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Twitter doesn't owe me anything. They don't owe me uptime, they don't owe me an explanation of downtime, and they don't owe me apologies. Obviously, the site i

• adgar 14y ago
  Exactly. The lowest bar we can possibly set is the only one that matters.
• makmanalp 14y ago
  Populist counter-viewpoint: Twitter is literally nothing without the users. No content, no revenue, no value. They owe their users everything. edit: I deserved that. :)
  • iNate2000 14y ago
    Figuratively nothing ;)
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• slurgfest 14y ago
  Why can't Twitter say it in straight-forward language: "The site is down. We're working on it." That would be so refreshing.
  • ChuckMcM 14y ago
    Perhaps it might not be true? I suppose if you were reading the error then by definition it was down but places like Amazon's EC2 have to be careful about saying "EC2 is down for 10% of the customers in the east cost availability zone #2" or some such. There are many moving pieces, hence the rise of sites like downforme.org
    • namenotrequired 14y ago
      Thanks for mentioning that. I had been using isup.me but ran in issues when checking while some images failed to load on a site I volunteer for - it would check the responsiveness on the URL of the server itself, which gave a 404 as it wasn't supposed to be accessed by public and isup.me would interpret that as the server always being down... downforme.org seems to deal with that better, thanks!