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Twitter is having issues in NZ

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19 pointsmosajjal19 comments

It might just be me but I've been experiencing problems here in Australia as well. Timeline not loading properly.

I think they reduced the number of servers a week or so ago as part of the cost-saving measures. It probably doesn't affect the place where Musk lives but it does affect remote regions (which for these purposes, Australia and NZ are).

Confirmed still down in Australia two hours later. (I'm on the NBN, with Aussie).

"doesn't affect the place where Musk lives"

lol!

Twitter going down permanently was weird hysteria. But Twitter just operating poorly - as it has for the past few weeks - reminds me of the failwhale era of a decade ago. For the current pace of product changes, I don't see it being a worthwhile trade off.

I think if the CEO hadn’t been waging culture war, the respectable opinion would be that this is fine temporarily as they get the totally new workforce and infrastructure situation sorted. In context with what really smart people were saying about how Twitter would respond to Musk’s changes, though, I think it’s a spectacular success. (Which doesn’t really change how I feel about the culture war stuff.)

If the now-CEO-and-primary-owner wasn’t committed to waging culture war, the purchase wouldn’t have happened. It’s not an unrelated occurrence.

I’m well aware and agree.

It feels far too early to draw much of a conclusion. I’ve left stuff hanging around for years without it falling over, but not been happy about it. I’m sure we all have. The point is that eventually you need to touch it, and nobody knows how it works, and it’s covered in cobwebs. That sort of stuff just takes time to happen.

I usually live in the US, but I’ve been in Australia for the last couple of weeks on holidays. Twitter is unbearably slow here, and video on Twitter is basically unusable (most videos fail to load in the timeline). And this experience is the same using cellular and various WiFi sources, so it’s not an ISP problem.

The post was about New Zealand. Internet speeds here are fortunately generally heaps better than in Australia

I think that OP is implying that it’s a Twitter regional infrastructure problem, in which case - and I’d happily be corrected on this by anyone that actually knows Twitter’s infra - I’d imagine that NZ and AU are largely intertwined.

I’m sure that if the take was “the internet here is too slow for video” the typical HN commenter would know that it’s not relevant to this thread. This is ignoring the fact that the typical Australian internet connection is more then capable of handling what OP is not able to do.

Its Telstra problem. In AU they have data caps on internal traffic inside their shiny national fiberoptic network.

a lot of global companies rely on only US/EU servers to provide web services. leaves a lot of Asian countries to reach to the closest server to grab the data. in case of Twitter, that's usually US servers hence at least 300ms latency per request

I’m getting pretty frustrated with links out to tweets that are then non accessible for whatever reason, technical or political.

I think it’s time HN deprecated Twitter as a first grade platform for sharing public notices.

I haven't been able to access it at all from here in Australia since lunchtime... Neither on my 4G nor my home NBN internet. It's still not loading, hours and hours later!

Still down in Australia.

Whenever I hear about a software problem in NZ, my immediate reaction is: “time zone issue!”

And here I was thinking it was a global outage.

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