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X: All Tweets Disappeared

by greenSunglass on 12/21/23, 6:36 AM with 21 comments

• by dragontamer on 12/21/23, 7:01 AM

  This is the 3rd time I've seen a topic on this subject. Need to start merging IMO:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717367

• by tamimio on 12/21/23, 6:40 AM

  Yeah I logged in for the first time in like a year and it seems nothing is there, thought my account was glitching..

• by 55555 on 12/21/23, 6:37 AM

  It’s been down for an hour, I think.

• by timonoko on 12/21/23, 7:04 AM

  It was like good old Twitter. New account usually lasted for week, and then it was locked. I was banned mostly because of Russophobia. Twitter did not like one particular picture from Winter War.

• by furyofantares on 12/21/23, 7:11 AM

  Dramatic headline for an outage.

• by tobase on 12/21/23, 6:50 AM

  Working now

• by VirusNewbie on 12/21/23, 6:40 AM

  I’m not surprised to see Twitter’s reliability get progressively worse.

  Overall, I think they could have reduced engineering staff in the long term by adopting mainstream open source technologies instead of their own custom (albeit also oss) database/filesystem/streaming system/rpc library/spark stack.

  But those migrations would have taken years. Instead, slashing staff that fast is likely to cause slow rot of their ad network, and overall system resiliency.