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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by frenchman99 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:41AM (#37532799)
I have noticed absolutely no difference with Twitter/X. I am a casual user, sure, but for me it seems to work well.
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by andrewinardeer on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:08AM (#37532930)
There was a bit of downtime and some bugs did make it into their prod env after the restructure. These bugs were rectified fairly quickly too.

I generally agree with you on your comment. I am a casual user of X these days and the site seems to be humming along without any user facing engineering issues.

With his products such as Tesla, X and Starlink touching millions of people daily Elon is an easy to reach punching bag.

Even if he is somehow instrumental in solving the massive feat of putting humans safely on Mars there will always be people on the side lines having shots at him.

Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by rpastuszak on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:13AM (#37532959)
Anecdata for sure, but I use Twitter every day and features such as video upload just stopped working for me (failing silently), not to mention the site crashing or becoming completely unresponsive every week or so.
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by Marazan on Saturday September 16, 2023 @06:55AM (#37533686)
The entire multi-media infrastructure at Twitter is visibly creaking.
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by majani on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:34AM (#37533038)
Funny enough, where I've noticed the most bugs is in the ad buying process. They want an active account (which many corporate accounts wouldn't qualify as), then they want you to be a Twitter Blue member(which requires a verified phone number), then my company's phone number wasn't accepted. I gave up after that
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by iLoveOncall on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:37AM (#37533052)
I'm not even a casual user, I just go there when a friend sends me a funny tweet or an article point to one, and even I have noticed major bugs like comments not loading or other functionalities not working.
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by NavinF on Saturday September 16, 2023 @05:23AM (#37533282)
That's not a bug. If you're not logged in or your account looks like a bot, you can't see comments
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by anonzzzies on Saturday September 16, 2023 @07:08AM (#37533743)
> your account looks like a bot

That's not a bot if you are not a bot? I know it's 'normal', but I still it as a bug. AI classifying me as something I not is a bug.

Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by NavinF on Saturday September 16, 2023 @08:08AM (#37534109)
Depends on the account. Eg if you look at unfiltered YouTube comments on youtube studio, you'll find many humans that behave like bots and post link to their videos in unrelated discussions
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by egman_ekki on Saturday September 16, 2023 @08:09AM (#37534116)
That’s exactly what a bot would say.
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by anonzzzies on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:23AM (#37542077)
Doesn’t make blocking innocent accounts automatically less of a bug.
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by Marazan on Saturday September 16, 2023 @06:53AM (#37533680)
Media loading is dog slow these days. 10+ second waits for images in tweets to load.

That's the most directly obvious thing that has happened post takeover.

Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by renegade-otter on Saturday September 16, 2023 @06:58AM (#37533696)
We don't know how that relates to the traffic. If the load caved, you need less capacity to handle it. The DeSantis launch campaign was a complete disaster, and only recovered mid-stream when 2/3 of the users left.

There is a case to be made that Twitter would have been profitable if it didn't torch money on unnecessary complexity, but the crashing ad revenue suggests Musk is not the business genius that you might expect.