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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by dgrin91 on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:12PM (#36912640)
> The next time Twitter goes down, and it will any day now

People have been saying this since the day Elon took over... but has it really gone down that much? More than other tech products? E.g. how many outages have the big cloud providers had in the last year? When I hear people say 'any day now' it reads like they are looking for any excuse to say 'mars man bad'.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by AlexandrB on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:23PM (#36912778)
I don't know about outages, but Twitter's website has become completely erratic for me. Sometime it will load replies, sometimes it won't. Sometimes it will login-wall content, sometimes it won't. Sometimes I just get an error page. Clicking on a Twitter link today is like rolling the dice on whether you'll actually see anything or not.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by bottlepalm on Friday July 28, 2023 @06:41PM (#36914359)
You should check your internet connection. It's much more likely that it's you who are having problems.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by atorodius on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:57PM (#36913219)
I think the parent was referring to this rather massive and long outage very recently:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/01/tech/twitter-rate-limit-excee...

rather than cloud providers it would probably be more useful to compare to eg Instagram or TikTok

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by hcurtiss on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:12PM (#36913388)
I wouldn't style that an outage. I'm not sure what regular users that affected, but it could not have been very many.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by etchalon on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:32PM (#36914819)
The problem is that it was high-volume users who were impacted.

And high-volume users are who create content for the site.

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