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Ask HN: Can you log in to Twitter?

64 points by boramalper 4y ago

boramalper 4y ago
I do not recommend logging out as I believe it's broken now. I was trying to add 2FA to my account when I was asked to log out and could not log in back. Either it was fortuitous or I was the one who inadvertently broke it. :| edit (12-29T00:49Z): Inspecting dev console logs, it seems to be trying to load resources from `ton.local.twitter.com` which is unresolvable. edit (12-29T00:59Z): Seems to be resolved.
- deleted 4y ago
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jsscclr 4y ago
Nope! Actually got asked to log out.
donutshop 4y ago
No
jsk2600 4y ago
It's down for many: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
u320 4y ago
Nope, it worked fine until 5 minutes ago, got logged out and can't log in.
- u320 4y ago
  Ios app works fine though
lynndotpy 4y ago
Nope, it is down.
outside1234 4y ago
Nope - and can't fetch timeline either. The elawn apocalypse is upon us.
- stormwindy 4y ago
  GTA V reference?
  - outside1234 4y ago
    :)
dpedu 4y ago
The android app is working fine for me.
iKlsR 4y ago
It logged me out an hour ago and locked two empty accounts that I was in, then it randomly asked me to add 2fa, logged in again and was logged out shortly after. Console is saying "over capacity". Mobile is moving shaky as well but seems fine there for now.
killdozer 4y ago
No, the error i get is for the url `https://api.twitter.com/1.1/onboarding/sso_init.json https://api.twitter.com/1.1/onboarding/sso_init.json` and the error is "Over capacity" code 130. The client keeps looping on this call too so idk if the load will ever dissipate lol.
- centrinoblue 4y ago
  same
  - boramalper 4y ago
    Interesting, I was able to log in 12 min ago even though it was quite glitchy (took me a couple of refreshes to finally load the homepage).
- collectedparts 4y ago
  It doesn't seem to include any backoff, so any browser tab left open on that screen will keep tightlooping on it. Almost certainly exacerbating the problem. What should my mental model be for "where" the code that causes those repetitive API requests is coming from? JS logic deployed to a CDN somewhere? If so, seems it may be an interesting question of whether or not it's possible to ship a hotfix (add exponential backoff) to JS asset in time to be helpful in fighting an outage like this.
  - collectedparts 4y ago
    (self-reply) looks the API call is coming from a script in "main.ed70037a.js" which is loaded from: https://abs.twimg.com/responsive-web/client-web/main.ed70037a.js https://abs.twimg.com/responsive-web/client-web/main.ed70037... From nslookup, abs.twimg.com has canonical name twimg.twitter.map.fastly.net. Honestly pretty shocked that something at their scale could be depending on Fastly for core assets.
    - cowsandmilk 4y ago
      > Honestly pretty shocked that something at their scale could be depending on Fastly for core assets. Why would that be surprising? Fastly has many customers of similar scale. Amazon.com has fastly as one of the options to serve as their CDN (as was publicized when a fastly outage took down amazon briefly last year).
Herbstluft 4y ago
No, seems broken.
bribri 4y ago
nope
stu2010 4y ago
I was shown an error page with an option to refresh or log out, and refreshing just got the same error. Now login seems to be down.
ezoe 4y ago
So it has come to this. https://xkcd.com/1022/ https://xkcd.com/1022/
- ezoe 4y ago
  It seems to be backed to normal to me.
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aussiesnack 4y ago
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- theCrowing 4y ago
  Which sane adult person writes like that?
  - aussiesnack 4y ago
    Where is this 'sanity' claim?
    - theCrowing 4y ago
      My bad I hope you find the help you need.
      - aussiesnack 4y ago
        Really? Or is it that you think of a reference to poor mental health as a legitimate insult?
        theCrowing 4y ago
        Yes, really. <3
- d_e_solomon 4y ago
  You seem extremely angry about a Twitter outage. Have you considered going outside and getting some fresh air?
  - aussiesnack 4y ago
    More bitterly amused at how awful all social media platforms are than angry. I don't have a Twitter account and don't care about it at all. Though I do have a Mastodon account and am struck by how much it recapitulates most of Twitter's socially damaging affordances.
rk06 4y ago
No, I can't. I am on Android using web version.
runarberg 4y ago
Not me. Was automatically logged out of the web app, and am unable to log back in because error.
app4soft 4y ago
Yes, I had the same issue. Just right now logged in, and Twitter proposes next pop-up:[img] Boost your account security Protect your account with two-factor authentication. Once enrolled, you won’t be prompted to confirm your identity again. Learn more about #https://help.twitter.com/managing-your-account/two-factor-authentication. On this floating pop-up URL to help docs inserted with prefaced `#`, turning link into tweet search query:[0] Its weird. UPDATE: Twitter again logged me out and continuously flickering with "Error" popup: Error Something went wrong, but don’t fret — it’s not your fault. Let’s try again. UPDATE2: Now (0223 UTC), one minute after previous update, after refresh Twitter works again and keeps me logged in. UPDATE3: Twitter just logged me out again (0255 UTC). Since previous update I was able to tweet about issue with URL on "Boost your account security" pop-up.[1,2] UPDATE4: Twitter still flickering (0310 UTC) logging me in and out, but I was able to reply to ex-CEO on their "Works for me" claim with pop-up issue screen.[3] [img] https://i.imgur.com/rDwyTUe.png https://i.imgur.com/rDwyTUe.png [0] https://twitter.com/search?q=%23https%3A%2F%2Fhelp.twitter.com%2Fmanaging-your-account%2Ftwo-factor-authentication&src=hashtag_click https://twitter.com/search?q=%23https%3A%2F%2Fhelp.twitter.c... [1] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1608292548669227008 https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1608292548669227008 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34168885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34168885 [3] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1608298407814172679 https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1608298407814172679
gomijacogeo 4y ago
It was broken, then it worked, then it was broken, and now it works again. Also, remember, if you got logged out, you've been bumped out of 'latest' mode if you were using it.
cheri9 4y ago
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64 points by boramalper 4y ago

I do not recommend logging out as I believe it's broken now. I was trying to add 2FA to my account when I was asked to log out and could not log in back. Either it was fortuitous or I was the one who inadvertently broke it. :| edit (12-29T00:49Z): Inspecting dev console logs, it seems to be trying to load resources from `ton.local.twitter.com` which is unresolvable. edit (12-29T00:59Z): Seems to be resolved.

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jsscclr 4y ago

Nope! Actually got asked to log out.

donutshop 4y ago

jsk2600 4y ago

It's down for many: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

u320 4y ago

Nope, it worked fine until 5 minutes ago, got logged out and can't log in.

u320 4y ago
Ios app works fine though

lynndotpy 4y ago

Nope, it is down.

outside1234 4y ago

Nope - and can't fetch timeline either. The elawn apocalypse is upon us.

stormwindy 4y ago
GTA V reference?
- outside1234 4y ago
  :)

dpedu 4y ago

The android app is working fine for me.

iKlsR 4y ago

It logged me out an hour ago and locked two empty accounts that I was in, then it randomly asked me to add 2fa, logged in again and was logged out shortly after. Console is saying "over capacity". Mobile is moving shaky as well but seems fine there for now.

killdozer 4y ago

No, the error i get is for the url `https://api.twitter.com/1.1/onboarding/sso_init.json https://api.twitter.com/1.1/onboarding/sso_init.json` and the error is "Over capacity" code 130. The client keeps looping on this call too so idk if the load will ever dissipate lol.

centrinoblue 4y ago
same
- boramalper 4y ago
  Interesting, I was able to log in 12 min ago even though it was quite glitchy (took me a couple of refreshes to finally load the homepage).
collectedparts 4y ago
It doesn't seem to include any backoff, so any browser tab left open on that screen will keep tightlooping on it. Almost certainly exacerbating the problem. What should my mental model be for "where" the code that causes those repetitive API requests is coming from? JS logic deployed to a CDN somewhere? If so, seems it may be an interesting question of whether or not it's possible to ship a hotfix (add exponential backoff) to JS asset in time to be helpful in fighting an outage like this.
- collectedparts 4y ago
  (self-reply) looks the API call is coming from a script in "main.ed70037a.js" which is loaded from: https://abs.twimg.com/responsive-web/client-web/main.ed70037a.js https://abs.twimg.com/responsive-web/client-web/main.ed70037... From nslookup, abs.twimg.com has canonical name twimg.twitter.map.fastly.net. Honestly pretty shocked that something at their scale could be depending on Fastly for core assets.
  - cowsandmilk 4y ago
    > Honestly pretty shocked that something at their scale could be depending on Fastly for core assets. Why would that be surprising? Fastly has many customers of similar scale. Amazon.com has fastly as one of the options to serve as their CDN (as was publicized when a fastly outage took down amazon briefly last year).

Herbstluft 4y ago

No, seems broken.

bribri 4y ago

nope

stu2010 4y ago

I was shown an error page with an option to refresh or log out, and refreshing just got the same error. Now login seems to be down.

ezoe 4y ago

So it has come to this. https://xkcd.com/1022/ https://xkcd.com/1022/

ezoe 4y ago
It seems to be backed to normal to me.

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aussiesnack 4y ago

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theCrowing 4y ago
Which sane adult person writes like that?
- aussiesnack 4y ago
  Where is this 'sanity' claim?
  - theCrowing 4y ago
    My bad I hope you find the help you need.
    - aussiesnack 4y ago
      Really? Or is it that you think of a reference to poor mental health as a legitimate insult?
      - theCrowing 4y ago
        Yes, really. <3
d_e_solomon 4y ago
You seem extremely angry about a Twitter outage. Have you considered going outside and getting some fresh air?
- aussiesnack 4y ago
  More bitterly amused at how awful all social media platforms are than angry. I don't have a Twitter account and don't care about it at all. Though I do have a Mastodon account and am struck by how much it recapitulates most of Twitter's socially damaging affordances.

rk06 4y ago

No, I can't. I am on Android using web version.

runarberg 4y ago

Not me. Was automatically logged out of the web app, and am unable to log back in because error.

app4soft 4y ago

Yes, I had the same issue. Just right now logged in, and Twitter proposes next pop-up:[img] Boost your account security Protect your account with two-factor authentication. Once enrolled, you won’t be prompted to confirm your identity again. Learn more about #https://help.twitter.com/managing-your-account/two-factor-authentication. On this floating pop-up URL to help docs inserted with prefaced `#`, turning link into tweet search query:[0] Its weird. UPDATE: Twitter again logged me out and continuously flickering with "Error" popup: Error Something went wrong, but don’t fret — it’s not your fault. Let’s try again. UPDATE2: Now (0223 UTC), one minute after previous update, after refresh Twitter works again and keeps me logged in. UPDATE3: Twitter just logged me out again (0255 UTC). Since previous update I was able to tweet about issue with URL on "Boost your account security" pop-up.[1,2] UPDATE4: Twitter still flickering (0310 UTC) logging me in and out, but I was able to reply to ex-CEO on their "Works for me" claim with pop-up issue screen.[3] [img] https://i.imgur.com/rDwyTUe.png https://i.imgur.com/rDwyTUe.png [0] https://twitter.com/search?q=%23https%3A%2F%2Fhelp.twitter.com%2Fmanaging-your-account%2Ftwo-factor-authentication&src=hashtag_click https://twitter.com/search?q=%23https%3A%2F%2Fhelp.twitter.c... [1] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1608292548669227008 https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1608292548669227008 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34168885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34168885 [3] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1608298407814172679 https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1608298407814172679

gomijacogeo 4y ago

It was broken, then it worked, then it was broken, and now it works again. Also, remember, if you got logged out, you've been bumped out of 'latest' mode if you were using it.

cheri9 4y ago

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