If it's really a DDoS attack, I assume the perpetrators picked the time most inconvenient to current employees, which I believe are mostly located in the Bay Area compared to pre-Elon years where Twitter had a more geographically distributed workforce.
It's giving me problems and has been very inconsistent for about 90 minutes to 2 hours at this point. I got a partial refresh of my feed, but a lot is not working. The Grok AI appears down as well.
I don't think Threads is dying, I believe Meta's numbers are actually quite good.
But the content pushed by its engagement algorithm makes the experience pretty far from what I'd expect from a serious Twitter alternative, even after several apparent tweaks. It could be a good platform for brands and celebrities though.
Yeah Threads feels like a flipped house; pretty finishes and big open concept rooms that draw you in before you can realize its all a facade and full of engagement bait
You have control over what is suggested by the algo, and can make several different feeds - in addition to just a feed of your follows. Rather than whatever "For You" is doing on Twitter these days.
I don't believe Twitter has the ability to do multiple algorithmically driven feeds but its been a while since I used it. I think Twitter "lists" might be the closest thing to it but thats just different follows. My understanding was that "For You" has gone through a number of changes, most of them for the worst, in the last year or so. Bluesky also has some interesting personal moderation filters - for instance I can subscribe to published block lists, maintained by other users.
Yup. There's the basic chronological feed. There's a Discover and Popular with Friends feed. But, you can create your own feeds and/or subscribe to feeds that other people have created. You can have feeds for a specific topic or subculture. They can be manually curated or algorithmically; the idea is that can you subscribe to your own recommendation algorithm. They can be as simple or as complex as you'd like. Plus, you typically know who created a feed. Let's say you want to hear about AI news. There could be a curated AI, assuming someone cares about to garden it.
For me it began when he started suspending journalists or anyone who criticized him (so much for pro-free speech), lying about almost everything and still every day. He also started siding with racist commenters and white supremacists. And if that wasn't enough, the whole salute thing was disgusting and absolutely irresponsible. So yeah his pro Russian statements don't surprise me at all.
One of my first jobs was working at a fast food place, and my first night on the job, I was taking the trash out, and the thing tipped over, spilling it all over the parking lot, and I just said "fuck this" and went home and never came back. If I worked at Twitter right now, I'd be thinking about doing something like that again.
IANAL, but I would take down the redirect if I were you. Registering "twitter" as a domain name is already fraught as it is, but using it as a redirect to a competitor (ie. mastodon) basically makes it a slam dunk case that you're registering in "bad faith".
Not my area of engineering, so forgive me, but: is an external DDOS a plausible threat for competently engineered public service in 2025? I kind of got the impression those were solved problems in practice?
Is there any source for this being an attack other than Elon's tweet. I hope reporters aren't just taking his word for this given all of his past lies.
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[ 12.4 ms ] story [ 2538 ms ] threadUse this one:
https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
I tried loading the messages around 9:30 AM ET, and none of the notification messages nor my timeline loaded. It distinctly felt like server issues.
Seems like they've been having issues all day?
Not envying their oncall engineers right now.
But the content pushed by its engagement algorithm makes the experience pretty far from what I'd expect from a serious Twitter alternative, even after several apparent tweaks. It could be a good platform for brands and celebrities though.
It's VC funded - so it remains to be seen how it evolves
twitter has that
>There's a Discover
twitter has that
>you can create your own feeds and/or subscribe to feeds that other people have created
twitter has that
Blueksy also has unique labelers and moderation lists. My favorite is the politician donor labeler.
West Coast Liberal → https://bsky.app/
Bundesrepublik KDE → https://joinmastodon.org/
"I bet Mark Zuckerberg won't get any weirder" → https://www.threads.net/
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2024-02-21-en
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322397
Not my area of engineering, so forgive me, but: is an external DDOS a plausible threat for competently engineered public service in 2025? I kind of got the impression those were solved problems in practice?
> There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X.
> We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.
> Tracing …
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825
Seems like they forgot to put some services behind Cloudflare. CTO should be fired then. Oh, wait.