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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by zamfi on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:09PM (#22998883)
Hah! I did something quite similar back in the day for text message notifications of server downtime.

The problem was that sometimes Twitter's messages were delayed by hours...

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by bnt on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:39PM (#22999182)
Does anyone remember the drama of failwhale and their Rails issues? Those were the times!
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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by rhizome on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @01:30PM (#23009449)
You mean when Michael Arrington used his popular meda outlet to assassinate Blaine Cook's job and reputation?

https://techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/amateur-hour-over-at-twitt...

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by rhizome on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:42PM (#23012464)
Heck, if you use Twitter a lot you've probably seen the return of the failwhale over the past several months: https://imgur.com/a/p6mYfIw
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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by ChrisArchitect on Monday April 27, 2020 @04:12PM (#22999511)
was thinking about the failwhale a few weeks back when github went down and was throwing angry pink unicorns. Different, pre-coronavirus times.
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