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Posted on 10/15/2020 3:30:25 PM PDT by madprof98
Twitter is experiencing an outage that began in the early evening on Thursday, with some users reporting problems sending tweets and refreshing their timelines starting shortly after 5:30PM ET. We have seen no new tweets cross our timelines since then, though we were able to find a tweet sent as late as 5:40PM ET using Twitter’s search tool.
User-generated reports on Downdetector.com are skyrocketing as well, but there’s no communication from the company itself as to the nature of the outrage. Twitter’s last major outage, occurring in February of this year, still allowed users to circumvent that outage by scheduling tweets. This does not appear to be a useable workaround right now.
(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...
I think they had to remove some of their algorithms that were nuking so many...and maybe a bit of mourning because they realize that the platform they hoped to use to stop Trump has become one of his biggest assets...
It’s not karma. Someone released a massive DoS attack on them. They finally pissed off the wrong hackers.
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The dreaded punch cards. You’d have a stack of 300 or so of them, drop in the college computer center. Wait about 3 hours for the bundled up printout (inkjet on the green-and white striped sprocket paper) only to find one of your cards was defective. Back to the keypunch machine, then drop the new stack and wait some more.
We were thrilled when they finally came out with the computer terminal for typing in programs. Of course, we immediately discovered pings and chats and computer games that ate up our time.
Are we losing our humanity to computers?
I was absorbed with and loved technology as it developed Mid 1970’s - Mid 1990’s. At some point it was no longer the fun thing I struggled to understand.
I still love good applied technology, but am frustrated with the maddening complexity that has come with it. There is no good reason for the complexity, it is there only because of bad motives that are incorporated in the code.
Oh, well. I’m trying to simplify my (our) lives now.
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