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Re:Twitter API appears to be down, breaking Tweetbot and thi... by notimetorelax on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:54AM (#34364735)
Consider the quality of engineer of the departed team that allowed Twitter to run without incidents for so long. Also, change is the most frequent cause of incidents, as no one was pushing new changes there were fewer chances of an incident.
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Re:Twitter API appears to be down, breaking Tweetbot and thi... by vntok on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:03AM (#34365113)
Surely you're writing this in jest?

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/14/twitter-e...

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Re:Twitter API appears to be down, breaking Tweetbot and thi... by pcdoyle on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:23AM (#34365598)
Reading that article, I am actually impressed that after that 45-minute outage in 2022, the next major outage was all the way back in 2016. I would say that is actually quite an endorsement for the quality of engineers they had.
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