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Hah! I did something quite similar back in the day for text message notifications of server downtime.

The problem was that sometimes Twitter's messages were delayed by hours...

Does anyone remember the drama of failwhale and their Rails issues? Those were the times!

You mean when Michael Arrington used his popular meda outlet to assassinate Blaine Cook's job and reputation?

Heck, if you use Twitter a lot you've probably seen the return of the failwhale over the past several months: https://imgur.com/a/p6mYfIw

was thinking about the failwhale a few weeks back when github went down and was throwing angry pink unicorns. Different, pre-coronavirus times.