No, they happened. They didn't last a double digit number of hours though.

Not gonna say in decades, but in the past decade for sure.

Nobody said "absolutely no outages happened [..] for decades" and the fact that they did doesn't refute what you're replying to.

You're not being downvoted for not being irrationally angry at Musk. You're being downvoted for being disingenuous in a very obvious way and then pretending the downvotes prove you right.

I feel that my downvote won’t accurately express my dislike of this comment, so to provide a further explanation: you’re making absolutely zero effort to engage with this conversation. You’ve completely fabricated a point of view to oppose. Nobody here can be construed as being on the opposing side of “things have downtime sometimes”. I’ve every right to believe that you’re an Elon Musk fanboy because your reaction seems incredibly emotionally driven.

If anything is emotionally driven, it's your reply.

I am also interested to know if outages happened before or is a recent phenomenon. I don't have a stake for electric car space man, or furiously despise him for god knows what as per above.

> simple question really shows the irrationality and emotive reaction about anything Twitter because of Elon Musk

I think you're right here, just not in the way you intended. Because this is not a reasonable standard to use:

> So absolutely no outages happened before Musk took over in the past decade then?

Twitter used to be extremely unreliable, and in fact back on the late noughties this was commonly seen as a reason that Twitter was doomed and would be replaced by other microblogging platforms (there was precedent; a number of early social media sites had already died essentially due to unreliability).

Eventually, it became fairly rock solid, and has stayed like that since. A reversion to "oh, yeah, essential features are down for hours, that's just Twitter being Twitter" definitely feels like going back to the noughties.