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Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis (theguardian.com)
8 points by wslh on May 25, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


It would be great to discuss what happened technically there. Is this the return of the never ending Twitter "fail whale" [1]? Or a real anomaly in the traffic pointing in favor of Ron DeSantis?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Outages


This kind of failure is not only predictable, but it happens every time hundreds of thousands of people try to join a Space. It's not able to handle the load and it never has been.


https://twitter.com/igb/status/1599259797404389382?lang=en

They fired the whole spaces team 6 months ago.


I was wrong actually, Twitter has had more successful Spaces with more users in the past that I just didn't notice. https://fortune.com/2023/05/24/twitter-almost-blew-big-ron-d... Your point explains why that might have bit-rotted though.




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