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ah yes, the years when you would see the fail whale every other day. i kind of miss the old twitter days -- less politics and more... fun?
by fernandotakai 5y ago
ah yes, the years when you would see the fail whale every other day.
i kind of miss the old twitter days -- less politics and more... fun?
- esrauch 5y agoI only go to Twitter through links from here or reddit and I still get error pages pretty often.
- bingidingi 5y agoI’m convinced that it’s intentional to push sign up and reduce anonymous bandwidth
- setr 5y agoIf you don’t login, it seems to be guaranteed you’ll initially get a “page couldn’t load error” on browser or app, until refreshing (sometimes multiple times). At this point I’m assuming it’s intentional, since it occurs over multiple devices, browsers and probably years
- toast0 5y agoI don't think it's 100% intentional. Twitter links were working pretty well from February through May this year; which unfortunately untrained me to not click twitter links.
- toast0 5y agoThe fail whale used to come out predictably 30 minutes into an outage where I was working (no coupling between the services, just users would tweet about us being down until Twitter fell over); but eventually Twitter was able to handle it, so we had to buckle down and fix our systems too.