[0] https://github.com/TwidereProject/Twidere-Android/releases/t...
All Systems Operational
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...
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.
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.
To any HN admins, sorry! I meant nothing by it!
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.
Edit - had a tab open and managed to grab some of the points here: https://imgur.com/a/7AlBlXw
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.
Also, 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.
Anyway..