> Yet somehow GitHub's outages are tolerated This isn't exactly a hard concept to grasp though: it's entirely possible to use GitHub and still be productive wh

> Yet somehow GitHub's outages are tolerated This isn't exactly a hard concept to grasp though: it's entirely possible to use GitHub and still be productive when it's temporarily offline; Git doesn't stop working on your local machine because GitHub is down. It's literally impossible to use Twitter when it's temporarily offline. There is no "offline" mode for Twitter. There is also the argument to be made that (a) what GitHub does is orders of magnitude more complex than what Twitter does, and (b) I don't recall anyone buying a controlling stake in GitHub and then loudly declaring that it doesn't need all those staff and firing (IIRC) all but one of the Ops team.