Twitter Outage

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JC7702y ago· 14 in thread

Now that Twitter has become Elon Musk's toy, is it still worth going?

markstos2y ago

Lots of folks including myself are finding Mastodon a viable, decentralized alternative.

WaffleIronMaker2y ago

Yeah! So many cool people are on Mastodon!

It was initially weird, not having any algorithm to feed me content, but after finding people you want to follow, it's a great platform!

I just saw a post about how "Mastodon is for what you love, not what you hate", and I think that's the reason it feels so refreshing to me, instead of Twitter.

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sixothree2y ago

I find it a more hostile place to be in general. Belligerent republicans seem emboldened to add politics in a hostile manner to literally every topic.

No. Thank. You.

nebula88042y ago

Agreed. There is still gold there but now you have to dig through a mound of excrement to get to it. The less time I spend there the better. I just quick link to my favorite people, read their updates and then get off. I'm missing out on a lot of additional good stuff but I am tired of digging through cruft to see it.

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3cats-in-a-coat2y ago

It's a nice case study of mismanagement. And social dynamics.

tekla2y ago

Twitter is still fun. So yes

stcroixx2y ago

Do you enjoy mixing with people with views opposed to yours or does that upset you?

martin84122y ago

I generally find it a waste of time since it has nothing to do with difference of opinion. It's the anti-woke/culture war mob who makes up opinions that you supposedly have and then expects you to waste your time refuting an opinion you never had.

You'd get more intelligent debate with a monkey at the zoo and probably considerably less shit flung in your face.

JumpinJack_Cash2y ago

Social media should not be exclusively about views, it should be about finding people with common interests to improve your skills and knowledge in that topic and perhaps one day do stuff in the real world with the circle of people who have your same common interest.

Twitter has always been a boxing ring more than a townsquare, and even more since Musk acquisition.

If that is the state of affairs I'd rather step in a real ring, win or lose you'll feel something more intense than winning/losing an argument on Twitter.

Pxtl2y ago

If it were reasonable discussions, then yes. But when it's bluechecks who call everybody who disagrees with them a pedophile, less so.

add-sub-mul-div2y ago

In principle yes, in practice on a platform dedicated to culture war bait no.

Timon32y ago

You're deliberately leaving out the part where the views have to also be allowed by Elon. Free speech and all, except for if you write "cisgender".

treeman792y ago

Drastically better than before.

All sorts of view points, far less bots just spamming each other. People trying to sell illegal images are drastically reduced or gone.

Before it was just an echo chamber of far left talking points. Now all sides can say what they want.

Highly recommend @catturd2 for good example of speech that used to be banned.

Of course those who love Orwellian systems are free to hate the changes.

Pxtl2y ago

Okay, you've insulted everybody you've disagreed with as "Orwellian", claimed the bots are gone which is hilariously false, and claimed that Musk cleared out the CSAM which no he has not:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/06/06/twitt...

Your media diet is extremely unhealthy.

andrei_says_2y ago· 3 in thread

Are Twitter outages still newsworthy?

Almost every day I am unable to load tweet images, unable to load threads, unable to load a person’s tweets. For a few days now I haven’t been able to refresh the main timeline. All in the official app.

I’ve accepted this as the new normal for someone like me who will never pay for a subscription to just read a few tweets.

The quick enshittification of Twitter curbs my social media use so I guess that’s one good outcome.

legrande2y ago

I routinely get outages. Then I go to HN to see if anyone has the same problem, but there's nothing. I imagine people have experienced 'outage fatigue' with Twitter. It's the new normal now.

3cats-in-a-coat2y ago

They're less newsworthy because they're more frequent.

But they're more newsworthy because everyone knows Musk is freaking out every time it happens.

Breads and circuses, man.

rvz2y ago

Well the speed bumps are more magnified these days to craft a narrative of 'broken Twitter' in the news. Instagram allegedly had an 'outage' [0] but of course it is ignored as it doesn't fit the current narrative; thus is not magnified.

GitHub for example, goes down more times than both Twitter and Instagram, every month and somehow that is acceptable and not a sign of GitHub slowly falling apart.

I bet that as soon as GitHub goes down, we will see the same old complaints about it on HN and when it comes back up, it will be accepted and forgotten about. Rinse and repeat.

[0] https://downdetector.com/status/instagram

thesuperbigfrog2y ago· 1 in thread

s/Twitter Outage/Twitter Outrage/g ?

belthesar2y ago

Oh, so it wasn't just me. Good to know.

r7212y ago

Yes, a spike of reports is visible on downdetector:

https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

UPD I'm observing an interesting bug at the moment - "Following" timeline shows a random subset of recent tweets, different one on each reload.

kubectl_h2y ago

Yeah I'm seeing issues loading tweets too.

ChrisArchitect2y ago

Tell HN:

leesalminen2y ago

Came here for this.

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29 comments

25 comments · 7 top-level

JC7702y ago· 14 in thread

Now that Twitter has become Elon Musk's toy, is it still worth going?

markstos2y ago

Lots of folks including myself are finding Mastodon a viable, decentralized alternative.

WaffleIronMaker2y ago

Yeah! So many cool people are on Mastodon!

It was initially weird, not having any algorithm to feed me content, but after finding people you want to follow, it's a great platform!

I just saw a post about how "Mastodon is for what you love, not what you hate", and I think that's the reason it feels so refreshing to me, instead of Twitter.

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sixothree2y ago

I find it a more hostile place to be in general. Belligerent republicans seem emboldened to add politics in a hostile manner to literally every topic.

No. Thank. You.

nebula88042y ago

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3cats-in-a-coat2y ago

It's a nice case study of mismanagement. And social dynamics.

tekla2y ago

Twitter is still fun. So yes

stcroixx2y ago

Do you enjoy mixing with people with views opposed to yours or does that upset you?

martin84122y ago

You'd get more intelligent debate with a monkey at the zoo and probably considerably less shit flung in your face.

JumpinJack_Cash2y ago

Twitter has always been a boxing ring more than a townsquare, and even more since Musk acquisition.

If that is the state of affairs I'd rather step in a real ring, win or lose you'll feel something more intense than winning/losing an argument on Twitter.

Pxtl2y ago

If it were reasonable discussions, then yes. But when it's bluechecks who call everybody who disagrees with them a pedophile, less so.

add-sub-mul-div2y ago

In principle yes, in practice on a platform dedicated to culture war bait no.

Timon32y ago

You're deliberately leaving out the part where the views have to also be allowed by Elon. Free speech and all, except for if you write "cisgender".

treeman792y ago

Drastically better than before.

All sorts of view points, far less bots just spamming each other. People trying to sell illegal images are drastically reduced or gone.

Before it was just an echo chamber of far left talking points. Now all sides can say what they want.

Highly recommend @catturd2 for good example of speech that used to be banned.

Of course those who love Orwellian systems are free to hate the changes.

Pxtl2y ago

Okay, you've insulted everybody you've disagreed with as "Orwellian", claimed the bots are gone which is hilariously false, and claimed that Musk cleared out the CSAM which no he has not:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/06/06/twitt...

Your media diet is extremely unhealthy.

andrei_says_2y ago· 3 in thread

Are Twitter outages still newsworthy?

I’ve accepted this as the new normal for someone like me who will never pay for a subscription to just read a few tweets.

The quick enshittification of Twitter curbs my social media use so I guess that’s one good outcome.

legrande2y ago

I routinely get outages. Then I go to HN to see if anyone has the same problem, but there's nothing. I imagine people have experienced 'outage fatigue' with Twitter. It's the new normal now.

3cats-in-a-coat2y ago

They're less newsworthy because they're more frequent.

But they're more newsworthy because everyone knows Musk is freaking out every time it happens.

Breads and circuses, man.

rvz2y ago

GitHub for example, goes down more times than both Twitter and Instagram, every month and somehow that is acceptable and not a sign of GitHub slowly falling apart.

I bet that as soon as GitHub goes down, we will see the same old complaints about it on HN and when it comes back up, it will be accepted and forgotten about. Rinse and repeat.

[0] https://downdetector.com/status/instagram

thesuperbigfrog2y ago· 1 in thread

s/Twitter Outage/Twitter Outrage/g ?

belthesar2y ago

Oh, so it wasn't just me. Good to know.

r7212y ago

Yes, a spike of reports is visible on downdetector:

https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

UPD I'm observing an interesting bug at the moment - "Following" timeline shows a random subset of recent tweets, different one on each reload.

kubectl_h2y ago

Yeah I'm seeing issues loading tweets too.

ChrisArchitect2y ago

Tell HN:

leesalminen2y ago

Came here for this.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse