Twitter's status page shows “no incidents reported” for Dec. 28 global outage

Could just be dysfunction, but Musk’s behavior makes it look more likely it’s an intentional lie: his only comments have been “Works for me” in the midst of it [1], and “Significant backend server architecture changes rolled out. Twitter should feel faster.” just after [2].

[1]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1608273870901096454

[2]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1608324539779551232

I wonder if anyone left knows about the status page, or has access/ability to edit it. Or, more cynically, even cares.

Sometimes these parts of the processes, especially where there's external comms, are controlled so only specific teams can communicate to the public and put out an official message. If all those comms, incident management, etc teams were cut, it'll take a while to regain control of the site.

Typically you'd want your status page hosted on different infra too, so it doesn't go down when your main infra does, or even easier, out with a SaaS provider. There are a bunch who provide this.

This one is StatusPage (Atlassian) and those licenses to get edit access aren't that cheap either. Not something you'd just hand out to everyone in tech and comms regardless.

I wonder if this is a deliberate attempt to try to claim later there was no Dec. 28 outage. After all, in a year or two the Twitter status page will be considered pretty authoritative in online debates.

Amazing. I love that the response is "works for me".

Interesting, the status page blocks Mullvad (Edge reports: It looks like api.twitterstat.us closed the connection). Twitter itself works fine. Doesn't seem to be an Atlassian thing, given that Dropbox's status page works fine.

So, using the same method that Musk has been for reporting on hate content since the takeover thaf has it going down, while every external source monitoring Twitter has it going way up.

https://archive.ph/63lt1 for posterity

What was the incident?