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Twitter Outage

37 points by halotrope 3y ago

Tweets and TL not loading at the moment.

r721 3y ago
Yes, a spike of reports is visible on downdetector: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ UPD I'm observing an interesting bug at the moment - "Following" timeline shows a random subset of recent tweets, different one on each reload.
kubectl_h 3y ago
Yeah I'm seeing issues loading tweets too.
leesalminen 3y ago
Came here for this.
JC770 3y ago
Now that Twitter has become Elon Musk's toy, is it still worth going?
- markstos 3y ago
  Lots of folks including myself are finding Mastodon a viable, decentralized alternative.
  - WaffleIronMaker 3y ago
    Yeah! So many cool people are on Mastodon! It was initially weird, not having any algorithm to feed me content, but after finding people you want to follow, it's a great platform! I just saw a post about how "Mastodon is for what you love, not what you hate", and I think that's the reason it feels so refreshing to me, instead of Twitter.
    - nebula8804 3y ago
      Just like any other open source project, they always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Its cool that techies have adopted Mastodon but normies have moved on or could never figure out the weird(to them) way in how it works. Shannon Morse had something to say about this phenomenon a while back. She noticed that her stress levels went down after all the techies left and she did not join them(because there is no promotion she could really do on a niche platform and she is in the business of promotion). I 100% concur with her. Those people that complain about everything, living in a tech bubble and just generally raise your unhappiness level, they are all on Mastodon now. So "Task Failed Successfully" I guess?
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
  It's a nice case study of mismanagement. And social dynamics.
- tekla 3y ago
  Twitter is still fun. So yes
- sixothree 3y ago
  I find it a more hostile place to be in general. Belligerent republicans seem emboldened to add politics in a hostile manner to literally every topic. No. Thank. You.
  - nebula8804 3y ago
    Agreed. There is still gold there but now you have to dig through a mound of excrement to get to it. The less time I spend there the better. I just quick link to my favorite people, read their updates and then get off. I'm missing out on a lot of additional good stuff but I am tired of digging through cruft to see it.
    - sixothree 3y ago
      And that's the worst part about it. Twitter required an investment to make it a great place to be. And I had spent time curating who I was following and such to the point where Twitter was a good place for me to be. I spend a lot of time collecting vintage computers and am interested in programming and technology in general. And I was really enjoying the time I spent there maybe an hour or three per week. But I rarely ever log in any more. The stupid belligerent idiots have really taken over the place. Though I guess that can describe more than just twitter any more.
      - nebula8804 3y ago
        Ha! Are you me? Because I also collect and restore vintage computers (almost to the point of hoarding). As i'm typing this, my NABU computer just arrived today ha ha. >But I rarely ever log in any more. The stupid belligerent idiots have really taken over the place. Though I guess that can describe more than just twitter any more. Too true. I wonder what the end state will end up being, both on Twitter and in society in general. Where do you think we are going? I have this nagging feeling that in some ways they are not as large of a group as they want people to think. I saw the results of the midterms and how the worst of the worst just got utterly destroyed at the polls and it made me think that the greater society is rational and is looking for solution to real life problems and not this nonsense we see in life and on Twitter. I guess 2024's US election will be a real test.
- stcroixx 3y ago
  Do you enjoy mixing with people with views opposed to yours or does that upset you?
  - Pxtl 3y ago
    If it were reasonable discussions, then yes. But when it's bluechecks who call everybody who disagrees with them a pedophile, less so.
  - martin8412 3y ago
    I generally find it a waste of time since it has nothing to do with difference of opinion. It's the anti-woke/culture war mob who makes up opinions that you supposedly have and then expects you to waste your time refuting an opinion you never had. You'd get more intelligent debate with a monkey at the zoo and probably considerably less shit flung in your face.
  - add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
    In principle yes, in practice on a platform dedicated to culture war bait no.
  - JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
    Social media should not be exclusively about views, it should be about finding people with common interests to improve your skills and knowledge in that topic and perhaps one day do stuff in the real world with the circle of people who have your same common interest. Twitter has always been a boxing ring more than a townsquare, and even more since Musk acquisition. If that is the state of affairs I'd rather step in a real ring, win or lose you'll feel something more intense than winning/losing an argument on Twitter.
  - Timon3 3y ago
    You're deliberately leaving out the part where the views have to also be allowed by Elon. Free speech and all, except for if you write "cisgender".
- treeman79 3y ago
  Drastically better than before. All sorts of view points, far less bots just spamming each other. People trying to sell illegal images are drastically reduced or gone. Before it was just an echo chamber of far left talking points. Now all sides can say what they want. Highly recommend @catturd2 for good example of speech that used to be banned. Of course those who love Orwellian systems are free to hate the changes.
  - Pxtl 3y ago
    Okay, you've insulted everybody you've disagreed with as "Orwellian", claimed the bots are gone which is hilariously false, and claimed that Musk cleared out the CSAM which no he has not: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/06/06/twitter-failing-to-deal-with-child-sexual-abuse-material-says-stanford-internet-observatory/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/06/06/twitt... Your media diet is extremely unhealthy.
- 0x3E7 3y ago
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thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
s/Twitter Outage/Twitter Outrage/g ?
- belthesar 3y ago
  Oh, so it wasn't just me. Good to know.
ChrisArchitect 3y ago
Tell HN:
andrei_says_ 3y ago
Are Twitter outages still newsworthy? Almost every day I am unable to load tweet images, unable to load threads, unable to load a person’s tweets. For a few days now I haven’t been able to refresh the main timeline. All in the official app. I’ve accepted this as the new normal for someone like me who will never pay for a subscription to just read a few tweets. The quick enshittification of Twitter curbs my social media use so I guess that’s one good outcome.
- legrande 3y ago
  I routinely get outages. Then I go to HN to see if anyone has the same problem, but there's nothing. I imagine people have experienced 'outage fatigue' with Twitter. It's the new normal now.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
  They're less newsworthy because they're more frequent. But they're more newsworthy because everyone knows Musk is freaking out every time it happens. Breads and circuses, man.
- rvz 3y ago
  Well the speed bumps are more magnified these days to craft a narrative of 'broken Twitter' in the news. Instagram allegedly had an 'outage' [0] but of course it is ignored as it doesn't fit the current narrative; thus is not magnified. GitHub for example, goes down more times than both Twitter and Instagram, every month and somehow that is acceptable and not a sign of GitHub slowly falling apart. I bet that as soon as GitHub goes down, we will see the same old complaints about it on HN and when it comes back up, it will be accepted and forgotten about. Rinse and repeat. [0] https://downdetector.com/status/instagram https://downdetector.com/status/instagram

Twitter Outage

37 points by halotrope 3y ago

Tweets and TL not loading at the moment.

r721 3y ago

Yes, a spike of reports is visible on downdetector: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ UPD I'm observing an interesting bug at the moment - "Following" timeline shows a random subset of recent tweets, different one on each reload.

kubectl_h 3y ago

Yeah I'm seeing issues loading tweets too.

leesalminen 3y ago

Came here for this.

JC770 3y ago

Now that Twitter has become Elon Musk's toy, is it still worth going?

markstos 3y ago
Lots of folks including myself are finding Mastodon a viable, decentralized alternative.
- WaffleIronMaker 3y ago
  Yeah! So many cool people are on Mastodon! It was initially weird, not having any algorithm to feed me content, but after finding people you want to follow, it's a great platform! I just saw a post about how "Mastodon is for what you love, not what you hate", and I think that's the reason it feels so refreshing to me, instead of Twitter.
  - nebula8804 3y ago
    Just like any other open source project, they always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Its cool that techies have adopted Mastodon but normies have moved on or could never figure out the weird(to them) way in how it works. Shannon Morse had something to say about this phenomenon a while back. She noticed that her stress levels went down after all the techies left and she did not join them(because there is no promotion she could really do on a niche platform and she is in the business of promotion). I 100% concur with her. Those people that complain about everything, living in a tech bubble and just generally raise your unhappiness level, they are all on Mastodon now. So "Task Failed Successfully" I guess?
3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
It's a nice case study of mismanagement. And social dynamics.
tekla 3y ago
Twitter is still fun. So yes
sixothree 3y ago
I find it a more hostile place to be in general. Belligerent republicans seem emboldened to add politics in a hostile manner to literally every topic. No. Thank. You.
- nebula8804 3y ago
  Agreed. There is still gold there but now you have to dig through a mound of excrement to get to it. The less time I spend there the better. I just quick link to my favorite people, read their updates and then get off. I'm missing out on a lot of additional good stuff but I am tired of digging through cruft to see it.
  - sixothree 3y ago
    And that's the worst part about it. Twitter required an investment to make it a great place to be. And I had spent time curating who I was following and such to the point where Twitter was a good place for me to be. I spend a lot of time collecting vintage computers and am interested in programming and technology in general. And I was really enjoying the time I spent there maybe an hour or three per week. But I rarely ever log in any more. The stupid belligerent idiots have really taken over the place. Though I guess that can describe more than just twitter any more.
    - nebula8804 3y ago
      Ha! Are you me? Because I also collect and restore vintage computers (almost to the point of hoarding). As i'm typing this, my NABU computer just arrived today ha ha. >But I rarely ever log in any more. The stupid belligerent idiots have really taken over the place. Though I guess that can describe more than just twitter any more. Too true. I wonder what the end state will end up being, both on Twitter and in society in general. Where do you think we are going? I have this nagging feeling that in some ways they are not as large of a group as they want people to think. I saw the results of the midterms and how the worst of the worst just got utterly destroyed at the polls and it made me think that the greater society is rational and is looking for solution to real life problems and not this nonsense we see in life and on Twitter. I guess 2024's US election will be a real test.
stcroixx 3y ago
Do you enjoy mixing with people with views opposed to yours or does that upset you?
- Pxtl 3y ago
  If it were reasonable discussions, then yes. But when it's bluechecks who call everybody who disagrees with them a pedophile, less so.
- martin8412 3y ago
  I generally find it a waste of time since it has nothing to do with difference of opinion. It's the anti-woke/culture war mob who makes up opinions that you supposedly have and then expects you to waste your time refuting an opinion you never had. You'd get more intelligent debate with a monkey at the zoo and probably considerably less shit flung in your face.
- add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
  In principle yes, in practice on a platform dedicated to culture war bait no.
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
  Social media should not be exclusively about views, it should be about finding people with common interests to improve your skills and knowledge in that topic and perhaps one day do stuff in the real world with the circle of people who have your same common interest. Twitter has always been a boxing ring more than a townsquare, and even more since Musk acquisition. If that is the state of affairs I'd rather step in a real ring, win or lose you'll feel something more intense than winning/losing an argument on Twitter.
- Timon3 3y ago
  You're deliberately leaving out the part where the views have to also be allowed by Elon. Free speech and all, except for if you write "cisgender".
treeman79 3y ago
Drastically better than before. All sorts of view points, far less bots just spamming each other. People trying to sell illegal images are drastically reduced or gone. Before it was just an echo chamber of far left talking points. Now all sides can say what they want. Highly recommend @catturd2 for good example of speech that used to be banned. Of course those who love Orwellian systems are free to hate the changes.
- Pxtl 3y ago
  Okay, you've insulted everybody you've disagreed with as "Orwellian", claimed the bots are gone which is hilariously false, and claimed that Musk cleared out the CSAM which no he has not: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/06/06/twitter-failing-to-deal-with-child-sexual-abuse-material-says-stanford-internet-observatory/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/06/06/twitt... Your media diet is extremely unhealthy.
0x3E7 3y ago
[flagged]

thesuperbigfrog 3y ago

s/Twitter Outage/Twitter Outrage/g ?

belthesar 3y ago
Oh, so it wasn't just me. Good to know.

ChrisArchitect 3y ago

Tell HN:

andrei_says_ 3y ago

Are Twitter outages still newsworthy? Almost every day I am unable to load tweet images, unable to load threads, unable to load a person’s tweets. For a few days now I haven’t been able to refresh the main timeline. All in the official app. I’ve accepted this as the new normal for someone like me who will never pay for a subscription to just read a few tweets. The quick enshittification of Twitter curbs my social media use so I guess that’s one good outcome.

legrande 3y ago
I routinely get outages. Then I go to HN to see if anyone has the same problem, but there's nothing. I imagine people have experienced 'outage fatigue' with Twitter. It's the new normal now.
3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
They're less newsworthy because they're more frequent. But they're more newsworthy because everyone knows Musk is freaking out every time it happens. Breads and circuses, man.
rvz 3y ago
Well the speed bumps are more magnified these days to craft a narrative of 'broken Twitter' in the news. Instagram allegedly had an 'outage' [0] but of course it is ignored as it doesn't fit the current narrative; thus is not magnified. GitHub for example, goes down more times than both Twitter and Instagram, every month and somehow that is acceptable and not a sign of GitHub slowly falling apart. I bet that as soon as GitHub goes down, we will see the same old complaints about it on HN and when it comes back up, it will be accepted and forgotten about. Rinse and repeat. [0] https://downdetector.com/status/instagram https://downdetector.com/status/instagram