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Scripting News: Is Twitter down? (Scripting News)

  • Jack Dorsey · 2 years ago
    Dave,

    We had some database issues which unexpectedly took us down for a bit. We've identified the issue, and should be up and speedy again now.

    The @username linking is a bug we're working on fixing right now. Apologies for the inconvenience.
  • dave · 2 years ago
    Thanks for the update Jack, and glad to hear that the at-sign feature is coming back.
  • Robert 'Groby' Blum · 2 years ago
    Seems down for me, too. (L.A.) From a quick traceroute, it seems like their routers aren't responding. It's interesting that their packets are routed through a ton of L3 facilities before arriving, too.

    And it's been down since at least 4:30 - this doesn't bode well.
  • gerikson · 2 years ago
    It was down most of the afternoon here (CET).
  • Geoff · 2 years ago
    Twitter reminds me off the pre-google blogger.com years . Servers up and down all the time :-)
  • fanless · 2 years ago
    Yeah, and what was the name of the guy that started blogger...?
  • P.W. Fenton · 2 years ago
    I think eagerness to comment on the debates has brought it down.
  • Duncan · 2 years ago
    Complete down, as in cant even get a Twitter down page up at Twitter.com. Has been for the better part of 30 mins as I write this.
  • Rachel · 2 years ago
    http://twitter.com/twitter_status is usually pretty good at telling you things are broken, like the @ links
  • hardaway · 2 years ago
    It is certainly an integral part of my communications, and I get bummed when it goes down. Are you talking about something like what Pownce has? Pownce never appears to go down (although I hardly ever use it, so maybe I wouldn't know).
  • dave · 2 years ago
    What I was talking about was not like any of the existing systems because they are all centralized. It's not necessary, it's just easier. But centralization is vulnerable. The tradeoff is that if you have to install software on your desktop that's more for the user to worry about.
  • donpark · 2 years ago
    I've been thinking the same lately, sort of a p2p [almost] realtime feed network. hmm. fp2fp network?
  • dave · 2 years ago
    Wouldn't be hard to do, it';s basically what we had working in 2002 in Radio 8.
  • TDavid · 2 years ago
    Until the twitter crew gets this hyperlink bug fixed, and for Firefox users, I created a Firefox extension which will add the hyperlinks back on twitter.com, details here:
    http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071116/4946/
  • Dario Salvelli · 2 years ago
    The bug about @ there is again..i hope that will be fixed! ;)
  • gerikson · 2 years ago
    Re: the proposed Twitter replacement, how would you be able to update it on a mobile?
  • donpark · 2 years ago
    HTTP GET if available, otherwise use a feed-to-sms bridging service. Client's incapable of 'relaying' updates between feeds simply shouldn't but throwing Bluetooth and Wi-Fi subnet into the mix could be interesting.
  • Havagan · 2 years ago
    If you're running Greasemonkey in Firefox you can use a quick script to hyperlink all the @ values until twitter fixes the UI.

    (The below is taken from http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/13919 with just the URL modified)

    var regex = /@(\w*)/g;
    var elements = document.getElementsByTagName("span");
    for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
    var content = elements[i];
    var text = content.innerHTML;
    if (text.indexOf("@") < 0) {
    continue;
    }
    content.innerHTML = text.replace(regex, "@$1");
    }
  • Nick Johnson · 2 years ago
    I'm sure you could build something on feedtree (http://www.feedtree.net/) with little to no effort .
  • ethan kaplan · 2 years ago
    it was on CSI last night.

    Rails and network television != scaling? :)