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I am guessing twitter fucked around and now are in the finding out phase. I bet some of their infra is crumbling under the stress of all bs Musk pulled.

by x86x87 3y ago

soneca 3y ago
I am 100% sure that I didn’t load 300 tweets in the official app today. I was only accessing an account where I follow 17 people. I just counted and there were 14 new tweets (RTs counted as 2 tweets) in my feed from today (the average for a typical day in this account). And I was rate-limited today. In the best scenario, the change is really intended, but they messed something with the implementation and Musk will never admit it. In the worst, their infra is crumbling and they are inventing excuses to save face.
- x86x87 3y ago
  Twitter crumbling is the best case scenario imho. This will show that you cannot run it with a skeleton crew and that the decisions made were either extremely naive or extremely dumb and filled with hubris
  - mattgreenrocks 3y ago
    And we get the nice side effect of Twitter being dead.
  - ssnistfajen 3y ago
    The deadly combo is running a skeleton crew while rapidly implementing new changes. This just presents an exponentially higher workload for the remaining staff who may not have the institutional knowledge required to successfully tackle those problems.
- ProjectArcturis 3y ago
  Guessing the app preloaded responses to the tweets you read?
  - soneca 3y ago
    That’s my guess. Or something on the “for you” tab
netsharc 3y ago
I read that they've resumed paying Google for their cloud infra... maybe Melon just paid for some low tier and he's yelling at his engineers and they're desperately trying to not hit the limits of those resources.
amatwl 3y ago
There was reporting that they were scrambling to move some infrastructure off Google since they were going to be cut off after refusing to pay their bills. The deadline was June 30, though there was additional reporting saying Linda Yaccarino restarted payments - https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-google-cloud-bills-invoices-linda-yaccarino-payments-2023-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-google-clo...
- x86x87 3y ago
  Hahaha. If this caused it and it's actually googlw cutting them off this is beyond hilarious.
timmytokyo 3y ago
This was all foreseen: “Things will be broken. Things will be broken more often. Things will be broken for longer periods of time. Things will be broken in more severe ways,” he says. “Everything will compound until, eventually, it’s not usable.” https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-ho...

I am guessing twitter fucked around and now are in the finding out phase. I bet some of their infra is crumbling under the stress of all bs Musk pulled.

by x86x87 3y ago

I am guessing twitter fucked around and now are in the finding out phase. I bet some of their infra is crumbling under the stress of all bs Musk pulled.

soneca 3y ago

I am 100% sure that I didn’t load 300 tweets in the official app today. I was only accessing an account where I follow 17 people. I just counted and there were 14 new tweets (RTs counted as 2 tweets) in my feed from today (the average for a typical day in this account). And I was rate-limited today. In the best scenario, the change is really intended, but they messed something with the implementation and Musk will never admit it. In the worst, their infra is crumbling and they are inventing excuses to save face.

x86x87 3y ago
Twitter crumbling is the best case scenario imho. This will show that you cannot run it with a skeleton crew and that the decisions made were either extremely naive or extremely dumb and filled with hubris
- mattgreenrocks 3y ago
  And we get the nice side effect of Twitter being dead.
- ssnistfajen 3y ago
  The deadly combo is running a skeleton crew while rapidly implementing new changes. This just presents an exponentially higher workload for the remaining staff who may not have the institutional knowledge required to successfully tackle those problems.
ProjectArcturis 3y ago
Guessing the app preloaded responses to the tweets you read?
- soneca 3y ago
  That’s my guess. Or something on the “for you” tab

netsharc 3y ago

I read that they've resumed paying Google for their cloud infra... maybe Melon just paid for some low tier and he's yelling at his engineers and they're desperately trying to not hit the limits of those resources.

amatwl 3y ago

There was reporting that they were scrambling to move some infrastructure off Google since they were going to be cut off after refusing to pay their bills. The deadline was June 30, though there was additional reporting saying Linda Yaccarino restarted payments - https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-google-cloud-bills-invoices-linda-yaccarino-payments-2023-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-google-clo...

x86x87 3y ago
Hahaha. If this caused it and it's actually googlw cutting them off this is beyond hilarious.

timmytokyo 3y ago

This was all foreseen: “Things will be broken. Things will be broken more often. Things will be broken for longer periods of time. Things will be broken in more severe ways,” he says. “Everything will compound until, eventually, it’s not usable.” https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-ho...