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motyar
yes, can't send tweets.
mwill
Also experiencing issues. Weirdly on mobile I'm still getting like/RT/reply notifications but I can't actually open and load the tweet I'm getting notifications on.

Edit: What's weird/unexpected is I just got a "twitter is better on the app" popup...ON the app? I'm not even sure how that would be possible, does the twitter webapp/mobile app share that much code?

fooey
My mobile works, but I can't get anything at all to work on web
icey
Yep, was logged out of some accounts and able to log back in on the web, but no timeline is loading.
throwawayxxf
Crazy thought: if there was to be a major event (say a Russian invasion of Ukraine) would taking down Twitter, which seems to have a high proportion of journalists and politicians on it, not be a smart move? The few hours of confusion it would buy might be valuable.

It’s most likely just a run-of-the-mill outage, but the thought crossed my mind.

Hamuko
I'm not seeing the value. Basically foreign civilians would be a couple of hours late to know about a foreign war?
guerrilla
Meanwhile pissing a lot of people off, turning more against them and making it harder for their own propagandists. Seems like a net negative.
_moof
Occam's razor says it's the same thing it's always been: a bad release or a capacity problem.
AzzieElbab
I am more worried about US/Canada border
alex_anglin
How would that take down Twitter?
AzzieElbab
How is Russia invading Ukraine would take down Twitter? Does Twitter keep their DCs in Luhansk? I was speaking in context of significant ongoing global developments
throwawayxxf
It would create widespread confusion in at least two of its principal rivals, the UK and US, and slow their ability to react.
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WilTimSon
Twitter's popularity in many places isn't nearly the same as in the anglo-speaking world, though I don't know the stats for the countries in your example. I'd say if internet access just got spotty in those areas, that would certainly benefit any kind of panic that might happen.
2OEH8eoCRo0
It's interesting there hasn't been so much as a peep about the Russia/Ukraine situation on here. I wonder why.
kgeist
I remember back in 2014, just before annexing Crimea, Russian operatives managed to shut off the power to the Ukrainian army's headquarters in Crimea, leading to a lot of confusion and inability to communicate (they had to use mobile phones). I think what's more likely, and more useful, is to somehow isolate Ukraine itself from the rest of the world (instead of just Twitter), so that the news of the invasion could not spread outside. Although in either case you still can't do much about satellite images.
Markoff
you would need to take down also Whatsapp, Facebook and telegram as well, though people could still exchange emails
pfist
Visiting Twitter.com on my desktop shows an error page and refreshes the page every second or so. Definitely seems to be something on their end.
jdkjs
Having the client make a request every second is a sure way of staying down in case of overload
machiaweliczny
I wonder if connected to LostArk deployment problems
AzzieElbab
web is not working, login is not working, lists are not working, cant send/reply. mobile feed works and shows only old tweets
patio11
Also seeing it here in Japan and has been reported by my coworkers across multiple continents. The twitter.com site is also broken; not accepting cookied sessions nor logins.
mig39
I can read and like tweets, but can't send new ones.
sebst
Yes can confirm from the Netherlands
dorianmariefr
There was a @paulg tweet saying that if there are multiple explanations for an event, choose the most boring one. Very much agree

edit: found it on Twitter search thanks to another comment

> Between two possible explanations for an event, prefer the more boring one.

capableweb
Which is known as "Occam's Razor" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor), often said in this manner:

> when you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.

A theory which origins can be traced as far back as ~1300.

totally
If things had been different it could have been called "Occam's Tweet"
_moof
Seems like lately we've gone from "when you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra" to "if you see a horse, it's definitely a centaur."
LordAtlas
Well, my productivity just went up.
cosheaf
This is why centralized platforms are a bad idea. In case of an outage people have no idea what to do other than panic.
ceejayoz
There are vanishingly few people for whom Twitter being down for a couple of hours induces panic.
cosheaf
You should look at the comments.
ceejayoz
They're overwhelmingly casual, and "people who actively comment on downdetector.com" seems to fit solidly inside the definition of "vanishingly few".
Markoff
while I agree that's why I have also accounts on other Twitter alternatives
jeffbee
Twitter is so weird. They have a big technical staff but they never, ever launch features, leading people to believe all the work is being done on reliability and efficiency on the backend, but at the same time they have total outages regularly and don't turn profits.
guerrilla
> never, ever launch features

They launch features all the time: the new UI, longer tweets, reply hiding, moderating who can reply, spaces, etc. It's a long list.

jeffbee
Longer tweets was launched five years ago.
robjan
They've recently launched a Clubhouse clone and monetisation features
guerrilla
Yes and it's been a constant stream of feature drops since.
pmlnr
> Can’t seem to load threads

Threads should never have been a thing, so maybe people now start writing articles instead on their own platform.