The occassional existential reminder that it's Very Bad to be so dependent on a single platform....when Twitter goes down, my first instinct is to frantically search Twitter for information on the outage, putting me briefly into an unfun recursive loop.
It’s been acting weird for days. A significant percentage of accounts I simply couldn’t ever reply to. Always the same accounts. But I could always reply to others.
Looks like the site was rolled back somehow, I got a few followers back that I previously lost, and others are complaining on there that they lost followers unexpectedly.
I have all the helpful "filters" disabled and still regularly miss notifications for replies - it seems like Twitter doesn't notify you when a "small" account, the ones whose replies get hidden for some AI's random reason, replies.
There exist "advanced filter settings" - I don't remember which are the defaults, but you might want to look at them:
"... Quality filter, when turned on, filters lower-quality content from your notifications, for example, duplicate Tweets or content that appears to be automated ...
In addition to enabling the quality filter, you can choose to disable notifications from the following types of accounts:
- Accounts that are new (that you don’t follow).
- Accounts that don’t follow you (that you don’t follow).
- Accounts you don’t follow.
- Accounts with a default profile photo (that you don’t follow).
- Accounts without a confirmed email address (that you don’t follow).
- Accounts without a confirmed phone number (that you don’t follow)."
So many things don't work properly on Twitter. I've just embraced the dysfunctionality of it all. I look like a total jerk when I don't notice replies, but I can't afford the time it takes to click through 20 pages just to be sure that no replies are unanswered... Too much work is involved in being active on Twitter, the "reduce clicks" UI/UX movement is officially dead. :(
Did anyone get a chance to screenshot Dave Troy's tweets from this morning? They were quite sharp, directed at Elon and Twitter Inc. Just a coincidence the platform goes down minutes after these tweets get posted?
Quick HN question... I posted this as well (prior to this post) and it was "flagged"? I titled mine "Twitter is down hard". Perhaps my titling made it seem like I was trying to be mean or something? As a developer, I was trying to convey that it was very much down across all apps, sites, services. I thought that was the proper parlance but perhaps not.
TweetDeck is also down, returning `{"errors":[{"code":131,"message":"Internal error."}]}`.
Edit: Looks like API calls from the Twitter web app are getting the same response too.
Edit 2: TweetDeck now loads a login page rather than the JSON error. API calls seem to be returning `{"errors":[{"message":"Over capacity","code":130}]}` now.
I have a cron job to build my site every day at 1200 UTC so that it *will* access the Twitter API, to populate the contents of tweets that my site repros as fully static elements (the cron job is due to occasional glitches in image caching on Twitter’s part). I saw the job had failed but neither the host nor GitHub Actions seemed to be in trouble. Only when I pulled up the log and saw the API call error message did I realize what really was going on.
I get an API Error telling me "Failed to fetch user details for logout: Missing auth headers", and every other API call has an 403. If I go to "api.twitter.com" the domain does not exist.
Possibly because the Twitter website loads, but all the requests to get the actual data are failing. I wonder if Down for Everyone views that as a 200 and moves along
The outrage is not evenly distributed. Could be location specific. I'm still seeing updates and did not experience any issues. So without annotating where the checks were made from, the monitoring could be confusing.
Exactly. When a global digital crack / cocaine drugs store closes down on a week day, at first there will be a large frustration from the 'users' queuing for their daily dose and then afterwards the effects of the drug will subside and they will move on, if it fails to reopen soon.
Maybe not for Twitter once it shortly reopens its stores worldwide and the outrage machine, bots, manipulation and the melting down of the emotions of many users continues.
When it came back I had 2-4 more followers that I lost in days prior.
I'm no rocket scientist, but that indicates to me that they might have restored something from a backup volume.
Followers on Twitter and interactions have been stagnant for ages in my experience there, actually having followers probably makes no sense on most of these social accounts any more, as they are throttling how users see content so much to drive ad sales.
If you really look at what goes viral on Twitter daily, and what trends constantly, it becomes very apparent that the entire experience is carefully managed by moderation and marketing that constantly leans towards sensational and controversial news... It's torturous to use Twitter now compared to years past, and they just don't care to change the user experience. I envision that most of the real people on the platform now only use it in small doses.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 147 ms ] threadAlso, it seems like even https://blog.twitter.com was down right now for a moment (but just restored).
The occassional existential reminder that it's Very Bad to be so dependent on a single platform....when Twitter goes down, my first instinct is to frantically search Twitter for information on the outage, putting me briefly into an unfun recursive loop.
Looks like the site was rolled back somehow, I got a few followers back that I previously lost, and others are complaining on there that they lost followers unexpectedly.
[0] https://github.com/TwidereProject/Twidere-Android/releases/t...
We should run a bet pool on the root cause of the outage... (just kidding, we'll never know the real cause).
"... Quality filter, when turned on, filters lower-quality content from your notifications, for example, duplicate Tweets or content that appears to be automated ...
In addition to enabling the quality filter, you can choose to disable notifications from the following types of accounts:
- Accounts that are new (that you don’t follow).
- Accounts that don’t follow you (that you don’t follow).
- Accounts you don’t follow.
- Accounts with a default profile photo (that you don’t follow).
- Accounts without a confirmed email address (that you don’t follow).
- Accounts without a confirmed phone number (that you don’t follow)."
https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/understand...
Edit - had a tab open and managed to grab some of the points here: https://imgur.com/a/7AlBlXw
[1] https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1547547608251568128
To any HN admins, sorry! I meant nothing by it!
Edit: Looks like API calls from the Twitter web app are getting the same response too.
Edit 2: TweetDeck now loads a login page rather than the JSON error. API calls seem to be returning `{"errors":[{"message":"Over capacity","code":130}]}` now.
[1] https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1987/fail-whale
Maybe not for Twitter once it shortly reopens its stores worldwide and the outrage machine, bots, manipulation and the melting down of the emotions of many users continues.
Not good for the brain at all.
I'm no rocket scientist, but that indicates to me that they might have restored something from a backup volume.
Followers on Twitter and interactions have been stagnant for ages in my experience there, actually having followers probably makes no sense on most of these social accounts any more, as they are throttling how users see content so much to drive ad sales.
If you really look at what goes viral on Twitter daily, and what trends constantly, it becomes very apparent that the entire experience is carefully managed by moderation and marketing that constantly leans towards sensational and controversial news... It's torturous to use Twitter now compared to years past, and they just don't care to change the user experience. I envision that most of the real people on the platform now only use it in small doses.
Could just be stale/incorrect cache data getting wiped. That's more common in my experience.