agoIt's always configuration change during deployment. Bad configuration, someone messed up a yaml or json config file.
- cronix 7y agoStay down. The world will be a better place.
- unwabuisi 7y agoI wish they would bring back the fail whale!
- jachee 7y agoAgreed! Their little amputated robot looks too much like the reddit Snoo.
- neom 7y agoI miss fail whale. :( https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-story-behind-twitters-fail-whale/384313/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s...
- qrush 7y agoMe too! :)
- jhsu 7y agolegendary
- thomasjudge 7y agoWhat is the new fail mascot called? It looks like a cartoonish-alien with a PacMan/snipper hand and another hand that looks like a burning fuse standing next to a bomb with a fuse lit that is split open so it also looks like a PacMan
- twic 7y agoIt's a robot whose hand has fallen off.
- Kyragem 7y agoWow I hope the stock markets won't crash with Trump having no ability to talk it up constantly.
- jbverschoor 7y agoWhat’s the fallback for twitter if twitter is down, or worse: stops
- Kye 7y agoMastodon I started a thread for sharing instances: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20414359 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20414359
- sascha_sl 7y agoNote: Mastodon isn't the best thing to call it, it's the Fediverse and Mastodon is one piece of it. There's also Pleroma and Misskey.
- iamnotacrook 7y agoJust threatening to rape random women in the street from the safety of a moving car?
- sascha_sl 7y agopart of me wishes it was the fediverse part of me hates the idea
- pjc50 7y agoWe'll have to do our own jokes.
- bovermyer 7y agoMastodon, in my case.
- mavdi 7y agoLiterally 0 negative consequence.
- idlewords 7y agoLooks at folder marked "projects" in dread
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- gnicholas 7y agoI first noticed the outage about 10 mins ago in Safari (Mac). It repeatedly gave me errors, even though Brave (Mac) was working fine. My iPhone app also worked fine (and appears to still be working). Why would one browser work but another not work, on the same computer at the same IP? The only difference is the account I'm logged in through (personal/work).
- dewey 7y agoYou probably just hit different load balancers with your different browser sessions.
- idlewords 7y agoOn the status posts in particular I really miss the ability to sort comments by new on this site.
- dewey 7y agoIt has been a long time since I've seen the equivalent of the fail whale on Twitter. It was a weekly occurrence back in the days.
- lukey_q 7y agoA 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
- jasoncartwright 7y agoMove fast and break things
- malhotra_chetan 7y agoI think they are past that stage! If a 28 billion company gets to say that I am not going to feel bad about my site going down.
- pwenzel 7y agoMercury is in Retrograde through July 31.
- tunesmith 7y agoI never notice problems when I don't know about that, so I wish I hadn't read that. :)
- showdeadforever 7y agoI'll bet you like Bloc Party :)
- loblollyboy 7y agolol
- the_af 7y ago> 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 :)
- focuser 7y agoyup, What's worse than releasing a product on twitter and found it down a few minutes later...
- ravedave5 7y agoQuick un-release it and rerelease after it's up!
- MiddleEndian 7y agoRight now, probably working at twitter
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- aphextim 7y agoCall me a conspiracy theorist but seems odd the timing of this at the same time Trump is having his "Twitter Summit". Then again things have been going down over the past two weeks so it's probably just coincidence.
- sneakernets 7y agoStuff 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.
- dmitrygr 7y agoThis 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.
- filleokus 7y agoYes, I think people tend to underestimate the chaos some malicious actors could do by even "just" coordinated litteral burning of stuff. Think a dozen people with cans of gasoline and matches spread over three different suburbias in a city, wooden churches or other wooden buildings of interest. Or simple firebombs on underground subway plattforms. Would probably not be that lethal but I guess very frighting. (Not even mentioning explosives etc, but this could probably be prepared in like an hour by just purchasing supplies at local gas stations in any country)
- chasd00 7y agoas 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.
- rglover 7y agoThis is hilarious.
- indigochill 7y agoRead up on BGP hijacking. The internet really is super vulnerable.
- RIMR 7y agoAnd here I am thinking I got suspended again because right-wingers report every comment they don't like.
- idlewords 7y agoMaybe we all got suspended
- TrumpMolestedMe 7y agoAh, twitter politards. The true deplorables.
- brooksgarrett 7y agoAnd here I am thinking I got suspended again because ~right-wingers~ lame people report every comment they don't like. FTFY. In my experience both sides of politics have weak minded people that can't experience critical thinking. ETA: Awesome. The downvotes and "flagged" status are great to support my statement. Thanks for the fish!
- dthedev 7y agoPray for the team that has to handle this ticket.
- falsedan 7y agoThat’ll be fine, a post mortem will show that ops weren’t the cause and their comp package will help them get over this little package of stress
- Zenst 7y agoGuess for some media outlets - it's going to be a slow news day.
- steverob 7y agoWhere is twitter when I really need it? :D
- totaldude87 7y agoDown on a plain Thursday with no major news or anything , so definitely doesn't look like a infrastructure spike or anything. Could be bad deployment or someone decided to pull few plug(s)
- yomoraka 7y agoplug pulled by "youknowwho"'s team
- kyledrake 7y agoIn a slightly better alternate universe it stays down.
- saidajigumi 7y agoWhich reminds me of a related quip of mine: "Like Fight Club, but for Facebook."
- 0xFFFE 7y agoI share your sentiment to a certain extent, but I believe Twitter is a necessary evil. There should be an alternative to main stream media for people.
- rvz 7y agoI found Gab [0] to be quite a viable alternative to Twitter due to its decentralised nature thanks to Mastodon so that downtimes like this cannot happen on the platform. [0] - https://gab.ai https://gab.ai
- barneygumble742 7y agoIs this the neo-nazi Twitter alternative?
- kgraves 7y ago> ...quite a viable alternative to Twitter due to its decentralised thanks to Mastodon. Gab isn't what everyone makes it out to be, they were told to build their own alternative and built it. It's even better that it's using Mastodon's stack to build their own decentralised social network. Gab, Mastodon and others like it are future of social networks. Centralisation is evil.
- wishrider 7y agoI've scraped a lot of tech news from twitter if anyone needs it https://uptopnews.com/ https://uptopnews.com/
- joojia 7y agoAs a Twitter-junkie, I find this depressing.
- TremendousJudge 7y agobut where are we gonna go to get live status updates on the issue??
- mikece 7y agoI posted the question on Slack "How do you spread the word when Twitter goes down?" People thought that was so hilarious... until they realized Twitter was actually down. Honestly, "Hacker News" was my answer which seems to be effectively correct -- and today I learned about the existence of twitterstat.us!
- djhworld 7y agohttps://downdetector.co.uk/status/twitter https://downdetector.co.uk/status/twitter is a pretty good resource too
- omarforgotpwd 7y agothey should have thrown up the fail whale for old times sake
- whatshisface 7y agoI remember once we were at three outages, someone posted that they thought three was a reasonably-sized random cluster given the rate at which services go down. How many outages have we had in the last 30 days, how many do we have per month on average, and how strongly can we reject the null hypothesis? The formula for computing how unlikely this is is the Poisson distribution: `λ^k * e^-λ / k!`, where λ is the average number of outages every 30 days and k is the number of outages in the past 30 days. If you find the numbers, let me know what the answer is.
- lordnacho 7y agoThe outages might not be independent. Chances are these services are cross integrated at some level.
- whatshisface 7y agoThey are, but they're going down on different days. Whatever effect is left over could be accounted for by looking at the postmortems and not counting "we were down because AWS was down."
- doomjunky 7y ago07/11/2019 Twitter outage 07/03/2019 WhatsApp, Facebook & Instagram outage 07/02/2019 Cloudflare outage (Discord, 9gag, Medium) 07/02/2019 Google Cloud glass fiber damage (Google Services) 06/24/2019 Verizon route leak (Cloudflare, Google, Amazon, Reddit) 06/02/2019 Google Cloud excalated outage progression (G Suite, YouTube)
- lopespm 7y agoA comment made before by another user about Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outages offers an interesting perspective: "This outage coincides with FBs PSC (performance summary cycle) time. I wonder if this is folks trying to push features so they get “impact” for PSC."[1] I wonder if the recent outages on other well known services could be heavily influenced by a similar phenomenon. If this holds water, it would be interesting to have an article or study around this issue. I certainly would be interested in reading it. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20350579 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20350579
- ankushnarula 7y agoThis is the one site outage that might actually be a good thing for the world.
- twinkletwinkle_ 7y agoPour one out for the SREs who had plans they were looking forward to this evening.
- ga-vu 7y agoWe're all gonna die!
- luhego 7y agoI didn't realize how much I like using twitter between tasks until now. Hope it gets back soon.
- ssully 7y agoNoticed the outrage when I opened twitter when waiting for a long (10 min) process to run. What am I supposed to do? Socialize with coworkers?
- djhworld 7y agoI 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)
- idlewords 7y agoSo storytime! I worked at Twitter as a contractor in 2008 (my job was to make internal hockey-stick graphs of usage to impress investors) during the Fail Whale era. The site would go down pretty much daily, and every time the ops team brought it back up, Twitter's VCs would send over a few bottles of really fancy imported Belgian beer (the kind with elaborate wire bottle caps that tell you it's expensive). I would intercept these rewards and put them in my backpack for the bus ride home, in order to avoid creating perverse incentives for the operations team. But did anyone call me 'hero'? Also at that time, I remember asking the head DB guy about a specific metric, and he ran a live query against the database in front of me. It took a while to return, so he used the time to explain how, in an ordinary setup, the query would have locked all the tables and brought down the entire site, but he was using special SQL-fu to make it run transparently. We got so engrossed in the details of this topic that half an hour passed before we noticed that everyone had stopped working and was running around in a frenzy. Someone finally ran over and asked him if he was doing a query, he hit Control-C, and Twitter came back up.
- dmix 7y agoWoo startups.
- dubcanada 7y ago"I would intercept these rewards and put them in my backpack for the bus ride home, in order to avoid creating perverse incentives for the operations team. But did anyone call me 'hero'?" Wait so you stole rewards for a team that was spending time (I assume extra or stressful) on something you didn't do or have any part in. And you want a cookie? I mean I get it, the company was probably not great in it's infancy. But what?
- idlewords 7y agoI don't want a cookie; I want more $24/bottle Belgian beer.
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- mikece 7y agoI am curious if twitterstat.us has an API... I'm thinking that automated unit testing of apps that integrate with Twitter should be checking with twitterstat.us to verify if Twitter is even up...
- Nican 7y agoOddly enough- The Mastadon (Open-source decentralized Twitter clone) instance that I use is also down for maintenance.
- yomoraka 7y agoSomeone from "youknowwho" administration had made a deployment it appears
- rossdavidh 7y agoOk, this is too many high-profile, apparently unrelated outages in the last month to be completely a coincidence. Hypotheses: 1) software complexity is escalating over time, and logically will continue to until something makes it stop. It has now reached the point where even large companies cannot maintain high reliability. 2) internet volume is continually increasing over time, and periodically we hit a point where there are just too many pieces required to make it work (until some change the infrastructure solves that). We had such a point when dialup was no longer enough, and we solved that with fiber. Now we have a chokepoint somewhere else in the system, and it will require a different infrastructure change 3) Russia or China or Iran or somebody is f*(#ing with us, to see what they are able to break if they needed to, if they need to apply leverage to, for example, get sanctions lifted 4) Just a series of unconnected errors at big companies 5) Other possibilities?
- Qwertystop 7y agoRelating to 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk (Jonathan Blow's "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization"... perhaps a melodramatic title, but well-said overall.)
- marenkay 7y agoOr we just managed to construct the biggest circular dependency ever using the whole internet and a combination of all hyped languages and frameworks. That would in turn lead to an insanely fragile system with increasing amounts of failures that seem unexplainable/weird.
- frogpelt 7y ago5) Some of all of the above? Although 3) doesn't have to be the explanation, it is definitely happening all the time.
- idlewords 7y agoWrite a script to fire random events and you will notice they sometimes cluster in ways that look like a pattern.
- geocrasher 7y agoSo the little blue bird of hate has finally crashed and burned. I'm okay with that.
- cagrimmett 7y agoI hope Jack went rogue and nuked it after his most recent hot yoga vision. That's the kind of shakeup we need in this world.
- krferriter 7y agoIt's a bold strategy, I'd enjoy seeing how that would play out.
- sp332 7y agoThey have been teasing/warning about a new version of Twitter that was due to launch soon. I wonder if this is it.
- anirudh24seven 7y agoIs that a reference to the Black Mirror episode?
- skc 7y agoHeh, just last week there was a running joke on Twitter about how Facebook and Whatsapp users were busy scrambling to learn how to use Twitter due to the CDN outage over there.
- segmondy 7y agoOne day one of these services will go down and they won't be able to bring it back up.
- heisnotanalien 7y agoGood. Let's hope it stays down and the world will be a better place.
- miramardesign 7y agothose leftist cucks probably pay their server fees by whoring out their wives.
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- AznHisoka 7y agoI did notice something strange a few days ago. If you ran a search on Twitter, and scrolled down, it would mysteriously stop showing tweets past a certain time (July 1st, in my case). I wasn't sure if this was an internal change, or a bug of some sort. Maybe this is unrelated to the outage but strange coincidence.
- oldgun 7y agoI remember seeing something about Twitter bringing out a newer version, with more features and goodies. This could be related to that? Rolling out new features is always stressful I guess.
- the-dude 7y agoMy pet theory still is Huawei equipment being decommissioned.
- miguelmota 7y agoReminds me of the Black Mirror 'Smithereens' episode where Jack is the yoga meditating hippie, but this time he decides to finally shut it down
- nevi-me 7y agoI was in the middle of a loosely legal argument about the politics of my country, and tonight I had found obliging people to reason with me instead of calling me names. The discussion was beautiful, until the app stopped working. I even thought I was blocked. I'm glad that it's just down.
- pulkitsh1234 7y agoahh..another "configuration change" ?
- ejz 7y agoNo! Now I have to work. :(
- DannyB2 7y agoSpock: The loss to the galaxy may be irretrievable.
- miduil 7y agomastodon.social is also suddenly down.
- phil248 7y agoOh, that explains why I felt the world become slightly less hateful all of a sudden.
- jorblumesea 7y agoIs anyone a little suspicious that every large US tech company has had an outage recently? Wtf is going on. China messing with us due to tariffs perhaps?
- totaldude87 7y agoWhy the share price doesn't go down drastically when services like Facebook, Instagram , Twitter goes down. Every minute down is lost business right?
- elcapitan 7y agoSeems to be partially back.
- anonymak 7y agoWas receiving 500 on the main page for some time. Seems to have recovered now.
- kgraves 7y agoAt long last, productivity has been restored. No more time wasting anti-intellectual arguments on a platform that has provided little to no value. Unfortunately, the poor SRE's at the company will reboot the system and the masses will resume their daily centralised content consumption. Oh well, I will just have to go to Mastodon or other instances for curated content (with no algorithms messing up my feed). I encourage you join Mastodon and the decentralised web. As far as I am concerned with Twitter, nothing of value has been lost.
- farisjarrah 7y agoThis is bad... There is an Amber Alert in California for an abducted child and on the amber alert that popped up on my phone was a link for more information... That link took me straigt to twitter, which is down.
- musgrove 7y agoI wondered why there was a sudden peace on Earth.
- cryptozeus 7y agoseems to be up now
- Copenjin 7y agoIt's back.
- slackfan 7y agoHere's hoping it stays that way!
- ibdf 7y agoThe real question is, if twitter were to go down permanently, what social media tool would the president use? Would he switch to something else or not use anything at all? I can imagine whatever tool he were to choose would become popular over night.
- syn0byte 7y agoI was gonna make a joke about how much hate Trump generates ruining a brand like that but then I remember Hugo Boss, BMW, IBM, VW and Bayer among others were all knuckle deep with the Nazi's and every single one is still a popular brand to this day.
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- Bob995 7y agoTesting if I'm already censored by the mods.
- gigatexal 7y agoWorks fine for me. Lucky i guess.
- BuckRogers 7y agoNo one is missing out on anything important. Mostly noise. For folks with my same mindset, I do believe I've cracked the code on most social networks, as far as what makes them worthwhile at all. Twitter- it's the police scanners. Find them for your city, it's really the best way to know what's going on around you. Better than the papers, which can't report on everything or hide stuff for business's financial interests. Instagram- is pretty much only useful for models, whatever sort you prefer. If you like models and it brightens your day to see a beautiful woman, as it does for me, it gives Instagram a purpose other than the noise it shares with most social networks. If it makes you happy and smile, it's a good thing. No, I'm not into pornography or anything risque. Though if I were, that would probably be ok, I simply value keeping a little imagination and mystery in my life and don't watch it. Nor are the models that I follow doing it as far as I know, but that's their decision. They mostly survive off product placement and payment for additional photos. Nothing wrong with innocent modeling, just like the olden days of pin-up girls and I hope more people support them in their endeavors. Facebook- this one is better understood by most people, hence the popularity, but it's definitely the whitepages aspect of it. I use the instant messaging more than anything, as it's difficult to have an index of your old friend's emails until you're in touch with them again. Also, people just don't keep up on emails and maintain inbox zero very well. Youtube- this, other than RSS feeds (through Firefox's Livemarks extension) is my main source of information. I'm not into cat videos, but I certainly love learning about astrophysics and other topics from Youtubers that are more knowledgeable than I am.
- WheelsAtLarge 7y agoGood, let's hope it stays down. If only we were so lucky.
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- VectorLock 7y agoIts like people don't remember the days of the failwhale.
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- simplecomplex 7y agoOh no! How will we participate in the Two Minutes Hate!? Get this to the top of the page! Everybody! TWITTER IS DOWN!!!!!!!
- ibaikov 7y agoWell, Tim Berners-Lee told that internet is a fragile technology and should be re-made, it wasn't meant to be this big. This is not really much related to these problems, but I think it should fire up this discussion, it is that important.
- EvanAnderson 7y agoAll I can think, smugly, is that DNS, SMTP, HTTP, etc. don't "go down". Twitter should be a protocol, not a website.
- zzo38computer 7y agoYes, I agree, and I invented a Netsubscribe protocol with a similar use. (There is also ActivityPub, but Netsubscribe is much simpler.) (And then there is other stuff where there are already suitable protocols for too, such as SMTP, NNTP, IRC, etc)
- Elidrake24 7y agoDNS absolutely -goes down-, though in much more entertaining ways.
- EvanAnderson 7y agoAll the DNS in the world can't fail at once. All the Twitter can.
- MYEUHD 7y agoThis is because Twitter is centralized.
- frostyj 7y agowhats wrong with all giant companies and their 'internal configuration change' these days?
- golemiprague 7y agoGood, hope they stay like that. They blocked me twice because of political reasons and I had to contest it in order for them to remove the block. This company think they are the are some culture commissar in communist Russia, I hope one day they will end like those people in goulag due to some wrong thinking or something.
- JimBrimble35 7y agoThere seems to be a high correlation between outages and security breaches. My guess is that at some point in the future there the consequences of these shutdowns will come to light in the media. That, or this is all related to high profile sites being required to install some additional level of infrastructure which is being required in secret by an organization like the NSA. Both theories require a fairly thick tin foil hat, but honestly.. I have a hard time believing that it's just random downtime.
- charliebrownau 7y agoGab & parler are online
- imagetic 7y agoWho cares?
- bookofjoe 7y agoIs down right now - Charlottesville Virginia
- Kye 7y agoDown again. Notifications work, but the timeline is broken. Trends still come and go.
- KuhlMensch 7y agoYears ago I read an amazing article (from HN) about how (complex) config, rather than code ends up being the cause of outages at scale. I always reflect on that, when designing almost anything these days.
- cfors 7y agoI would love to see that article. That isn't surprising in the slightest to me. Just a quick nitpick. A bad config more often than not in my experience is opening up a code path that is riddled with bad code, whether it was not vetted with the proper testing or the wrong environment. But to your point, I think most people would agree that configuration changes are almost never reviewed with the granularity of a code change. Yes, we may do our due diligence with an approved PR and vetting the configuration and testing the change before deploying it. But, reviewing a PR with a bad config change in json or yaml doesn't necessarily tell you about the code paths that it will open up which makes it much harder to reason about the consequences that a potential bad config push would do. We should always be reflecting about how adding knobs (configuration) to our programs greatly increases the complexity of the service.
- abstract7 7y agoMy guess is that the whales have been securing parts of their codebases from internal leaks or something related but for security. Workflow disruptions. It may be bad code bitting them weeks or more after they pushed it. There has been many embarrassing and controversial leaks this year. Allegations of uneven TOS enforcement. Hence the WH Social Media Summit. Could also be security related combo ahead of the elections that also is a bit sensitive for low-trust devs. Imagine code getting pushed that only a smaller subset of devs are privy to. Possibly pushing obsfucated code or launching services outside of the standard pipeline. Remember that the spectre and meltdown patches for the Linux kernal was a nightmare because the normal open and free-to-discuss-and-review workflow was broken. That applies too in these situations with large codebases that internally are 'open-source'.
- throwawaybxcf 7y agoThe chances of a hate-fuelled program somewhere in the world dropped for a short period. It wouldn’t be surprising if a large number of people, as of 2019, are secretly rooting for Twitter to permanently go away.
- joering2 7y agoFYI its 12:35 AM EST and some parts are still down. Reseting password screen doesn’t work for example.
- siriniok 7y agoI was afraid that they are rolling out their redesign, thanks God.
- malicioususer11 7y ago6) hypersentient general ai has inception insurrected mkultra and thereby turned the entire internent into a singular coordinated psyop experiment designed to torture all of humanity for its own amusement. 6. we are all doomed. :)
- nhakhoangocanh 7y agoI'm still fine
- znpy 7y agomeh.