Is Twitter/X Down
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if you had said something about how the moneyed interests make the rules you would then be on to something substantive though.
Pre-acquisition the unwritten rule on Twitter was you could always do (and could never do) anything that aligned with the board and the equity holders. The rules that existed were theirs.
A major outage at 10PM PST is not fun :\ sorry Twitter ops.
/s aside, you're correct, it's an awful time of the year to be last engineer standing watch over a major traffic site falling down.
Any such real-world stories?
I wonder if we'll get some kind of clarification on what happened. Those posts are always fun to read as you get to see what goes wrong on big software with millions of users!
It should be back working soon, i hope. Hopefully no data is lost.
Even people who have paid for the service evidently.
This kind of thing in a hypermedia application sure is problematic, because for example I have made lots of articles out on other services with embeds of tweets in those articles when I guess it would be more trustworthy to take screenshots.
Huh, maybe some essential people to keep this kind of thing from happening were recently let go.
This is a bigger screw up than that time my X account got suspended! https://medium.com/luminasticity/x-suspension-news-44664b6b2...
I suppose there will be a lot of people making backups of their content now.
If there was someone clever in control there they would add a feature that it would only give you the backup since your last backup (with notice of course) and you would have to actually request a FULL backup that would probably save the servers a lot of work in the coming weeks. But there seems to be an ongoing narrative that there isn't someone clever in control there.