Re:Martin Fowler – Current thoughts on social media
by riffic on Thursday November 02, 2023 @07:19PM
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Twitter had a very prolonged outage around 2020/2021 before the Musk acquisition, and many more localized outages.
I moderated the Twitter subreddit at that time, I'd be happy to dig up outage threads (like this one! https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/msfyvs/is_twitter_..., coverage: https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-down-outage-12...)
Re:Martin Fowler – Current thoughts on social media
by sangnoir on Thursday November 02, 2023 @10:00PM
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My argument isn't that Twitter had 100% uptime: I consider outages to be on a different axes to general "bugginess" - which is why I stated that Twitter's status page mostly about service availability.
Twitter Spaces was buggy at times, but the core product had much better stability than it has now.
I call BS. Twitter was rock-solid for the approximately 8-year window bookmarked by retiring the failwhale and the disastrous Twitter Blue launch.
Twitter was the place people would go to complain about other platforms being down.I could rely on their availability dashboard, the UI was stable and there were no subsystem brownouts of the kind I'm seeing now (e.g. "Tweet not available" until you refresh several times)