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Twitter Is Down

181 points by Heliosmaster 4y ago

fab1an 4y ago
Yep, seems like it! The occassional existential reminder that it's Very Bad to be so dependent on a single platform....when Twitter goes down, my first instinct is to frantically search Twitter for information on the outage, putting me briefly into an unfun recursive loop.
r721 4y ago
Yeah, there's a spike on downdetector's chart: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
- app4soft 4y ago
  Yup: http://downrightnow.com/twitter http://downrightnow.com/twitter Also, it seems like even https://blog.twitter.com https://blog.twitter.com was down right now for a moment (but just restored).
smashah 4y ago
Was there an uptime guarantee on that Elon deal?
onion2k 4y ago
Bring back the fail whale.
phlhar 4y ago
Yeah down for me in Germany too. Looks like a bigger outage?
OldSamaritan 4y ago
Down in the Netherlands too.
santiagobasulto 4y ago
Anybody experiencing issues with AWS as well?
kilroy123 4y ago
Down in London
Waterluvian 4y ago
It’s been acting weird for days. A significant percentage of accounts I simply couldn’t ever reply to. Always the same accounts. But I could always reply to others.
- Pxtl 4y ago
  Browser refreshing cleared that issue up for me.
  - Waterluvian 4y ago
    Alas this is on the phone app.
- winternett 4y ago
  A failed algo update? Looks like the site was rolled back somehow, I got a few followers back that I previously lost, and others are complaining on there that they lost followers unexpectedly.
phlhar 4y ago
API status still all green: https://api.twitterstat.us/ https://api.twitterstat.us/
- app4soft 4y ago
  But Twidere[0] app (which uses API directly) has issues right now and can't fetch tweets from any accounts. [0] https://github.com/TwidereProject/Twidere-Android/releases/tag/4.1.8 https://github.com/TwidereProject/Twidere-Android/releases/t...
- brisky 4y ago
  Maybe the status indicator color change has to be approved by PR department..
- danjac 4y ago
  Status pages are the Iraqi Information Minister of websites.
  - bsaul 4y ago
    This should become a quote :)))
    - brk 4y ago
      " Status pages are the Iraqi Information Minister of websites. " -danjac
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
- boleary-gl 4y ago
  System status also green: https://status.twitterstat.us/ https://status.twitterstat.us/
  - 1970-01-01 4y ago
    All Systems Operational Twitter.com website is fine, its a 100% increase in errors situation. It's not an outage! (Said the SRE before he was sacked.)
EDevil 4y ago
Yes, for me.
qersist3nce 4y ago
Apart from downtime, does anyone know why soemtimes Twitter doesn't notify me on replies of my mentions or tweets?
- Waterluvian 4y ago
  That happens to me and it’s so detrimental. I end up ignoring people who reach out to me.
- agentdrtran 4y ago
  do you have the quality filter on?
  - qersist3nce 4y ago
    I didn't know there was such a filter. I'll check when Twitter comes back online.
  - mschuster91 4y ago
    I have all the helpful "filters" disabled and still regularly miss notifications for replies - it seems like Twitter doesn't notify you when a "small" account, the ones whose replies get hidden for some AI's random reason, replies.
- r721 4y ago
  There exist "advanced filter settings" - I don't remember which are the defaults, but you might want to look at them: "... Quality filter, when turned on, filters lower-quality content from your notifications, for example, duplicate Tweets or content that appears to be automated ... In addition to enabling the quality filter, you can choose to disable notifications from the following types of accounts: - Accounts that are new (that you don’t follow). - Accounts that don’t follow you (that you don’t follow). - Accounts you don’t follow. - Accounts with a default profile photo (that you don’t follow). - Accounts without a confirmed email address (that you don’t follow). - Accounts without a confirmed phone number (that you don’t follow)." https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/understanding-the-notifications-timeline https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/understand...
brun 4y ago
Did anyone get a chance to screenshot Dave Troy's tweets from this morning? They were quite sharp, directed at Elon and Twitter Inc. Just a coincidence the platform goes down minutes after these tweets get posted? Edit - had a tab open and managed to grab some of the points here: https://imgur.com/a/7AlBlXw https://imgur.com/a/7AlBlXw
- danso 4y ago
  People are vitriolic to Twitter quite regularly.
  - brun 4y ago
    Yeah.. these[1] just didn't feel like light-weight swings given Dave's background with Twitter [1] https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1547547608251568128 https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1547547608251568128
deleted 4y ago
[deleted]
cdevroe 4y ago
Quick HN question... I posted this as well (prior to this post) and it was "flagged"? I titled mine "Twitter is down hard". Perhaps my titling made it seem like I was trying to be mean or something? As a developer, I was trying to convey that it was very much down across all apps, sites, services. I thought that was the proper parlance but perhaps not. To any HN admins, sorry! I meant nothing by it!
- evunveot 4y ago
  Your post shows up as two minutes after this one on /newest
  - cdevroe 4y ago
    Thanks for noting this. I checked the list before posting and after it published I didn't see any others similar. I guess I wasn't quick enough!
- r721 4y ago
  Some people don't like these posts and flag them, "flagged" usually means "flagged by HN users".
  - cdevroe 4y ago
    OK, good to know. I won't post stories like this any more. I just thought it was noteworthy.
    - juice_bus 4y ago
      It is noteworthy! You just lucked out, the internet is _weird_.
      - geekamongus 4y ago
        I wish _weird_ was all it was these days!
- 4y ago
AzzieElbab 4y ago
Down in Toronto
deleted 4y ago
[deleted]
djitz 4y ago
98Windows 4y ago
Maybe Elon has launched a DDOS
edandersen 4y ago
Mental health across the world is already improving.
- rvz 4y ago
  Exactly. When a global digital crack / cocaine drugs store closes down on a week day, at first there will be a large frustration from the 'users' queuing for their daily dose and then afterwards the effects of the drug will subside and they will move on, if it fails to reopen soon. Maybe not for Twitter once it shortly reopens its stores worldwide and the outrage machine, bots, manipulation and the melting down of the emotions of many users continues. Not good for the brain at all.
- Existenceblinks 4y ago
  Addicts take time to heal after quitting for months. So minutes or hours do not that matter!
- winternett 4y ago
  When it came back I had 2-4 more followers that I lost in days prior. I'm no rocket scientist, but that indicates to me that they might have restored something from a backup volume. Followers on Twitter and interactions have been stagnant for ages in my experience there, actually having followers probably makes no sense on most of these social accounts any more, as they are throttling how users see content so much to drive ad sales. If you really look at what goes viral on Twitter daily, and what trends constantly, it becomes very apparent that the entire experience is carefully managed by moderation and marketing that constantly leans towards sensational and controversial news... It's torturous to use Twitter now compared to years past, and they just don't care to change the user experience. I envision that most of the real people on the platform now only use it in small doses.
  - evanelias 4y ago
    > that indicates to me that they might have restored something from a backup volume Could just be stale/incorrect cache data getting wiped. That's more common in my experience.
MattIPv4 4y ago
TweetDeck is also down, returning `{"errors":[{"code":131,"message":"Internal error."}]}`. Edit: Looks like API calls from the Twitter web app are getting the same response too. Edit 2: TweetDeck now loads a login page rather than the JSON error. API calls seem to be returning `{"errors":[{"message":"Over capacity","code":130}]}` now.
- brycewray 4y ago
  I have a cron job to build my site every day at 1200 UTC so that it *will* access the Twitter API, to populate the contents of tweets that my site repros as fully static elements (the cron job is due to occasional glitches in image caching on Twitter’s part). I saw the job had failed but neither the host nor GitHub Actions seemed to be in trouble. Only when I pulled up the log and saw the API call error message did I realize what really was going on.
oezguerisbert 4y ago
I get an API Error telling me "Failed to fetch user details for logout: Missing auth headers", and every other API call has an 403. If I go to "api.twitter.com" the domain does not exist.
overthemoon 4y ago
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter still says it's up, definitely down though. Which is weird, normally they're pretty on top of things.
- aarondf 4y ago
  Possibly because the Twitter website loads, but all the requests to get the actual data are failing. I wonder if Down for Everyone views that as a 200 and moves along
  - seaerkin 4y ago
    ^ probs
- viraptor 4y ago
  The outrage is not evenly distributed. Could be location specific. I'm still seeing updates and did not experience any issues. So without annotating where the checks were made from, the monitoring could be confusing.
- pessimizer 4y ago
  It never thought HN was down last week, either.
krm01 4y ago
I was expecting/hoping to see the fail whale [1] again. [1] https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1987/fail-whale https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1987/fail-whale
raviisoccupied 4y ago
It is also down in Lisbon, Portugal. This could be global?
frankdejonge 4y ago
Back up in The Netherlands
phlhar 4y ago
I can load the feed again!
- phlhar 4y ago
  Still behaving sluggish and doesn't always load though
pickradio 4y ago
a-user-you-like 4y ago
chinathrow 4y ago
Looks like it's back up now.
QuiiBz 4y ago
It's back up for me (EU, France), was down for about ~30 minutes.
oezguerisbert 4y ago
I think its back up!
crikeyjoe 4y ago
deleted 4y ago
[deleted]
game-of-throws 4y ago
Nitter and all its mirrors are still online. Nitter is better than the twitter site for many reasons, but I never imagined uptime would be one of them! https://nitter.snopyta.org/twitter https://nitter.snopyta.org/twitter
- ObiWanFrijoles 4y ago
  Is it because they cache data? Their description says they use Twitter's unofficial API, which I guess just scrapes data using web URLs.
- whoibrar 4y ago
  List of Nitter instances (if above goes down) - https://nitter.net/ https://nitter.net/ - https://nitter.42l.fr/ https://nitter.42l.fr/ - https://nitter.pussthecat.org/ https://nitter.pussthecat.org/ - https://nitter.kavin.rocks/ https://nitter.kavin.rocks/ - more : https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
Matheo05 4y ago
Ok Elon, you can stop playing with it...
sidcool 4y ago
I was logged out of Twitter. Should I change my password?
pnemonic 4y ago
Oh No! Anyway..
timcavel 4y ago
[dead]
pulketo 4y ago
I hope someone else cares...
whoomp12342 4y ago
huh, layoffs went too far ya think?

181 points by Heliosmaster 4y ago

Yep, seems like it! The occassional existential reminder that it's Very Bad to be so dependent on a single platform....when Twitter goes down, my first instinct is to frantically search Twitter for information on the outage, putting me briefly into an unfun recursive loop.

r721 4y ago

Yeah, there's a spike on downdetector's chart: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

app4soft 4y ago
Yup: http://downrightnow.com/twitter http://downrightnow.com/twitter Also, it seems like even https://blog.twitter.com https://blog.twitter.com was down right now for a moment (but just restored).

smashah 4y ago

Was there an uptime guarantee on that Elon deal?

onion2k 4y ago

Bring back the fail whale.

phlhar 4y ago

Yeah down for me in Germany too. Looks like a bigger outage?

OldSamaritan 4y ago

Down in the Netherlands too.

santiagobasulto 4y ago

Anybody experiencing issues with AWS as well?

kilroy123 4y ago

Down in London

Waterluvian 4y ago

It’s been acting weird for days. A significant percentage of accounts I simply couldn’t ever reply to. Always the same accounts. But I could always reply to others.

Pxtl 4y ago
Browser refreshing cleared that issue up for me.
- Waterluvian 4y ago
  Alas this is on the phone app.
winternett 4y ago
A failed algo update? Looks like the site was rolled back somehow, I got a few followers back that I previously lost, and others are complaining on there that they lost followers unexpectedly.

phlhar 4y ago

API status still all green: https://api.twitterstat.us/ https://api.twitterstat.us/

app4soft 4y ago
But Twidere[0] app (which uses API directly) has issues right now and can't fetch tweets from any accounts. [0] https://github.com/TwidereProject/Twidere-Android/releases/tag/4.1.8 https://github.com/TwidereProject/Twidere-Android/releases/t...
brisky 4y ago
Maybe the status indicator color change has to be approved by PR department..
danjac 4y ago
Status pages are the Iraqi Information Minister of websites.
- bsaul 4y ago
  This should become a quote :)))
  - brk 4y ago
    " Status pages are the Iraqi Information Minister of websites. " -danjac
deleted 4y ago
[deleted]
boleary-gl 4y ago
System status also green: https://status.twitterstat.us/ https://status.twitterstat.us/
- 1970-01-01 4y ago
  All Systems Operational Twitter.com website is fine, its a 100% increase in errors situation. It's not an outage! (Said the SRE before he was sacked.)

EDevil 4y ago

Yes, for me.

qersist3nce 4y ago

Apart from downtime, does anyone know why soemtimes Twitter doesn't notify me on replies of my mentions or tweets?

Waterluvian 4y ago
That happens to me and it’s so detrimental. I end up ignoring people who reach out to me.
agentdrtran 4y ago
do you have the quality filter on?
- qersist3nce 4y ago
  I didn't know there was such a filter. I'll check when Twitter comes back online.
- mschuster91 4y ago
  I have all the helpful "filters" disabled and still regularly miss notifications for replies - it seems like Twitter doesn't notify you when a "small" account, the ones whose replies get hidden for some AI's random reason, replies.
r721 4y ago
There exist "advanced filter settings" - I don't remember which are the defaults, but you might want to look at them: "... Quality filter, when turned on, filters lower-quality content from your notifications, for example, duplicate Tweets or content that appears to be automated ... In addition to enabling the quality filter, you can choose to disable notifications from the following types of accounts: - Accounts that are new (that you don’t follow). - Accounts that don’t follow you (that you don’t follow). - Accounts you don’t follow. - Accounts with a default profile photo (that you don’t follow). - Accounts without a confirmed email address (that you don’t follow). - Accounts without a confirmed phone number (that you don’t follow)." https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/understanding-the-notifications-timeline https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/understand...

brun 4y ago

Did anyone get a chance to screenshot Dave Troy's tweets from this morning? They were quite sharp, directed at Elon and Twitter Inc. Just a coincidence the platform goes down minutes after these tweets get posted? Edit - had a tab open and managed to grab some of the points here: https://imgur.com/a/7AlBlXw https://imgur.com/a/7AlBlXw

danso 4y ago
People are vitriolic to Twitter quite regularly.
- brun 4y ago
  Yeah.. these[1] just didn't feel like light-weight swings given Dave's background with Twitter [1] https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1547547608251568128 https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1547547608251568128

deleted 4y ago

[deleted]

cdevroe 4y ago

Quick HN question... I posted this as well (prior to this post) and it was "flagged"? I titled mine "Twitter is down hard". Perhaps my titling made it seem like I was trying to be mean or something? As a developer, I was trying to convey that it was very much down across all apps, sites, services. I thought that was the proper parlance but perhaps not. To any HN admins, sorry! I meant nothing by it!

evunveot 4y ago
Your post shows up as two minutes after this one on /newest
- cdevroe 4y ago
  Thanks for noting this. I checked the list before posting and after it published I didn't see any others similar. I guess I wasn't quick enough!
r721 4y ago
Some people don't like these posts and flag them, "flagged" usually means "flagged by HN users".
- cdevroe 4y ago
  OK, good to know. I won't post stories like this any more. I just thought it was noteworthy.
  - juice_bus 4y ago
    It is noteworthy! You just lucked out, the internet is _weird_.
    - geekamongus 4y ago
      I wish _weird_ was all it was these days!
4y ago

AzzieElbab 4y ago

Down in Toronto

deleted 4y ago

[deleted]

djitz 4y ago

98Windows 4y ago

Maybe Elon has launched a DDOS

edandersen 4y ago

Mental health across the world is already improving.

rvz 4y ago
Exactly. When a global digital crack / cocaine drugs store closes down on a week day, at first there will be a large frustration from the 'users' queuing for their daily dose and then afterwards the effects of the drug will subside and they will move on, if it fails to reopen soon. Maybe not for Twitter once it shortly reopens its stores worldwide and the outrage machine, bots, manipulation and the melting down of the emotions of many users continues. Not good for the brain at all.
Existenceblinks 4y ago
Addicts take time to heal after quitting for months. So minutes or hours do not that matter!
winternett 4y ago
When it came back I had 2-4 more followers that I lost in days prior. I'm no rocket scientist, but that indicates to me that they might have restored something from a backup volume. Followers on Twitter and interactions have been stagnant for ages in my experience there, actually having followers probably makes no sense on most of these social accounts any more, as they are throttling how users see content so much to drive ad sales. If you really look at what goes viral on Twitter daily, and what trends constantly, it becomes very apparent that the entire experience is carefully managed by moderation and marketing that constantly leans towards sensational and controversial news... It's torturous to use Twitter now compared to years past, and they just don't care to change the user experience. I envision that most of the real people on the platform now only use it in small doses.
- evanelias 4y ago
  > that indicates to me that they might have restored something from a backup volume Could just be stale/incorrect cache data getting wiped. That's more common in my experience.

MattIPv4 4y ago

TweetDeck is also down, returning `{"errors":[{"code":131,"message":"Internal error."}]}`. Edit: Looks like API calls from the Twitter web app are getting the same response too. Edit 2: TweetDeck now loads a login page rather than the JSON error. API calls seem to be returning `{"errors":[{"message":"Over capacity","code":130}]}` now.

brycewray 4y ago
I have a cron job to build my site every day at 1200 UTC so that it *will* access the Twitter API, to populate the contents of tweets that my site repros as fully static elements (the cron job is due to occasional glitches in image caching on Twitter’s part). I saw the job had failed but neither the host nor GitHub Actions seemed to be in trouble. Only when I pulled up the log and saw the API call error message did I realize what really was going on.

oezguerisbert 4y ago

I get an API Error telling me "Failed to fetch user details for logout: Missing auth headers", and every other API call has an 403. If I go to "api.twitter.com" the domain does not exist.

overthemoon 4y ago

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter still says it's up, definitely down though. Which is weird, normally they're pretty on top of things.

aarondf 4y ago
Possibly because the Twitter website loads, but all the requests to get the actual data are failing. I wonder if Down for Everyone views that as a 200 and moves along
- seaerkin 4y ago
  ^ probs
viraptor 4y ago
The outrage is not evenly distributed. Could be location specific. I'm still seeing updates and did not experience any issues. So without annotating where the checks were made from, the monitoring could be confusing.
pessimizer 4y ago
It never thought HN was down last week, either.

krm01 4y ago

I was expecting/hoping to see the fail whale [1] again. [1] https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1987/fail-whale https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1987/fail-whale

raviisoccupied 4y ago

It is also down in Lisbon, Portugal. This could be global?

frankdejonge 4y ago

Back up in The Netherlands

phlhar 4y ago

I can load the feed again!

phlhar 4y ago
Still behaving sluggish and doesn't always load though

pickradio 4y ago

a-user-you-like 4y ago

chinathrow 4y ago

Looks like it's back up now.

QuiiBz 4y ago

It's back up for me (EU, France), was down for about ~30 minutes.

oezguerisbert 4y ago

I think its back up!

crikeyjoe 4y ago

deleted 4y ago

[deleted]

game-of-throws 4y ago

Nitter and all its mirrors are still online. Nitter is better than the twitter site for many reasons, but I never imagined uptime would be one of them! https://nitter.snopyta.org/twitter https://nitter.snopyta.org/twitter

ObiWanFrijoles 4y ago
Is it because they cache data? Their description says they use Twitter's unofficial API, which I guess just scrapes data using web URLs.
whoibrar 4y ago
List of Nitter instances (if above goes down) - https://nitter.net/ https://nitter.net/ - https://nitter.42l.fr/ https://nitter.42l.fr/ - https://nitter.pussthecat.org/ https://nitter.pussthecat.org/ - https://nitter.kavin.rocks/ https://nitter.kavin.rocks/ - more : https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

Matheo05 4y ago

Ok Elon, you can stop playing with it...

sidcool 4y ago

I was logged out of Twitter. Should I change my password?

pnemonic 4y ago

Oh No! Anyway..

timcavel 4y ago

[dead]

pulketo 4y ago

I hope someone else cares...

whoomp12342 4y ago

huh, layoffs went too far ya think?