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Serious Twitter, LiveJournal Outage Ongoing
- scientifics 17y agoWill Twitter go out again after service is restored from everyone complaining about the downtime?
- jacquesm 17y agoTwitter traffic levels as a sawtooth function generator. Hm. Wonder what kind of news it would take to produce a sine-wave ?
- pclark 17y agoits going to be a productive afternoon without twitter.
- rufo 17y agoNot if I keep checking it every two minutes to see if it's back up. (I don't have a problem - I can quit any time I want!)
- Stasyan 17y agoIt's very easy to quit, I already quit hundreds of times before
- kevindication 17y agoRemember: winners never quit, but quitters never lose.
- joubert 17y agonot for me; instead I'll be reading more on HN.
- figital 17y agoidenti.ca is up
- figital 17y agohttp://identi.ca/figital http://identi.ca/figital
- figital 17y agoSorry that was spam (although joke spam). I've been clicking around on identi.ca for 10 minutes ... the navigation is really clunky ... I'd think delicious could handle the traffic and keep users if twitter went down (it's almost the same thing but with more features).
- nir 17y agoIs there a statistic on how many people use identi.ca? I wonder if it's reliability is due to better design or simply having less users.
- diego 17y agoCheck out alexa, compete, etc. identi.ca would have to be horribly designed in order to run into scalability issues at the current traffic level. Twitter's traffic is two to three orders of magnitude greater.
- mtw 17y ago70.000 users on just identi.ca, without counting others using laconi.ca
- dryicerx 17y agoSoon it will be down because of all the twitter whining inside identi.ca
- pclark 17y agono one uses that
- mbenjaminsmith 17y agoMy site's down since about 5 minutes ago. It's on App Engine... Maybe this is more widespread than Twitter? Global cyberattack?
- ratsbane 17y agoTwo people have called me in the last few minutes to ask if I'm having internet problems - on in Nashville on AT&T and the other in Memphis - not sure what carrier. My Comcast connection just went down for about five minutes while I was typing that... but my open ssh connections, one to a server in Nashville, one to one in Fremont at Hurricane Electric, and one to Rackspace in Dallas - still worked.
- krschultz 17y agohttp://istwitterdown.com/ http://istwitterdown.com/
- utku_karatas2 17y agoFail. Says "No".
- krschultz 17y ago/me smacks hand into forehead. That is because Twitter is back - at least for some people. Before it was total blackout so it said Yes. This comment is from about 10am this morning
- idlewords 17y agoApparently Facebook is seeing intermittent errors as well, down for a bunch of people. Do these people all share a datacenter?
- shakhan 17y agoYup, I keep getting "Transport error (#1001) while retrieving data from endpoint" intermittently.
- timdorr 17y agoWell, I've been getting that error forever (possibly years now). Facebook's always been 98% for me. Just slightly off 100%.
- ja27 17y agoFacebook chat showing connection errors and other peoples' photos are appearing in my mobile album. Of course, it could just be load from all the displaced twitter users. Friendfeed is up :).
- noodle 17y agoyou know, this would be a pretty sneaky way to measure the reach of twitter -- go down for an hour or so in the morning and take a look at the media response metrics.
- jrockway 17y agoTechCrunch will complain about anything and everything, regardless of its actual importance. For example, Arrington's house doesn't have electricity this morning. Who cares? Nobody. And yet it is a critical part of this "story".
- noodle 17y agofair, but i was referring to more mainstream sources. i'm not trying to imply that this is what is happening, but i do think it could be an interesting metric to compare -- how much noise you get from downtime 6 months ago to the noise of today.
- nick-dap 17y ago"these outages are much more serious. 45 million people worldwide now rely on Twitter as a communication platform" Riiiight. Rely is a very strong word. How will we do business?! How will we talk to our friends and relatives?! Let's face it, Twitter solved a problem that never existed.
- mixmax 17y agoThat's how new markets are born. Back in the day e-mail solved a problem that didn't exist too.
- nick-dap 17y agoThere was no way to transfer a document instantly and without using paper. Faxes were slow and used paper. There was a clear business need. So I don't think thats a fair comparison. Then again I don't remember those days from personal experiences, just making an assumption. From a different perspective. If it was serving a need people would be willing to pay for it.
- Elepsis 17y agoWhen email was first becoming popular, most people didn't know they wanted to transfer a document without using paper. And in fact when they GOT a document in an email, much of the time they wound up printing it out. But even then your basic argument is flawed, because it assumes that the point of email is attachments. The original technology email replaced was not the fax machine but the letter. Likewise, Twitter is arguably partly a replacement for SMS.
- nick-dap 17y agoThanks for the insight on email. I stand corrected. However I still think that you can't compare Twitter to email. By now Twitter is widely accepted. And I still don't see how we would _rely_ on it for communication. Its a micro-blogging service, might as well call it "follow my random thoughts and I'll follow yours", which obviously works for a lot of people. We should start treating it as a enterntainment tool and not as a fabric of modern society without which news would not propagate throughout this world. There is waaaay too much hype around Twitter. The day I saw CNN read random twitter feed is the day I died a little inside.
- roc 17y agofederated protocol.
- poutine 17y agoThat is indeed the solution. If a Twitter type service is to become a real communications platform it must be federated (decentralized) and immune to DOS attacks, government intervention, etc.
- mtw 17y agothat's the idea behind identi.ca
- poutine 17y agoI was thinking XMPP/Google Wave. Identi.ca will never win over the Twitter audience, something different may.
- mtw 17y agoI thought the point of hacker news was to give an opportunity to small teams and startups, not just because it comes from google
- poutine 17y agoI'm not giving any opportunity to anyone. The market will do what it does. As a technology solution, XMPP is far better than a polling based Twitter/Identi.ca client.
- poutine 17y agoI'm not giving any opportunity to anyone. The market will do what it does. As a technology solution, XMPP is far better than a polling based Twitter/Identi.ca client.
- omouse 17y agoLike http://identi.ca/ http://identi.ca/ ?
- jgrahamc 17y agoTwitter says that they are dealing with a DDoS attack. See http://status.twitter.com/ http://status.twitter.com/
- larrywright 17y agoIt looks like it's actually Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/06/serious-twitter-outage-ongoing/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/06/serious-twitter-outage-... Somebody doesn't like social networks it seems :/
- jrockway 17y agoCorporate America is just trying to get some productivity back. Hard economic times, dontchaknow.
- anigbrowl 17y agoLulz™
- hyperbovine 17y agoIf you're reading this they failed.
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- figital 17y agosummize has been working all along ... you can see some tweets occasionally going through during the attack.
- thamer 17y agoThe streaming API¹ worked for a bit, but just went down too. For a while it showed that a few tweets were still going through. [1] http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation
- cstefanovici 17y agoCan anyone comment on whether the issues with Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal are related? Nobody seems to be saying it, but it doesn't seem to be a coincidence? I know Twitter has had downtime before but this is of long duration, early in the morning and coinciding with issues with the other sites. Is this an anti-socialnetworking hacker attack???
- gchucky 17y agoThey're probably not. Twitter is a DDoS according to its status page; whereas http://status.livejournal.org/ http://status.livejournal.org/ says that their problems were "due to some database problems." No idea about Facebook.
- scientifics 17y agoTwitter is back for me at 11:07 EST
- davidw 17y agohttp://status.twitter.com/ http://status.twitter.com/ says it's back up too, although they are continuing to defend against the DoS attack.
- scientifics 17y agoAppears to be down again at 11:35 EST
- wmblaettler 17y agoI am not sure if it's related, but I had connection errors with Facebook chat last night around 11pm EST, it was my first time using this feature, so I wrote it off as buggy, and moved the conversation to another chat platform.
- jonursenbach 17y agoBut whoever will they sue for the loss of revenue?
- vijayr 17y agoif social networks are up { spend time there } else { keep checking if they are up, every two minutes. worry and talk about why they are down }
- UpFromTheGut 17y agoI started reading as if it were pseudo-code, but then realized it was English with a few extra curly braces.
- tdonia 17y agois there anything big/interesting enough going on today that someone would have a motivation to take out twitter's platform to obfuscate?
- ch101 17y agoMy twitter is down. I was going to ask all of you to add me to keep me updated, but I suppose that won't work. Add me later then http://twitter.com/colleenannhayes http://twitter.com/colleenannhayes
- ch101 17y agoWhy am I down-modded for this it was neutral?