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Twitter's own internal url shortener ran out of API credits

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Twitter itself is entirely down for me,

> Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information

This is just going to https://twitter.com/

“We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences.”

(Covers...so much of what has happened at Twitter since Musk took over.)

https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/163279294226274713...

"The person in charge doesn't understand how things work and ham fistedly cuts out services"

The exact way it failed makes it so much funnier

Is this what they call "technical debt"?

I think this is more like technical bankruptcy

That horrible moment when you come home from a four week vacation and, just as the smell hits, suddenly remember you were dogfooding...

It's interesting to me that this has only started happening now. Makes me wonder what kind of mess was happening behind the scenes and how it was being papered over before Musk took over. This doesn't just happen overnight.

We've all been there, we rush out a temporary fix that turns into a permanent fixture. I suspect with the cost cutting measures it's all caught up with the team now.

All the people who knew how to properly operate the infrastructure have been fired.

The API has been recently cut down, hastily, by a skeleton crew that most likely had no idea how these things were supposed to be set up.

No doubt big long-term projects have tech debt, but this case seems like a common configuration error.

Can't load twitter.com on desktop

This is way too hilarious

It's funny how quickly #HugOps was wiped from the collective memory after the Twitter purchase.

It's like engineers are demonstrably more immature and childish than the petulant children they seek to deride.

I haven't seen anyone blaming the engineers. Everyone knows they're completely overstretched.

HugOps is a way to show empathy and appreciation for the real people who are involved in building, shipping, and running software. The other comments in this thread are doing nothing of the sort.

> The other comments in this thread are doing nothing if the sort.

> It's like engineers are demonstrably more immature and childish than the petulant children they seek to deride.

It sounds like a suit driven buzzword for not being a piece of trash at work

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