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A 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 ow

A 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 ago
Move fast and break things
- malhotra_chetan 7y ago
  I 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 ago
Mercury is in Retrograde through July 31.
- tunesmith 7y ago
  I never notice problems when I don't know about that, so I wish I hadn't read that. :)
- showdeadforever 7y ago
  I'll bet you like Bloc Party :)
- loblollyboy 7y ago
  lol
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 :)
- nemof 7y ago
  honestly i feel unmoored without tweetdeck on my second screen ticking by. i realise this is probably a bad thing, but getting my daily news and info, i'd say 90% comes from twitter.
- Nightshaxx 7y ago
  I got rid of all of those except Gmail (need it for work, school, etc) and WhatsApp (only use for one group chat) and it is very freeing. I realized social media (Instagram especially) breeds unhappiness with your life, while all of the models and "influencers" on it don't live realistic lives. In fact I've experienced first had that their posts are often doctored or don't acctually portray the situation accurately.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
  Not those things specifically, but take a step back and look at the Rube Goldberg inspired complexity of modern technology and despair.
eljimmy 7y ago
Yesterday, Stripe went down for a half hour, and the later yesterday, Google's Android Payment Validation API went down for more than 2 hours. Stripe at least acknowledged their downtime. Google was oblivious, made no update to any of their status pages. Really horrendous awareness and support from Google per usual.
- paulddraper 7y ago
  Giving Amazon a run for their money I see.
- deleted 7y ago
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- patmcguire 7y ago
  Odd coincidence, seems like it might have been some upstream banks having a bad SCA rollout
rococode 7y ago
Twitter is especially weird for this since it's often a platform where people talk about downtimes. I don't see this downtime mentioned on Reddit and I don't know of other sites where it might be discussed, so if Hacker News happened to go down at the same time, where would I go to talk about it with online strangers and find out if it's just me? Nowhere, I guess, I'd just wait it out with no extra insights on what's going on. A small reminder of what the world used to be like haha.
- georgehotelling 7y ago
  reddit feels like it has about a 4 hour lag time on most "breaking" events.
  - tgsovlerkhgsel 7y ago
    This is the time it takes for news in major subreddits to gather enough votes on the "new" tab to make it to the main subreddit front page, then the actual front page. Smaller subreddits seem to be less affected by this, which is why /r/toosoon (a subreddit dedicated to dark humor related to current events) is often surfaces news hours before other subs for people who have it in their subreddit list.
  - misterprime 7y ago
    It's on purpose ever since the revolt against Ellen Pao. Was it sparked by firing Valerie, the AMA admin?
- 52-6F-62 7y ago
  This gets pretty rowdy: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter https://downdetector.com/status/twitter
  - jfk13 7y ago
    For a simpler view of things, there's also https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
cambalache 7y ago
It makes me wonder if a powerful malicious agent can devise a complex operation (planting people in several key places) and wipe out most of the databases of one these places. It would be interesting to see what would it happen if suddenly all of twitter of facebook is deleted , puff!, gone in a second.
- idlewords 7y ago
  Actually deleting stuff at these scales takes many, many days if you don't want it to be trivially recoverable.
- gnulinux 7y ago
  You can't delete that much data in a matter of seconds digitally. You need to physically harm the hardware.
  - edwintorok 7y ago
    Wipe the encryption key of your SSD, small amount of data to wipe, and the whole SSD is unrecoverable. FWIW at least OCZ SSDs have an encryption key flashed into it even if you didn't turn encryption on. Putting a new firmware on it can wipe this key and make your old data inaccessible. Source: got a buggy OCZ firmware that failed to make the device appear on the SATA bus, only way OCZ could fix it was to install new firmware which wiped the key and hence my data was unrecoverable.
    - gnulinux 7y ago
      Interesting point. I stand corrected. Not sure why I didn't think that way.
- Keloo 7y ago
  I recommend you watching Mr.Robot :)
  - cambalache 7y ago
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jasoncartwright 7y ago

Move fast and break things

malhotra_chetan 7y ago
I 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 ago

Mercury is in Retrograde through July 31.

tunesmith 7y ago
I never notice problems when I don't know about that, so I wish I hadn't read that. :)
showdeadforever 7y ago
I'll bet you like Bloc Party :)
loblollyboy 7y ago
lol

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 :)

nemof 7y ago
honestly i feel unmoored without tweetdeck on my second screen ticking by. i realise this is probably a bad thing, but getting my daily news and info, i'd say 90% comes from twitter.
Nightshaxx 7y ago
I got rid of all of those except Gmail (need it for work, school, etc) and WhatsApp (only use for one group chat) and it is very freeing. I realized social media (Instagram especially) breeds unhappiness with your life, while all of the models and "influencers" on it don't live realistic lives. In fact I've experienced first had that their posts are often doctored or don't acctually portray the situation accurately.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
Not those things specifically, but take a step back and look at the Rube Goldberg inspired complexity of modern technology and despair.

eljimmy 7y ago

Yesterday, Stripe went down for a half hour, and the later yesterday, Google's Android Payment Validation API went down for more than 2 hours. Stripe at least acknowledged their downtime. Google was oblivious, made no update to any of their status pages. Really horrendous awareness and support from Google per usual.

paulddraper 7y ago
Giving Amazon a run for their money I see.
deleted 7y ago
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patmcguire 7y ago
Odd coincidence, seems like it might have been some upstream banks having a bad SCA rollout

rococode 7y ago

Twitter is especially weird for this since it's often a platform where people talk about downtimes. I don't see this downtime mentioned on Reddit and I don't know of other sites where it might be discussed, so if Hacker News happened to go down at the same time, where would I go to talk about it with online strangers and find out if it's just me? Nowhere, I guess, I'd just wait it out with no extra insights on what's going on. A small reminder of what the world used to be like haha.

georgehotelling 7y ago
reddit feels like it has about a 4 hour lag time on most "breaking" events.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 7y ago
  This is the time it takes for news in major subreddits to gather enough votes on the "new" tab to make it to the main subreddit front page, then the actual front page. Smaller subreddits seem to be less affected by this, which is why /r/toosoon (a subreddit dedicated to dark humor related to current events) is often surfaces news hours before other subs for people who have it in their subreddit list.
- misterprime 7y ago
  It's on purpose ever since the revolt against Ellen Pao. Was it sparked by firing Valerie, the AMA admin?
52-6F-62 7y ago
This gets pretty rowdy: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter https://downdetector.com/status/twitter
- jfk13 7y ago
  For a simpler view of things, there's also https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com

cambalache 7y ago

It makes me wonder if a powerful malicious agent can devise a complex operation (planting people in several key places) and wipe out most of the databases of one these places. It would be interesting to see what would it happen if suddenly all of twitter of facebook is deleted , puff!, gone in a second.

idlewords 7y ago
Actually deleting stuff at these scales takes many, many days if you don't want it to be trivially recoverable.
gnulinux 7y ago
You can't delete that much data in a matter of seconds digitally. You need to physically harm the hardware.
- edwintorok 7y ago
  Wipe the encryption key of your SSD, small amount of data to wipe, and the whole SSD is unrecoverable. FWIW at least OCZ SSDs have an encryption key flashed into it even if you didn't turn encryption on. Putting a new firmware on it can wipe this key and make your old data inaccessible. Source: got a buggy OCZ firmware that failed to make the device appear on the SATA bus, only way OCZ could fix it was to install new firmware which wiped the key and hence my data was unrecoverable.
  - gnulinux 7y ago
    Interesting point. I stand corrected. Not sure why I didn't think that way.
Keloo 7y ago
I recommend you watching Mr.Robot :)
- cambalache 7y ago

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