Is Twitter/X Down

It seems increasingly the norm not to acknowledge any failure, but to simply fail to operate without admitting anything is wrong. Institutionally as well as technologically.

kernelsoe• 3 years ago

Currently no posts are loaded on my computer/phone. Only skeleton + suggestions.

_kush• 3 years ago

It’s not loading any tweets on desktop and mobile

slimebot803• 3 years ago

It's not down, it's having a software update.

donalhunt• 3 years ago

The "Apple" approach? At least with apple it usually means new stuff is coming…

mschuster91• 3 years ago

Yeah, down in Germany and Croatia as well. Looks like their API has some serious issues.

ulfw• 3 years ago

Not just their API

insanitybit• 3 years ago

Yes, 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.

slimebot803• 3 years ago

Neither 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• 3 years ago

I 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.

riffic4• 3 years ago

I thought I got banned.

riffic4• 3 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...

soon.

kernal• 3 years ago

You can add Threads right now under the category of dead.

justinzollars4• 3 years ago

The three (very very bitter) Threads users are downvoting you.

justinzollars4• 3 years ago

When I was a kid (Nat 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.

riffic4• 3 years ago

I 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.

firekvz• 3 years ago

club penguin not on this list, RIP

gabeidx• 3 years ago

RIP Orkut

bryanrasmussen2• 3 years ago

Well 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-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• 3 years ago

What exactly are we suposed to be looking at? This just links to a random person's profile called "Geneia@home"?

trindenise• 3 years ago

Yes...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• 3 years ago

same behavior

trilbyglens• 3 years ago

Because no one is using them probably :D

haneefmubarak• 3 years ago

(slightly) earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326

gigglesupstairs• 3 years ago

@dang please merge the threads.

aufhebung• 3 years ago

everything except spaces is out for me

vzaliva• 3 years ago

It 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• 3 years ago

Ahh yes.. replace the SPOF with a distributed SPOF /s :-)

Racing0461• 3 years ago

The 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• 3 years ago

But if your instance is down how do you post?

WediBlino• 3 years ago

All I did was tweet ";drop table tweets;"

yread• 3 years ago

That's what they get for using plural in table names

evbogue2• 3 years ago

Maybe someone backed it up?

Brajeshwar• 3 years ago

It used to be a celebration of how popular Twitter was becoming when one sees the Fail Whale - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Outages

justinzollars4• 3 years ago

Yeah, they need to bring the fail whale back!

jerojero• 3 years ago

Seems 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• 3 years ago

I 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• 3 years ago

Imagine 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• 3 years ago

Sucks for the oncall engineers

Hamuko2• 3 years ago

Is 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• 3 years ago

With any luck it's permanent

u3202• 3 years ago

The timing couldn't be worse. Threads just launched in EU so the site has seen a big boost in activity.

radium3d2• 3 years ago

Threads kinda sucks, it just shows you what their algorithm wants to show you, no ability to search for posts is pretty lame.

Hamuko2• 3 years ago

Are 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• 3 years ago

I deleted X to break this habit and cos it is becoming an Elon Musk vanity project so don’t care if it’s down

jeffhuys2• 3 years ago

I care so little that I make a comment about it, showing how little I care.

BrokenGizmo• 3 years ago

Remember Digg v4?

knewter• 3 years ago

Redis is down oops.

radium3d2• 3 years ago

The 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?

u3202• 3 years ago

It looks to be working again, at least for me.

evbogue2• 3 years ago

Yah it's up again. Damnit now how will Threads take off.

jeffhuys2• 3 years ago

Confirmed

ForFreedom• 3 years ago

Its working now

bryanrasmussen2• 3 years ago

it's up again.

Log_out_• 3 years ago

? Shows the Xitter login screen and is the landing page? I thought up down monitoring should be hosted by different services?

ChrisArchitect• 3 years ago

Ask HN:

malephex• 3 years ago

Elon probably didn't pay the compute bill.

Is Twitter/X Down

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