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Twitter's own internal url shortener ran out of API credits

68 points by ugjka 4y ago

mulcahey 4y ago
Can't load twitter.com on desktop
groot2581 4y ago
Twitter itself is entirely down for me, > Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information This is just going to https://twitter.com/ https://twitter.com/
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  “We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences.” (Covers...so much of what has happened at Twitter since Musk took over.) https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1632792942262747136?t=chncta-xNXIsG42pKSoc1g&s=19 https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/163279294226274713...
  - kevviiinn 4y ago
    "The person in charge doesn't understand how things work and ham fistedly cuts out services"
brundolf 4y ago
The exact way it failed makes it so much funnier
- ttctciyf 4y ago
  Is this what they call "technical debt"?
  - antibasilisk 4y ago
    I think this is more like technical bankruptcy
    - Timon3 4y ago
      That horrible moment when you come home from a four week vacation and, just as the smell hits, suddenly remember you were dogfooding...
infamouscow 4y ago
It's funny how quickly #HugOps was wiped from the collective memory after the Twitter purchase. It's like engineers are demonstrably more immature and childish than the petulant children they seek to deride.
- deleted 4y ago
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- wmf 4y ago
  I haven't seen anyone blaming the engineers. Everyone knows they're completely overstretched.
  - infamouscow 4y ago
    HugOps is a way to show empathy and appreciation for the real people who are involved in building, shipping, and running software. The other comments in this thread are doing nothing of the sort.
    - ecf 4y ago
      > The other comments in this thread are doing nothing if the sort. > It's like engineers are demonstrably more immature and childish than the petulant children they seek to deride.
    - tonfreed 4y ago
      It sounds like a suit driven buzzword for not being a piece of trash at work
new2yc 4y ago
This is way too hilarious
tonfreed 4y ago
It's interesting to me that this has only started happening now. Makes me wonder what kind of mess was happening behind the scenes and how it was being papered over before Musk took over. This doesn't just happen overnight. We've all been there, we rush out a temporary fix that turns into a permanent fixture. I suspect with the cost cutting measures it's all caught up with the team now.
- pornel 4y ago
  All the people who knew how to properly operate the infrastructure have been fired. The API has been recently cut down, hastily, by a skeleton crew that most likely had no idea how these things were supposed to be set up. No doubt big long-term projects have tech debt, but this case seems like a common configuration error.

68 points by ugjka 4y ago

Can't load twitter.com on desktop

Twitter itself is entirely down for me, > Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information This is just going to https://twitter.com/ https://twitter.com/

dragonwriter 4y ago
“We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences.” (Covers...so much of what has happened at Twitter since Musk took over.) https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1632792942262747136?t=chncta-xNXIsG42pKSoc1g&s=19 https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/163279294226274713...
- kevviiinn 4y ago
  "The person in charge doesn't understand how things work and ham fistedly cuts out services"

brundolf 4y ago

The exact way it failed makes it so much funnier

ttctciyf 4y ago
Is this what they call "technical debt"?
- antibasilisk 4y ago
  I think this is more like technical bankruptcy
  - Timon3 4y ago
    That horrible moment when you come home from a four week vacation and, just as the smell hits, suddenly remember you were dogfooding...

infamouscow 4y ago

It's funny how quickly #HugOps was wiped from the collective memory after the Twitter purchase. It's like engineers are demonstrably more immature and childish than the petulant children they seek to deride.

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wmf 4y ago
I haven't seen anyone blaming the engineers. Everyone knows they're completely overstretched.
- infamouscow 4y ago
  HugOps is a way to show empathy and appreciation for the real people who are involved in building, shipping, and running software. The other comments in this thread are doing nothing of the sort.
  - ecf 4y ago
    > The other comments in this thread are doing nothing if the sort. > It's like engineers are demonstrably more immature and childish than the petulant children they seek to deride.
  - tonfreed 4y ago
    It sounds like a suit driven buzzword for not being a piece of trash at work

new2yc 4y ago

This is way too hilarious

tonfreed 4y ago

It's interesting to me that this has only started happening now. Makes me wonder what kind of mess was happening behind the scenes and how it was being papered over before Musk took over. This doesn't just happen overnight. We've all been there, we rush out a temporary fix that turns into a permanent fixture. I suspect with the cost cutting measures it's all caught up with the team now.

pornel 4y ago
All the people who knew how to properly operate the infrastructure have been fired. The API has been recently cut down, hastily, by a skeleton crew that most likely had no idea how these things were supposed to be set up. No doubt big long-term projects have tech debt, but this case seems like a common configuration error.