Seems like lately we've gone from "when you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra" to "if you see a horse, it's definitely a centaur."
Interestingly, if you go on the search page and search something, it shows the post just fine, even if you click on it. But if you then reload the page, it doesn't work
Crazy thought: if there was to be a major event (say a Russian invasion of Ukraine) would taking down Twitter, which seems to have a high proportion of journalists and politicians on it, not be a smart move? The few hours of confusion it would buy might be valuable.
It’s most likely just a run-of-the-mill outage, but the thought crossed my mind.
I remember back in 2014, just before annexing Crimea, Russian operatives managed to shut off the power to the Ukrainian army's headquarters in Crimea, leading to a lot of confusion and inability to communicate (they had to use mobile phones). I think what's more likely, and more useful, is to somehow isolate Ukraine itself from the rest of the world (instead of just Twitter), so that the news of the invasion could not spread outside. Although in either case you still can't do much about satellite images.
Twitter's popularity in many places isn't nearly the same as in the anglo-speaking world, though I don't know the stats for the countries in your example. I'd say if internet access just got spotty in those areas, that would certainly benefit any kind of panic that might happen.
How is Russia invading Ukraine would take down Twitter? Does Twitter keep their DCs in Luhansk? I was speaking in context of significant ongoing global developments
Also seeing it here in Japan and has been reported by my coworkers across multiple continents. The twitter.com site is also broken; not accepting cookied sessions nor logins.
Also experiencing issues. Weirdly on mobile I'm still getting like/RT/reply notifications but I can't actually open and load the tweet I'm getting notifications on.
Edit: What's weird/unexpected is I just got a "twitter is better on the app" popup...ON the app? I'm not even sure how that would be possible, does the twitter webapp/mobile app share that much code?
Twitter is so weird. They have a big technical staff but they never, ever launch features, leading people to believe all the work is being done on reliability and efficiency on the backend, but at the same time they have total outages regularly and don't turn profits.
NE U.S. here, cannot reproduce any of this at all. App and browser are fine, cleared cache and cookies, can still log in, search, everything. A regular quantity of new tweets keep appearing.
> Due to deployment issues the Lost Ark launch is unfortunately delayed. We hope to have this resolved in a matter of hours, and we appreciate your patience. [...]
Off-topic, but what a bland and generic MMORPG. Is there any unique selling point for the game at all?
>Is there any unique selling point for the game at all?
Fluid combat + isometric view. Basically plays like Diablo/POE but without the loot bloat (instead you get the random gear progression). And the underlying mechanics are akin to any other theme park MMO.
Tbh it's a pretty fun game as long as you don't care about competing for the top spots with the pay-to-progress elements
edit: found it on Twitter search thanks to another comment
> Between two possible explanations for an event, prefer the more boring one.