> On Saturday people were posting entire feature films, 2 minutes per tweet, because apparently their copyright content matching wasn’t working.

That’s funny but at the same time it’s easy to find stuff like that on youtube and has been forever.

Those are hardly “Twitter going down”. They’re normal medium-severity outages that could have happened anywhere.

Sure, it’s plausible they were made more likely by so many people leaving, but they’re not exactly the meltdown people predicted.

I would use it as a case in point. You have one group claiming that Twitter is completely on fire and soon to be closed, and the other saying it's never been better and there was zero fallout from rapidly firing thousands of people including a lot of engineers.

Neither of those extreme viewpoints reflected reality accurately. There were significant problems, but they did not take the entire site down or anything. In fact, for millions who did not have 2FA or use it at that point, they did not see any issue. Whereas people that wanted to find an issue could go looking for the movies. So each side was able to find ways to reinforce their alternate realities.

that's surprising actually. I'd expect my sites to run for about a year if i suddenly died. maybe longer. certs will renew themselves, servers will restart themselves. everything is on autopay. the thing to kill it would probably be api breaks by 3rd parties. maybe disk space would kill me eventually too.. i don't have auto resizing for my sql database but its got a long runway yet. or god forbid my site grows on its own and the qps kills it.

It's hard to really say whether that was due to something Elon did or if it was just a normal outage from code deployments, hardware failures, etc. Anything that might seem like an outage will be magnified now because everyone will think it was Elon's doing and it will get tons of clicks. The reality is that these huge sites have a dozen small/medium outages almost every day, but almost no one notices.

The QRT system doesn't work (if a post says it has 200 quote tweets, you can always open it and never see any), but then again, it never did seem to work.

It's still entirely believable the site will go down and remain down for a week or two at any time.

The extent of the 2FA issue I saw - which, by the way, was w.r.t. sms-based 2fa login, not other 2fa methods - was a single screenshot making this claim.

Was there more I missed?

At least one high-follower account on my timeline posted that their newest notifications were from October