Threads also appears to be a dud.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    The decline was inevitable. What did surprise me, and is I guess a sign of ex-Twitter engineer competence, is that the platform did not succumb to entropy weeks after the first wave of mass layoffs. I expected events like “Twitter down for days because team responsible for renewing SSL certificates no longer exists” or “posting new tweets takes hours because the DBA team was decimated and no one remembered to repartition the tables”.

    • @nucleative
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      61 year ago

      It is a surprise, especially given the unplanned data center moves and micro-services debacle. I can imagine there were a lot of frantic phone calls from current Twitter engineers to former Twitter engineers begging for help at various points along the way. I wonder if any of the ex-engineers required expensive pre-paid consulting contracts before offering any assistance!

    • @joneskind
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      51 year ago

      Twitter’s front end is not the only product that can break.

      For instance analytics and ad servers can break without the end user even noticing it. Drop in revenues could be the results of a miscalculation, a corrupted database or anything.

      There are so much ways of going wrong that we wouldn’t know about.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Oh for sure, and there were a couple of noticable incidents where partial functionality broke, like SMS 2FA. But I was expecting more pervasive problems - a Hindenburg vs a gradual descent into senility.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      I do agree with you that it’s been more stable than I expected, but it’s not like everything’s been fine. They’ve throttled usage a few times, there was that weekend where they pretty much just shut down. Although lately it’s been a bit better, there were a few weeks there where I couldn’t get twitter links to work more than a third of the time, and videos are still iffy. Plus, we don’t have visibility into all of their operations. I’d have no way of knowing if Twitter Japan was down for twenty minutes on Wednesday. Most people just retry, and small outages are forgot to g about by everyone except the ops center.