Twitter down?
Is it just me, or twitter seems down/unresponsive
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I swear, the way people panic when it drops off, Twitter is way more like a protocol than a website. It's like someone saying "Email is broken... Everywhere".
We've reached a dangerous point. Everybody in the world joining the internet combined with a lack of knowledge about how things work means the unwashed masses gravitate towards centralized services. Instead of building distributed competitive services on top of a distributed fault-tolerant bi-directional network, we have rampant mass centralization. Protocols and interoperability are dead.
We can now almost legitimately say "The Internet is down!" when AWS goes tits up. People can't get news from their favorite boy bands when mysql hoses twitter (for the 7,000th time).
I forgot my point. Anyway, go read http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked...
We can now almost legitimately say "The Internet is down!" when AWS goes tits up. People can't get news from their favorite boy bands when mysql hoses twitter (for the 7,000th time).
I forgot my point. Anyway, go read http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked...
I think Twitter is more like a protocol than a website; and frankly it's too important at this point to be left in the hands of Twitter Inc. I'd love to see a serious discussion about making it a community-owned standard on the same level with TCP/IP or SMTP. But I guess that could never happen in a free-enterprise-obsessed world -- unless, perhaps, Twitter proved itself to be such a bad steward that its users demanded some kind of "nationalization."
A decentralized twitter clone wouldn't be that hard; just mimic Email with subscriptions. The hard part is getting adoption.
> I think Twitter is more like a protocol than a website; and frankly it's too important at this point to be left in the hands of Twitter Inc.
Yeah, what we really need is the same people who run the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Post Office to take it away from the filthy profit-seekers who created it.
THAT will improve uptime AND innovation.
Yeah, what we really need is the same people who run the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Post Office to take it away from the filthy profit-seekers who created it.
THAT will improve uptime AND innovation.
I believe app.net was recently pivoted to create this sort of a thing.
No panic, just having converstation about it! :) I think we can see it more like a service.
I'm just having fun! And dealing with my own PANIC in my own way.
Seriously though, think how dependent a lot of people are on Twitter. I'm not just talking about us nerds who like tweeting links about CSS hacks, or the people who like to take photos of their food.
Here in the UK train companies use it to put out information on service status. News networks use it as their primary means of connecting with the audience. Hell, I have several friends who seem to conduct their entire relationship via Twitter. It's also become the go-to method of communication for people who want to get a message to companies.
Whether or not this is overkill, that's for individuals to decide. But I'm 100% sure that Twitter has outgrown itself.
Seriously though, think how dependent a lot of people are on Twitter. I'm not just talking about us nerds who like tweeting links about CSS hacks, or the people who like to take photos of their food.
Here in the UK train companies use it to put out information on service status. News networks use it as their primary means of connecting with the audience. Hell, I have several friends who seem to conduct their entire relationship via Twitter. It's also become the go-to method of communication for people who want to get a message to companies.
Whether or not this is overkill, that's for individuals to decide. But I'm 100% sure that Twitter has outgrown itself.
What's the point of a status subdomain if it doesn't contain the current status? http://status.twitter.com/
Because these pages tend to be highly curated and manually updated; they don't actually give a live perspective of actual service outages. If they were actual automated status pages, we'd learn how often a service really does go down for 2-3 minutes at a time while no one really notices.
I guess the main reason is to have the status page separate so it can truly monitor the twitter service.
Its just been updated with an event... better late than never.
Not just you: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter.com
wasn't aware there was a site just for that, oh the web!
thanks.
https://dev.twitter.com/status is a little more informative
I don't think there should be a HN submission every time Twitter/Google Talk/AWS has a short outage and I find this submission in particular to be of low value - that's why I flagged it.
http://just-ping.com is losing packets from some places but not others. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4NmQa1UbwBCTWMtX2dsSUZwVnM
12:11PM EDST:
Twitter is currently down for <%= reason %>.
We expect to be back in <%= deadline %>. For more information, check out Twitter Status. Thanks for your patience!
Twitter is currently down for <%= reason %>.
We expect to be back in <%= deadline %>. For more information, check out Twitter Status. Thanks for your patience!
http://mobile.twitter.com/ works for me.
Bounces me to a Sign Up (not Sign In) page.
403 Forbidden (Rate Limit Exceeded)
https://mobile.twitter.com is working
It looks Twitter is currently inaccessible. I can't reach it and neither could this site checker - http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.twitter.com
Not accessible from mobile or web. Hand raised for being "that guy" who tried to check on whether Twitter was down, by going to Twitter.com.
Dude I checked web, mobile and API.
Whenever in doubt, just use - http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
don't really believe this - It's not just you! http://google.com looks down from here.
Irony of fate. Just wanted to tell my friends about it - (booom!) - HOW?! There are all in twitter =/
At least Google Talk is back up.
I'm seeing this. http://cl.ly/IMLf
Only for several minutes. What a fast respond!
twitter.com does resolve... it is just unreachable. Still nothing on status.twitter.com
http://status.twitter.com/ is now reporting problems and that engineers are looking into it.
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Yea... its down
I get HTTP 500
Fail whale =/
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Down!
down :(
Got the urge to tweet that twitter is down D: