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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 da
by 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 agoI 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 agoThey'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 agoWell 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