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Is Twitter/X Down
- evbogue 3y agoMaybe someone backed it up?
- cyrux004 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326
- slimebot80 3y agoIt's not down, it's having a software update.
- donalhunt 3y agoThe "Apple" approach? At least with apple it usually means new stuff is coming…
- mschuster91 3y agoYeah, down in Germany and Croatia as well. Looks like their API has some serious issues.
- ulfw 3y agoNot just their API
- bitwize 3y agoIt's demanding I sign in, so I guess that means it's up?
- cpncrunch 3y agoNo. Try logging in and youll see its empty.
- mmastrac 3y agoIn the early days of Twitter at least we'd get the fail whale. I would love to go back to the early energy of Twitter but not like this...
- minimaxir 3y agoI'd hate to see what Elon would choose as a fail whale equivalent.
- r00fus 3y agoThere was that image of Elon before he started using Ozempic
- slimebot80 3y agoI don't know, ketamine can also make you bloated, evidently.
- clipsy 3y agoWas ketamine also causing the male pattern baldness he had before his hair implants?
- jonathankoren 3y agoAlas, it is a photo of a dog. Or at least it was on its last outage a few months ago.
- superkuh 3y agoJust like Amazon.
- irrational 3y agoWhale Tail
- none_to_remain 3y ago
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- 3327 3y ago[dead]
- kernelsoe 3y agoCurrently no posts are loaded on my computer/phone. Only skeleton + suggestions.
- _kush 3y agoIt’s not loading any tweets on desktop and mobile
- insanitybit 3y agoYes, it's acting like I'm a completely new user. All of my tweets are gone, although 'reactions' are still there. A major outage at 10PM PST is not fun :\ sorry Twitter ops.
- slimebot80 3y agoNeither is the time of year. The few remaining staff will be recovering from Xmas parties just before the long Christmas weekend if not already on holidays.
- defrost 3y agoI heard the remaining staff were all entirely 110% hard core though ... /s aside, you're correct, it's an awful time of the year to be last engineer standing watch over a major traffic site falling down.
- riffic 3y agoI thought I got banned.
- riffic 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_networking_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network... soon.
- kernal 3y agoYou can add Threads right now under the category of dead.
- justinzollars 3y agoThe three (very very bitter) Threads users are downvoting you.
- justinzollars 3y agoWhen I was a kid (Nat Nanny)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Nanny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Nanny] was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up to adore content moderation. A strange authoritarian impulse.
- riffic 3y agoI don't think it's that. if you had said something about how the moneyed interests make the rules you would then be on to something substantive though.
- justinzollars 3y agoThe moneyed interests are boycotting X and deploying their EU and American regulators to tangle the platform up in regulation enforcements.
- riffic 3y agonow you're getting somewhere. Pre-acquisition the unwritten rule on Twitter was you could always do (and could never do) anything that aligned with the board and the equity holders. The rules that existed were theirs.
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoWell it's partially up, meaning you can see 'the site' but my posts, replies, and evidently at least some other people's posts and replies are completely missing. Even people who have paid for the service evidently. This kind of thing in a hypermedia application sure is problematic, because for example I have made lots of articles out on other services with embeds of tweets in those articles when I guess it would be more trustworthy to take screenshots. Huh, maybe some essential people to keep this kind of thing from happening were recently let go. This is a bigger screw up than that time my X account got suspended! https://medium.com/luminasticity/x-suspension-news-44664b6b2b04 https://medium.com/luminasticity/x-suspension-news-44664b6b2... I suppose there will be a lot of people making backups of their content now. If there was someone clever in control there they would add a feature that it would only give you the backup since your last backup (with notice of course) and you would have to actually request a FULL backup that would probably save the servers a lot of work in the coming weeks. But there seems to be an ongoing narrative that there isn't someone clever in control there.
- lopkeny12ko 3y agoWhat exactly are we suposed to be looking at? This just links to a random person's profile called "Geneia@home"?
- trindenise 3y agoYes...all my timelines are gone. Cannot see anyone else timeliness. Treating me like a new user with a welcome message to set up my account. Also, the text as well as the like button, RT has shrunk and is very tiny. Only thing working is "Spaces"
- nicetryguy 3y agosame behavior
- trilbyglens 3y agoBecause no one is using them probably :D
- haneefmubarak 3y ago(slightly) earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326
- gigglesupstairs 3y ago@dang please merge the threads.
- aufhebung 3y agoeverything except spaces is out for me
- vzaliva 3y agoIt might seem obvious, but I'd like to highlight that this illustrates another benefit of a distributed system like Mastodon. Even if one of the Mastodon servers goes down, the others will continue to function.
- liquidgecka 3y agoAhh yes.. replace the SPOF with a distributed SPOF /s :-)
- Racing0461 3y agoThe value in twitter/youtube/IG/twitch etc is in the current social network/users, not the tech. That's why its insanely hard to create new social networks.
- AlienRobot 3y agoBut if your instance is down how do you post?
- WediBlino 3y agoAll I did was tweet ";drop table tweets;"
- yread 3y agoThat's what they get for using plural in table names
- Brajeshwar 3y agoIt used to be a celebration of how popular Twitter was becoming when one sees the Fail Whale - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Outages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Outages
- justinzollars 3y agoYeah, they need to bring the fail whale back!
- jerojero 3y agoSeems to be going for a while. I wonder if we'll get some kind of clarification on what happened. Those posts are always fun to read as you get to see what goes wrong on big software with millions of users! It should be back working soon, i hope. Hopefully no data is lost.
- rsynnott 3y agoI mean, you’ll get an Elon tweet along the lines of “Servers are woke”, and you’ll like it. I don’t think Musk companies have the sort of culture that produces detailed RCAs.
- hubraumhugo 3y agoImagine working for Twitter ops and getting a phone call from angry Elon at your Xmas party, with a festive hat on, enjoying your beer, and then having to tell everybody you have to leave for the office now at 11 pm. Any such real-world stories?
- Aitizazk 3y agoSucks for the oncall engineers
- Hamuko 3y agoIs anyone tracking the number of downtimes / partial outages (like all outgoing links getting broken) ever since Elon decided to fire most of the staff? Very curious to see if there's actually been a noticeable uptick.
- Pat_Murph 3y agoWith any luck it's permanent
- u320 3y agoThe timing couldn't be worse. Threads just launched in EU so the site has seen a big boost in activity.
- radium3d 3y agoThreads kinda sucks, it just shows you what their algorithm wants to show you, no ability to search for posts is pretty lame.
- Hamuko 3y agoAre people in the EU actually even trying it? I might've been interested in trying it when it launched in the US/UK/Japan when everyone was making their "I'm now on Threads" posts, but now it seems pretty self-evident no one was actually moving there.
- bernardlunn 3y agoI deleted X to break this habit and cos it is becoming an Elon Musk vanity project so don’t care if it’s down
- jeffhuys 3y agoI care so little that I make a comment about it, showing how little I care.
- BrokenGizmo 3y agoRemember Digg v4?
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- knewter 3y agoRedis is down oops.
- radium3d 3y agoThe most interesting thing is that Elon is completely silenced when X/Twitter is down. He has no other social media accounts to communicate through. Anyone got his number?
- u320 3y agoIt looks to be working again, at least for me.
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- ForFreedom 3y agoIts working now
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoit's up again.
- Log_out_ 3y ago? Shows the Xitter login screen and is the landing page? I thought up down monitoring should be hosted by different services?
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- ChrisArchitect 3y agoAsk HN:
- malephex 3y agoElon probably didn't pay the compute bill.