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pre-acquisition there were frequent Twitter outages. I remember one particular lengthy outage during my brief tenure as a moderator in the Twitter subreddit. I'll state the obvious but it's not entirely unexpected for complex systems to encounter failures.

example from 2021:

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-down-outage-12...

ceejayoz · 6 months ago

Yes, it's certainly not unheard of; early Twitter featured the "failwhale" pretty regularly.

riffic · 6 months ago

I'm not talking about Early Twitter though. I specifically bring up an outage in an era with competent organizational ops or SRE capacity.

2021 was well beyond the growing pains in the "failwhale" period.

Hamuko · 6 months ago

There was a massive time period between the failwhale era and the acquisition. Like 15 years or a bit under?

madspindel · 6 months ago

He will trace the DDoS to Ukraine and shut down Starlink there.

33a · 6 months ago

BlueSky is still working great.

paulddraper · 6 months ago

It had a pretty massive outage on Feb 26 FWIW. And Feb 19.

I don't recall seeing it on HN though.

inzbieda · 6 months ago

Unfortunately I got banned on BS.

uxcolumbo · 6 months ago

Why?

reverendsteveii · 6 months ago

RussianDriveByMalware.exe has encountered an error and needs to close

Musk says it's DDoS. [1]

It's been in and out today.

[1] https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ky6zydYw5QPEfVKV4UT7j9-970...

fred_is_fred · 6 months ago

If Musk says it's DDOS then it's almost certainly not DDOS.

ElijahLynn · 6 months ago

I wouldn't have believed this a few years ago but I do now. If you sell your soul to the biggest liar on Earth, then you are complicit and probably have similar neurological patterns.

SketchySeaBeast · 6 months ago

"Tracing" a DDoS?

I wouldn't call it tracing, but the usual mitigation is block IPs.

Depending on the nature of the DDoS, you may block it at other parts of the stack.

Vixel · 6 months ago

Good.

thedudeabides5 · 6 months ago

DDoS?

vardump · 6 months ago

Seems like it. Page loads occasionally succeed.

ashoeafoot · 6 months ago

No Doge. Similar denial of servuce.

throw16180339 · 6 months ago

I expect Musk to blame Ukraine and use this as an excuse for sanctions against them.