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Comment by Mizoguchi | Hacker News Reader

This kind of stuff is unavoidable with what's going on at Twitter. Infrastructure changes, platform changes and mass layoffs all at once. I'm actually impressed they haven't experienced more and longer outages.

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Its a testament to how well designed and implemented the code base is, if the wheels havent started falling off yet (shockingly). I know we’re all supposed to shit on Twitter, but they had world class engineers working there before the mass layoffs and brain drain.

I can easily visualize a wooden wagon rolling along a rocky slow descent forever and all of the reasons its wheels would eventually break loose.

In the case of a platform like Twitter, aside from random acts of god and weather, aside from money, what are the sort of stuff that slowly breaks its wheels off over time such that, without staff, it inevitably stops working completely?

The ostensible cause for the rate limiting was “excessive scraping”. Battling stuff like this or e.g. spam bots is a constant arms race. So, without staff, the bad actors will eventually win.

True, the rate of improvements has been insane. I use it pretty often and haven't even noticed a second of unavailability even today and right now, not to say I use it 24/7 though. It's pretty obvious some people have a political bend to their hatred of Twitter so any second something isn't perfect they jump on it. It's really a sad state of affairs really.

This is absolutely preposterous. Any casual user of the service can rattle off a dozen failing elements going back for months.

> a second of unavailability

Being unable to look at anyone's tweets doesn't count as unavailability to you?

Political bent?

Can't I just think Elon Musk is a twat without it being somehow political?

No, because considering anyone a twat is inherently a (small-p) political judgement.

It's been unusable all day.

As if your delusional denial of reality wasn't totally political.

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