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Not that I particularly like Elon but people are now making a big deal out of every twitter outage as if twitter didn't spend down half of the time before Elon bought it.



I dont remember Twitter being down so often before the takeover. I actually distinctly using Twitter to check if OTHER websites or services were down


Twitter had issues early on, but before Musk bought them they definitely did not have outages half the time.


No, definitely not half the time... a third tops.

I've become accustomed to the fact that it's beyond clear that pre-Musk engineers pushed changes to the servers live without testing them first, and didn't even bother doing an incremental roll-out either. Either they had no engineering culture, or that culture was gutted long before he arrived, because Twitter had problems with frightening regularity.


Every speed bump and hiccup of Twitter's outages since the acquisition is now magnified by the new standard expectation of 1000% uptime by the schadenfreude brigade.

Before it is all '#hugops' and 'best wishes to the engineers at Twitter' when it had downtime before the acquisition. But as you can see, they all love to hate it because a person called Elon R. Musk owns the blue bird site.

Just like when everyone here thought that Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp all collapsed and went down for hours it was declared as the 'end of times' the 'death of Meta', etc, with it's network effect still unaffected by that.

The same thing is happening for Twitter as even when it goes down, it's network effect of 220M+ users is still sitting there waiting for it to get back up.




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