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Twitter Experiences Widespread Outages

91 points by app4soft 6y ago

odyslam 6y ago
Yup, down.
- app4soft 6y ago
  For me it down just few minutes ago. For curious reason, Nitter still can parse Twitter API (read-only).[0] BTW, Android Central's provided a good tip, when there was "Twitter Down" on September 23, 2020[1] > If you're impacted, your best bet is leaving things alone for a few hours and waiting for Twitter to fix their mistake; maybe go outside to enjoy the autumn air (weather on the East Coast is surprisingly nice today). Just apply a hotfix: $ sed `s/autumn/spring/g` [0] https://nitter.fdn.fr/twittersupport https://nitter.fdn.fr/twittersupport [1] https://www.androidcentral.com/twitter-users-accidentally-limited-locked-and-kicked-due-error https://www.androidcentral.com/twitter-users-accidentally-li...
calhoun137 6y ago
This must be a configuration update that went wrong. I am sure of this because thats always the PR angle. Does anyone know what is really going on here?
- lmm 6y ago
  I mean that's the genuine cause of most outages. People test code changes in multiple environments but make configuration changes on prod (assuming they even have a staging environment for their config, which is rarely).
  - calhoun137 6y ago
    Thats true! But thats sort of like saying there was an accident on the highway because 2 cars crashed. There are lots of ways a configuration change could disrupt service, all I am getting at in my previous comment was having even more transparency when stuff like this happens instead of boilerplate statements about config changes, is something I would appreciate and this would give me more confidence in the dev team as well.
wafflesraccoon 6y ago
This is the homepage for me currently, any idea what's going on? Edit: Extracted the image via the GET call, did Twitter's image hosting server get compromised? https://imgur.com/a/fjWyIFH https://imgur.com/a/fjWyIFH
- chrisseaton 6y ago
  > any idea what's going on? wtf It's just down. Not sure you're going to get a detailed root-cause analysis right now. > Extracted the image via the GET call, did Twitter's image hosting server get compromised? What makes you leap to that conclusion? That's just their login page.
  - wafflesraccoon 6y ago
    I had not seen it in years, I figured it was a generic blue background or something.
    - throwanem 6y ago
      That's all I've ever seen it to have, too. Maybe a recent A/B test with a low experiment cohort % or something?
      - johneth 6y ago
        It's been like this for at least several months.
  - throwanem 6y ago
    Wait, really? Not like I'm a heavy Twitter user, but I did have an account there I used daily a few years back, and another I made just a few days ago for a bit - thus, a recent visit to the login page. And I have never seen that glitchcore stuff before. edit: Google Image Search doesn't seem to know much about it either, with only four results, all from Pinterest [1]. I'd expect a lot more hits, if it had been Twitter's login page background for as long as you seem to suggest here. Maybe I've misunderstood what you're saying? [1] https://www.google.com/search?sa=G&hl=en&tbs=simg%3ACAQStgEJssowZzI5MXMaqgELELCMpwgaOgo4CAQSFLERkC22Hv4fizSJH5chowy9Po8MGhomwuGnyDaAmG-SHfIMyLV-8h6ya6RAfWmh2iAFMAQMCxCOrv4IGgoKCAgBEgRLJ-UkDAsQne3BCRpLChsKCGxhbmd1YWdl2qWI9gMLCgkvai8yc2hfeTQKFgoDZG902qWI9gMLCgkvbS8wMjdjdGcKFAoDYXJ02qWI9gMJCgcvbS8wamp3DA&tbm=isch&biw=1298&bih=863 https://www.google.com/search?sa=G&hl=en&tbs=simg%3ACAQStgEJ...
gouthamve 6y ago
https://status.twitterstat.us/ https://status.twitterstat.us/ is disappointing.
- hivacruz 6y ago
  Like many others unfortunately.
- messutied 6y ago
  I think their current status page is https://api.twitterstat.us/ https://api.twitterstat.us/ actually.
hivacruz 6y ago
My Twitter app using their API doesn't seem to be impacted by the outage this time. It was the case earlier this morning and last night. I hope they will post an article about what happened.
- app4soft 6y ago
  > My Twitter app using their API doesn't seem to be impacted by the outage this time. Yeah, Nitter[0] also still working, so probably issue is somewhere in between frontend and API/database, but not in API/database itself. Has not tested Twidere[1] & Cawbird[2], but just wont try it now myself to prevent any issues on my mobile/PC (NOTE: If you are not used those apps before you may not try to use it now, because it requires on time load of Twitter site to verify token — actually it may/would not work due to actual issue with Twitter frontend issue). Also, seems like Twitter bots still can tweet (as all of them uses just a Twitter API, not a Twitter frontend), for example here is HNTweets just tweeted actual thread as it just reached HN frontpage.[3] P.P.S. Here is previous dishonored HN top thread[4] on actual "Twitter Down" — it was really a bad idea to flag this Ask HN thread.[5] UPD: Just checked Twidere — app able to tweet[6], so Twitter API is OK. UPD2: Insider Paper tweeted[7]: > Twitter says the data team is investigating system irregularity currently affecting all Twitter API v2 endpoints. In result, Twitter tweet feeds is still not loading for many users. [0] https://nitter.fdn.fr/TwitterSupport/status/1383221595804602370 https://nitter.fdn.fr/TwitterSupport/status/1383221595804602... [1] https://nitter.fdn.fr/TwidereProject https://nitter.fdn.fr/TwidereProject [2] https://nitter.fdn.fr/CawbirdClient https://nitter.fdn.fr/CawbirdClient [3] https://nitter.fdn.fr/HNTweets/status/1383404896930603017 https://nitter.fdn.fr/HNTweets/status/1383404896930603017 [4] https://nitter.fdn.fr/HNTweets/status/1383216280992321546 https://nitter.fdn.fr/HNTweets/status/1383216280992321546 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26840441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26840441 [6] https://nitter.fdn.fr/app4soft/status/1383423370847342592 https://nitter.fdn.fr/app4soft/status/1383423370847342592 [7] https://nitter.fdn.fr/TheInsiderPaper/status/1383414748771864585 https://nitter.fdn.fr/TheInsiderPaper/status/138341474877186...
- sp332 6y ago
  I was able to browser for a while this morning, although I noticed one of my preferences had changed and it would not save. A few minutes later, it forcibly logged me out.
Andrex 6y ago
Does the world seem a little brighter and happier to anyone else?
- fighterpilot 6y ago
  Just knowing that it's down makes me feel weirdly lighter. There's something about just knowing of the existence of the perpetual rhetorical conflict on there that contributes a tiny amount of background chronic stress.
  - throwaway894345 6y ago
    I can deal with the chronic rhetorical conflict; the bit that troubles me is that this is divisiveness and hate as a business strategy. It’s the deliberate product of much of Silicon Valley’s ingenuity if not also it’s ethos.
    - qrbLPHiKpiux 6y ago
      Hate sells well and many are eager to buy.
- deleted 6y ago
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- Bukhmanizer 6y ago
  I don’t find Twitter more toxic than any other website. Much less so than reddit. It’s mostly about who you follow I think. I heavily mute accounts that tweet any political/inflammatory rhetoric on either side.
  - aero-glide2 6y ago
    Reddit front page is too political. I'm non-American so most of it isn't even relevant to me. I wish all social media had a "No Politics" button for the user to auto-hide all political posts.
jansan 6y ago
It's a good opportunity to uninstall another social media app.
- app4soft 6y ago
  Twitter apps (official & unofficial) *probably* are not affected as Twitter API still working well... BTW, Join Mastodon! (just reminds me story with "SourceForge <-> GitHub <-> GitLab")
kmfrk 6y ago
Twitter is somewhat back and seems to have reset settings like whether I want to see others' liked tweets. I very much do not, and yet here they are. Might be worth reinspcting your other settings.
zulfazli 6y ago
Haven't logged in for years and attempted to since 2 hours ago but kept getting errors saying something went wrong on twitter's end. Me attempting to log in brought twitter down I guess.
- daniel-thompson 6y ago
  Thank you, keep up the good work!
jeffbee 6y ago
Down for me now, and reports on downdetector indicate also 12 hours ago. Scheduled workload gone amok?
lucasjans 6y ago
According to the status page, no issues in the last 180 days. But I can't login. https://status.twitterstat.us/pages/history/564314ae3309c22c3b0002fa https://status.twitterstat.us/pages/history/564314ae3309c22c... Why the lack of transparency?
- app4soft 6y ago
  > No incidents in the last 180 days Guess, there is issue in https://status.twitterstat.us https://status.twitterstat.us itself - it parses Twitter API, and that is why there are NO issues (Twitter API is working even now!).
- kjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 6y ago
  Companies have no incentive to keep their status page accurate. I mean look at AWS, its always green!
thepasswordis 6y ago
Imagine how much more peaceful, productive, and happy the world would be if this ended up being permanent. An interesting metric I’d love would be: how many suicides per year could be stopped if twitter didn’t exist? I wonder if their is any number high enough to get them to stop what they’re doing.
timdaub 6y ago
Nice. Maybe they should keep it that way.
prawn 6y ago
I've noticed no issues (iOS app on phone and tweetdeck.twitter.com on laptop). Something that always puzzles me is the spite towards Twitter. It must be incredibly hard to avoid negativity in some circles/locales? My feed is generally very positive.
- app4soft 6y ago
  > I've noticed no issues (iOS app on phone and tweetdeck.twitter.com on laptop). Yes, its expected for all apps (official & unofficial) which uses Twitter API directly. Actual issue is NOT a Twitter API issue — it is highly likely Twitter site frontend issue instead.
  - jeromegv 6y ago
    More than frontend, I use Tweetbot and nothing works at all since last night. "over capacity" , etc.
    - app4soft 6y ago
      Actually some Nitter instances able to parse Twitter API.[0] [0] https://nitter.cc/app4soft/status/1383423370847342592#m https://nitter.cc/app4soft/status/1383423370847342592#m
tomcooks 6y ago
Who cares, why is this news?
- EamonnMR 6y ago
  Hacker News is the fallback platform for discussion for a few communities like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook. (Or at least our slice of it)
  - app4soft 6y ago
    > Hacker News is the fallback platform for discussio But, for curious reason "Ask HN" thread on actual "Twitter Down" subj was dishonored and removed from frontpage, so many of us was left unnoticed in the next 12 hours.[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26840441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26840441
WesolyKubeczek 6y ago
I don't care about Twitter so much that I've come here to say it. ;-)
skeeter2020 6y ago
And yet my world just carried on as normal, even the high-tech, computer-centric parts. Almost as if twitter plays no meaningful role in any aspect of my being...
messutied 6y ago
They are reporting about it here https://api.twitterstat.us/ https://api.twitterstat.us/
deleted 6y ago
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babesh 6y ago
Twitter was originally good. It was and is a technology for following people you are interested in. The corruption started because of the need to make money and how they chose to do it, namely advertising. Advertising is brainwashing based on limbic hacking. The best limbic hacking is outrage. Everything that you didn’t consciously choose to be in your feed is brainwashing. This includes promoted ads and trending. These approaches have gone through many optimization cycles and are much optimized. Control over this brainwashing power is corrupting and @jack now wields it for his politics as well. Perhaps he couldn’t help himself. The same techniques used in advertising are now used to inject political stances into your mind and heart. Also, @jack has used the power to not only to amplify opinions he favors but to silence those that he disfavors.
- metalliqaz 6y ago
  Same with Facebook. Same with crap journalism. Junk food for the brain gets clicks. Just like sexy women got eyeballs on magazines, rage-bait gets clicks on links. The big question is... how are we going to pay for the web without advertising? Nobody has been able to answer that question. The closest we seem to have is things like Patreon, and that doesn't cut it for big services.
  - babesh 6y ago
    Massive benefactors just like in the old days. Possibly crowdfunding. Would be interesting to see how far that can go.
- babesh 6y ago
  The USA isn’t a utopian democracy. Never has been. It’s an oligarchy of power interests. The Biden election represents tech’s full entry into the oligarchy. It did this by explicitly weighing in on the political battle. Now that it’s hand is on the tiller, it can’t help itself and will keep its hand on the tiller. Expect tech to weigh in on more and more issues of the country. Initially it was label itself as an erstwhile benign force, then beneficent, and then finally its mask will be unveiled. Remember when big oil had so much power and wielded if? Now it’s big tech with so much power and it’s wielding it.

91 points by app4soft 6y ago

odyslam 6y ago

Yup, down.

app4soft 6y ago
For me it down just few minutes ago. For curious reason, Nitter still can parse Twitter API (read-only).[0] BTW, Android Central's provided a good tip, when there was "Twitter Down" on September 23, 2020[1] > If you're impacted, your best bet is leaving things alone for a few hours and waiting for Twitter to fix their mistake; maybe go outside to enjoy the autumn air (weather on the East Coast is surprisingly nice today). Just apply a hotfix: $ sed `s/autumn/spring/g` [0] https://nitter.fdn.fr/twittersupport https://nitter.fdn.fr/twittersupport [1] https://www.androidcentral.com/twitter-users-accidentally-limited-locked-and-kicked-due-error https://www.androidcentral.com/twitter-users-accidentally-li...

calhoun137 6y ago

This must be a configuration update that went wrong. I am sure of this because thats always the PR angle. Does anyone know what is really going on here?

lmm 6y ago
I mean that's the genuine cause of most outages. People test code changes in multiple environments but make configuration changes on prod (assuming they even have a staging environment for their config, which is rarely).
- calhoun137 6y ago
  Thats true! But thats sort of like saying there was an accident on the highway because 2 cars crashed. There are lots of ways a configuration change could disrupt service, all I am getting at in my previous comment was having even more transparency when stuff like this happens instead of boilerplate statements about config changes, is something I would appreciate and this would give me more confidence in the dev team as well.

wafflesraccoon 6y ago

This is the homepage for me currently, any idea what's going on? Edit: Extracted the image via the GET call, did Twitter's image hosting server get compromised? https://imgur.com/a/fjWyIFH https://imgur.com/a/fjWyIFH

chrisseaton 6y ago
> any idea what's going on? wtf It's just down. Not sure you're going to get a detailed root-cause analysis right now. > Extracted the image via the GET call, did Twitter's image hosting server get compromised? What makes you leap to that conclusion? That's just their login page.
- wafflesraccoon 6y ago
  I had not seen it in years, I figured it was a generic blue background or something.
  - throwanem 6y ago
    That's all I've ever seen it to have, too. Maybe a recent A/B test with a low experiment cohort % or something?
    - johneth 6y ago
      It's been like this for at least several months.
- throwanem 6y ago
  Wait, really? Not like I'm a heavy Twitter user, but I did have an account there I used daily a few years back, and another I made just a few days ago for a bit - thus, a recent visit to the login page. And I have never seen that glitchcore stuff before. edit: Google Image Search doesn't seem to know much about it either, with only four results, all from Pinterest [1]. I'd expect a lot more hits, if it had been Twitter's login page background for as long as you seem to suggest here. Maybe I've misunderstood what you're saying? [1] https://www.google.com/search?sa=G&hl=en&tbs=simg%3ACAQStgEJssowZzI5MXMaqgELELCMpwgaOgo4CAQSFLERkC22Hv4fizSJH5chowy9Po8MGhomwuGnyDaAmG-SHfIMyLV-8h6ya6RAfWmh2iAFMAQMCxCOrv4IGgoKCAgBEgRLJ-UkDAsQne3BCRpLChsKCGxhbmd1YWdl2qWI9gMLCgkvai8yc2hfeTQKFgoDZG902qWI9gMLCgkvbS8wMjdjdGcKFAoDYXJ02qWI9gMJCgcvbS8wamp3DA&tbm=isch&biw=1298&bih=863 https://www.google.com/search?sa=G&hl=en&tbs=simg%3ACAQStgEJ...

gouthamve 6y ago

https://status.twitterstat.us/ https://status.twitterstat.us/ is disappointing.

hivacruz 6y ago
Like many others unfortunately.
messutied 6y ago
I think their current status page is https://api.twitterstat.us/ https://api.twitterstat.us/ actually.

hivacruz 6y ago

My Twitter app using their API doesn't seem to be impacted by the outage this time. It was the case earlier this morning and last night. I hope they will post an article about what happened.

app4soft 6y ago
> My Twitter app using their API doesn't seem to be impacted by the outage this time. Yeah, Nitter[0] also still working, so probably issue is somewhere in between frontend and API/database, but not in API/database itself. Has not tested Twidere[1] & Cawbird[2], but just wont try it now myself to prevent any issues on my mobile/PC (NOTE: If you are not used those apps before you may not try to use it now, because it requires on time load of Twitter site to verify token — actually it may/would not work due to actual issue with Twitter frontend issue). Also, seems like Twitter bots still can tweet (as all of them uses just a Twitter API, not a Twitter frontend), for example here is HNTweets just tweeted actual thread as it just reached HN frontpage.[3] P.P.S. Here is previous dishonored HN top thread[4] on actual "Twitter Down" — it was really a bad idea to flag this Ask HN thread.[5] UPD: Just checked Twidere — app able to tweet[6], so Twitter API is OK. UPD2: Insider Paper tweeted[7]: > Twitter says the data team is investigating system irregularity currently affecting all Twitter API v2 endpoints. In result, Twitter tweet feeds is still not loading for many users. [0] https://nitter.fdn.fr/TwitterSupport/status/1383221595804602370 https://nitter.fdn.fr/TwitterSupport/status/1383221595804602... [1] https://nitter.fdn.fr/TwidereProject https://nitter.fdn.fr/TwidereProject [2] https://nitter.fdn.fr/CawbirdClient https://nitter.fdn.fr/CawbirdClient [3] https://nitter.fdn.fr/HNTweets/status/1383404896930603017 https://nitter.fdn.fr/HNTweets/status/1383404896930603017 [4] https://nitter.fdn.fr/HNTweets/status/1383216280992321546 https://nitter.fdn.fr/HNTweets/status/1383216280992321546 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26840441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26840441 [6] https://nitter.fdn.fr/app4soft/status/1383423370847342592 https://nitter.fdn.fr/app4soft/status/1383423370847342592 [7] https://nitter.fdn.fr/TheInsiderPaper/status/1383414748771864585 https://nitter.fdn.fr/TheInsiderPaper/status/138341474877186...
sp332 6y ago
I was able to browser for a while this morning, although I noticed one of my preferences had changed and it would not save. A few minutes later, it forcibly logged me out.

Andrex 6y ago

Does the world seem a little brighter and happier to anyone else?

fighterpilot 6y ago
Just knowing that it's down makes me feel weirdly lighter. There's something about just knowing of the existence of the perpetual rhetorical conflict on there that contributes a tiny amount of background chronic stress.
- throwaway894345 6y ago
  I can deal with the chronic rhetorical conflict; the bit that troubles me is that this is divisiveness and hate as a business strategy. It’s the deliberate product of much of Silicon Valley’s ingenuity if not also it’s ethos.
  - qrbLPHiKpiux 6y ago
    Hate sells well and many are eager to buy.
deleted 6y ago
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Bukhmanizer 6y ago
I don’t find Twitter more toxic than any other website. Much less so than reddit. It’s mostly about who you follow I think. I heavily mute accounts that tweet any political/inflammatory rhetoric on either side.
- aero-glide2 6y ago
  Reddit front page is too political. I'm non-American so most of it isn't even relevant to me. I wish all social media had a "No Politics" button for the user to auto-hide all political posts.

jansan 6y ago

It's a good opportunity to uninstall another social media app.

app4soft 6y ago
Twitter apps (official & unofficial) *probably* are not affected as Twitter API still working well... BTW, Join Mastodon! (just reminds me story with "SourceForge <-> GitHub <-> GitLab")

kmfrk 6y ago

Twitter is somewhat back and seems to have reset settings like whether I want to see others' liked tweets. I very much do not, and yet here they are. Might be worth reinspcting your other settings.

zulfazli 6y ago

Haven't logged in for years and attempted to since 2 hours ago but kept getting errors saying something went wrong on twitter's end. Me attempting to log in brought twitter down I guess.

daniel-thompson 6y ago
Thank you, keep up the good work!

jeffbee 6y ago

Down for me now, and reports on downdetector indicate also 12 hours ago. Scheduled workload gone amok?

lucasjans 6y ago

According to the status page, no issues in the last 180 days. But I can't login. https://status.twitterstat.us/pages/history/564314ae3309c22c3b0002fa https://status.twitterstat.us/pages/history/564314ae3309c22c... Why the lack of transparency?

app4soft 6y ago
> No incidents in the last 180 days Guess, there is issue in https://status.twitterstat.us https://status.twitterstat.us itself - it parses Twitter API, and that is why there are NO issues (Twitter API is working even now!).
kjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 6y ago
Companies have no incentive to keep their status page accurate. I mean look at AWS, its always green!

thepasswordis 6y ago

Imagine how much more peaceful, productive, and happy the world would be if this ended up being permanent. An interesting metric I’d love would be: how many suicides per year could be stopped if twitter didn’t exist? I wonder if their is any number high enough to get them to stop what they’re doing.

timdaub 6y ago

Nice. Maybe they should keep it that way.

prawn 6y ago

I've noticed no issues (iOS app on phone and tweetdeck.twitter.com on laptop). Something that always puzzles me is the spite towards Twitter. It must be incredibly hard to avoid negativity in some circles/locales? My feed is generally very positive.

app4soft 6y ago
> I've noticed no issues (iOS app on phone and tweetdeck.twitter.com on laptop). Yes, its expected for all apps (official & unofficial) which uses Twitter API directly. Actual issue is NOT a Twitter API issue — it is highly likely Twitter site frontend issue instead.
- jeromegv 6y ago
  More than frontend, I use Tweetbot and nothing works at all since last night. "over capacity" , etc.
  - app4soft 6y ago
    Actually some Nitter instances able to parse Twitter API.[0] [0] https://nitter.cc/app4soft/status/1383423370847342592#m https://nitter.cc/app4soft/status/1383423370847342592#m

tomcooks 6y ago

Who cares, why is this news?

EamonnMR 6y ago
Hacker News is the fallback platform for discussion for a few communities like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook. (Or at least our slice of it)
- app4soft 6y ago
  > Hacker News is the fallback platform for discussio But, for curious reason "Ask HN" thread on actual "Twitter Down" subj was dishonored and removed from frontpage, so many of us was left unnoticed in the next 12 hours.[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26840441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26840441

WesolyKubeczek 6y ago

I don't care about Twitter so much that I've come here to say it. ;-)

skeeter2020 6y ago

And yet my world just carried on as normal, even the high-tech, computer-centric parts. Almost as if twitter plays no meaningful role in any aspect of my being...

messutied 6y ago

They are reporting about it here https://api.twitterstat.us/ https://api.twitterstat.us/

deleted 6y ago

[deleted]

babesh 6y ago

Twitter was originally good. It was and is a technology for following people you are interested in. The corruption started because of the need to make money and how they chose to do it, namely advertising. Advertising is brainwashing based on limbic hacking. The best limbic hacking is outrage. Everything that you didn’t consciously choose to be in your feed is brainwashing. This includes promoted ads and trending. These approaches have gone through many optimization cycles and are much optimized. Control over this brainwashing power is corrupting and @jack now wields it for his politics as well. Perhaps he couldn’t help himself. The same techniques used in advertising are now used to inject political stances into your mind and heart. Also, @jack has used the power to not only to amplify opinions he favors but to silence those that he disfavors.

metalliqaz 6y ago
Same with Facebook. Same with crap journalism. Junk food for the brain gets clicks. Just like sexy women got eyeballs on magazines, rage-bait gets clicks on links. The big question is... how are we going to pay for the web without advertising? Nobody has been able to answer that question. The closest we seem to have is things like Patreon, and that doesn't cut it for big services.
- babesh 6y ago
  Massive benefactors just like in the old days. Possibly crowdfunding. Would be interesting to see how far that can go.
babesh 6y ago
The USA isn’t a utopian democracy. Never has been. It’s an oligarchy of power interests. The Biden election represents tech’s full entry into the oligarchy. It did this by explicitly weighing in on the political battle. Now that it’s hand is on the tiller, it can’t help itself and will keep its hand on the tiller. Expect tech to weigh in on more and more issues of the country. Initially it was label itself as an erstwhile benign force, then beneficent, and then finally its mask will be unveiled. Remember when big oil had so much power and wielded if? Now it’s big tech with so much power and it’s wielding it.