Twitter experiences longest global outage in years

Me neither. I am not on it enough to care and increasingly I am seeing less and less value from Twitter, especially after learning that less than 10% of it is actually active and most of the noise is coming from a cluster of individuals who will build narratives that ultimately benefit them.

Good thing that you could announce that prideness on this other social media then. ;)

I'm more than slightly proud, actually. I can't remember the last time a "major" social media site had an outage that affected me. That includes Twitter, HN, Facebook, and Github (since that's turning into a social site now).

Any time a social media system goes down, I feel like Depth Gauge in Waterworld[0].

It is an end (albeit temporary) to lack of social contact (because they are too busy to meet in person or talk to me face to face), but with an ironic boom, I only hear how miserable they are because the social media is down.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114898/characters/nm0696512

> This is downright dystopic and people don't get it. A countrys exceptional situation where a they get a new leader which is not being democratically decided by the people, but a minority of Tories that have the time to read "barbs" on Twitter.

That's not dystopian, it's just how that system of government works. Literally no system will satisfy everyone, and direct democracy has its own well-known flaws.

For what it's worth, a lot of US liberals are currently fetishising parliamentary systems like the UK's.

Journalists might start engaging with the wider public again rather than constructing their stories from within an echo chamber.

Users'd probably just join Reddit. It's full of snark and outrage too

Elon would make his own Twitter called Doge-r, and a company that developed it and also did construction, so he could have dump trucks called Dogers (as in bulldozer), jokes about "taking a dump", etc

As tempting it is to write world peace and leave, that wouldn't be true.

Biggest unofficial support channel would be closed.

Also my large smut collection would be inaccessible.

A small short-lived productivity increase, followed by a mad rush of other services trying to spin up (or scale up if already running) and piling lots of man-hours into advertising themselves as the best replacement. Also many miles of column-space pontificating on the whys/wherefores, and a few people will try to sue because there was one little bit of irreplaceable information on there that is vital to them and they didn't have backed up elsewhere. Other than that, little or nothing of long-lasting consequence I expect.

No hate to any of the engineers there, but honestly, it would be a net positive for society.

The level of vitriol, hate, and performative outrage has reached up to the gods on Twitter. The valuable signal that comes out has long been overwhelmed by the noise.

There are other platforms that largely fulfill the same purpose.

Mr Musk buying it for a cheaper price

Twitter execs are smart - let him continue using twitter and keep digging his own ego driven grave. After all that's all he has done all these years on that platform.

Yours is "Twitter's Down" while this is a link to an article; not that yours necessarily should have been flagged (although that's a community decision so apparently several people thought it should have been) but they're not the same post.