Twitter C/D

https://media0.giphy.com/media/EzghvtN9sxSfK/giphy.webp?cid=6c09b952edb6474190476f30eb1cffbef075157f821ff357&rid=giphy.webp&ct=g

tbh between my post not long ago about how maybe Elon’s strategy could work, if he wasn’t such a self-aggrandizing weirdo, and my recent attempts to understand latter-day SV mindset, I’ve been starting to question if I should have tried to move out to the bay area to join a startup fifteen years ago

y'all really like saying 'bootlicker' huh

Yeah sorry, these types of people are the exact reason why people like me had to leave the Bay Area. I don’t care about them losing their jobs or their fortunes or anything— many of them will have made in a few years what I will make in the next decade. Fuck them and fuck their defenders.

elon has done many bad, stupid things with twitter, but one thing he deserves credit for is switching up the buttons seemingly at random multiple times a day. this is important to prevent the formation of muscle memory, keeping users from entering The Poster’s Flow

— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) February 28, 2023

if this tweet made you laugh, dont forget to smash that mfin bookmark button

— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) February 28, 2023

Completely down right now?

Yes, "Welcome to Twitter! Here's some suggestions for you to get started!"

front pages ("for you" and "following") are both down; individual timelines are still there tho i'm not sure if they're updating (possible artefact of ppl not updating them during downtime)

if you click on the #twitterdown hashtag it takes you to the "top" timeline for that hashtag but if you then click on "latest" it tells you that no such hashtag can be found lol

"Welcome to Twitter" 242K Tweets

Mastodon...coming soon.

individual timelines do update but i'm, not sure in what circs anyone else can see them ("for you" and "following" do not update to include these updates)

pic.twitter.com/PwjJRP9LgG

— 🧐 🎭 🚮 ‼muad'dob dee‼ 🚮 🎭 🧐 (@dubdobdee) March 1, 2023

"for you" is now back tho the quickly findable recent tweet in mine (which not at the top) is 12 hrs old, and most of them are 19 or more hrs old

Yup, same

everything's back 😔

💕

Back to provide all the top quality disinformation.

BREAKING: Biden calls for a national draft. Men and women are to be selected to fight in Ukriane.

BIDEN: "The recommended way forward will be to invoke the Selective Service Act, as is my authority as president,"pic.twitter.com/vD6rkBB5Dm

— ThePatriotOasis (@ThePatriotOasis) February 27, 2023

false flag deep fake

The web app has been giving me "there was a login to your account from a new device" notifications like crazy since yesterday. I log in and out a lot and as far as I can tell every instance is me. I changed my pwd to be safe and it keeps happening. Great site!

same here. have been using the website more because the app is a pile of garbage recently (nothing in Following, posts from people i'm following in For You, and then posts from last month)

Following, posts from people i'm following in For You

Underrated Spacemen 3 album.

Love album track imo

Of course nu Twitter wouldn’t dare take a deepfake video of the president down but they will tack on a little contextual note at the bottom as they platform it.

― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg)

men and women, huh? whew, i knew legally changing my gender to non-binary would pay off

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64804007

{"errors":[{"message":"Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information","code":467}]}

in the official client, clicking on a link to a nytimes story!

heh

yeah seems to be down, again. may it stay down.

lol i clicked the link in this tweet from the error message and got the error

soooo trying to click off any link from Twitter now gets this error message for me.

{"errors":[{"message":"Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://t.co/ztgMfpKFlA for more information","code":467}]}

— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) March 6, 2023

lol

still trying to shut down the public api without locking themselves out i see

its hard

media seems to be not loading now too

"Musk fell into the classic self-taught coder trap of writing what developers call hairballs—big, monolithic hunks of code that could go berserk for mysterious reasons."

From Ashlee Vance's Musk bio, on the Zip2 days when Musk was doing hardcore coding.

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) March 6, 2023

I can’t load tweets at all on mobile web rn

big web is working for me but its def very slow

is this considered good

https://i.imgur.com/eioEF0t.png

ah ok

TWITTER SAYS MADE AN INTERNAL CHANGE THAT HAD SOME UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES; WORKING ON THIS NOW AND WILL SHARE AN UPDATE WHEN IT’S FIXED

— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) March 6, 2023

freestyling on prod like god intended

Yeah no external links working at all. Fun.

I logged out of the web client and got the same JSON error c&p'd above, now if I try to load the main page that's all that appears

LOL

https://www.flagship.io/wp-content/uploads/test-in-production-meme-2.jpg

what elon shouldve done was fire everyone except for the developers and then just let them go hog wild why not have a lil fun

API issue seems to be resolved, for now anyway. Who knows what's next? It's providing an added dose of daily chaos in our lives, it's good, it makes us adaptable. Elon doesn't want us to get stuck in our ruts, gotta shake things up.

there's this meme that twitter doesn't have a dev environment but ... it does. it's pretty easy to catch this class of configuration bug because all twitter employees on the internal network get the dev environment when they visit twitter.com. i'm guessing part of the the problem now is there are so few users outside pacific time, so they make a change in the middle of the night, don't get any complaints because there are no internal users in like tokyo or singapore any more, and think that means it's good to ship.

*it's pretty easy = it used to be pretty easy.

looks like tweetdeck is finally down for good.

takes skill to blow up the auth layer so badly you also make it impossible to load images from your CDN

Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!

heh total rewrite should do the trick

“A small API change had massive ramifications,” Musk tweeted later in the day, after Twitter investor Marc Andreessen posted a screenshot showing that the company’s API failures were trending on the site. “The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. Will ultimately need a complete rewrite.”

NEW: Twitter went down today because its migration to a paid API has a single site reliability engineer attached to it. Here’s @ZoeSchiffer and me on the high price of cutting costs:https://t.co/yjAHeVkgYl pic.twitter.com/6QVURpHagc

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) March 6, 2023

total rewrite of one of the lowest latency and highest scale consumer tech stacks in human history, sure.

tbf they’ve made it a lot slower recently