Twitter Outage Hits Thousands, Downdetector Reports (bloomberg.com) 46
Twitter faced a brief outage on Thursday, leaving thousands of users without service for about an hour. From a report: At the peak, at 8:20 a.m. in New York, 54,582 users reported problems on Downdetector.com, an outage tracking platform. Twitter's website displayed an error message and prompted users to reload the page. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the outage. A message on Twitter's support account posted at 9:10 a.m. said: "Some of you are having issues accessing Twitter and we're working to get it back up and running for everyone. Thanks for sticking with us." By 9:16 a.m., about 1,600 users reported they were still having trouble. The last time Twitter faced an outage was in February, when the site crashed due to a "technical bug" on the page. In its early days, Twitter was famous for crashing amid high traffic, leading to the iconic "fail whale" image that popped up when service was down.
Can it stay down please? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Can it stay down please? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, you're using a pretty loose definition of "news" there...
I actually misread the headline at first..thinking it said "Twitter Outrage Hits Thousands", and It struck me odd we'd have a slashdot headline about business as usual at twitter...?!?!?
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Well, you're using a pretty loose definition of "news" there...
LOL, Wrong.
Its the new modern AP wire, anyone who thinks otherwise is just deluding themselves.
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That statement explains a lot about the quality of AP news lately...
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That statement explains a lot about the quality of AP news lately...
INDEED! NOTICE I DIDNT SAY IT WAS A GOOD TREND!
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Well, from the latest word coming out of the Musk attempted purchase.
As far as twitter being a news source, I guess it is mostly for "bots" perhaps....?
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Well, you're using a pretty loose definition of "news" there... ;)
Seems to work for, at least, one of the mainstream "News" companies ... :-)
Re:Can it stay down please? (Score:4, Informative)
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Spindoctors and censors never need any time, because making up what you want people to believe is a quick process. It's truth that takes time. âoeA lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.â
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It doesn't really serve any purpose. It's just like an IRC channel with everyone on ignore by default
It's even more like IRC in that most of the users are bots.
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It's outage does give the Truthers something new to ReTruth about.
As if a million voices cried out... (Score:5, Funny)
and suddenly we didn't hear it because they couldn't get on to Twitter to complain that Twitter was down
...and nothing of value was lost (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh the humanity! (Score:3)
A few hours without social media, Qanon, RealDonaldTrump, conspiracy theories and my best friends' bowel movememts diaries... Say it isn't so!
This may very well ruin everybody's lives forever... Well worth a /. article!
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Oh, Twitter has been without Trump for a while now. And we've all been incrementally better off because of it.
It's a small increment, but an increment still the same.
Re:Oh the humanity! (Score:4, Insightful)
Just because a fly has been swatted off a turd doesn't make the turd more attractive.
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To a dung bettle it is.
A small glimpse of sanity (Score:1)
As soon as the servers come back up, society will go back down once again.
Bots activated (Score:2)
Thousands? (Score:2)
Do they even have that many users? There's been a debate lately...
GenX was trending... (Score:2)
...and killed the Twitter star.
Boohoo (Score:1)
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Fuckup (Score:2)
I have a screenshot of certificate mismatches.
I'll call this a fuckup because a compromise would take longer to recover from.
It looks like they hit the killswitch rather than letting people error out everywhere. Things like HSTS Disasters are always looming.
Oh, well, shit happens. AWS has more downtime so somebody is doing something right on four nines.
Fail Whale (Score:3)
I think Fail Whale should be Elon Musk's new nickname, since crashing Twitter seems to be his current obsession.
How many ... (Score:2)
Giggle (Score:3)
Hey guys, I just registered a new twitter handle for little bobby tables. He's @Bobby';DELETE FROM USERS WHERE isBot=1;--
IDK why it's not working.
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I think you need to take out the WHERE part, it will work much better then.
i didn't notice (Score:2)
Did anyone else notice ? (Score:1)
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Oh, no! (Score:4, Funny)
Did Musk perform DDOS to drive the price down? (Score:2)