They deteriorate piece-by-piece, potentially over the course of many months, until the compounding effects of these problems and the growing technical debt overwhelms the team that they have left.
- Outages really are common: https://twitter.com/altluu/status/1577806809217503232
The twitter post you linked to was from October of last year; I'm not sure how to draw any conclusions from it.
I'd consider that deteriorated service.
also just out of curiosity while trying to find historical outage data I found this article.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/14/twitter-e...
Last july (before elon took over), the site was apparently down for 45 minutes and "one of the site’s longest outages for years". Today it's been basically barely usable for most of the day.
It's hard to find nuance and information anymore. It's as if all we have to work with is politics and hatred.