> Twitter is under scrutiny more now than ever. If so much as an icon doesn’t load first attempt then people can it form or broken.
It's difficult for me to point out concrete statistics to refute this because Twitter's current monitoring of disruptions/outages/whatever is fairly abysmal, and Musk has started transparently misrepresenting/lying about them. Unfortunately this means that much of the reporting/monitoring that we're getting is only second hand. But this strikes me as wishful thinking; frankly I don't believe that pre-Musk Twitter had this number of issues.
Is it possible that there's increased scrutiny, so more people are reporting problems on Down Detector? I guess, it's not impossible. But again, this gets back to what I was mentioning above -- we shouldn't have to rely on Down Detector for numbers, but we do because Twitter has basically completely abandoned self-reporting its own stats.
I can't completely disprove or dismiss the theory that users are just reporting issues more often now, but I don't think it's the most likely explanation available, and I don't see a ton of evidence to back it up -- the simpler explanation is that people are reporting more issues because there are more issues.
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Secondly, I do think we are squabbling over words. It is still the case that if you define "outage" as a worldwide global site unavailability, the majority of the previous links listed above as evidence that this is nothing new don't quality as outages.
We've shifted from saying, "Twitter had outages in the past, this is nothing new" to "okay, the stuff happening now isn't an outage (but somehow the past events still count)", to "actually, things were much worse in the past than you remember and you just never noticed."
But... again, I just don't buy it. Look, 10 minutes of downtime is not the same thing as the private API going down across a substantial portion of the US for an entire day (at least a day, we still don't know for sure if the problem is fully fixed because, again, communication is nonexistent).
Twitter went down for an hour pre-Musk and the media reported it as the worst outage the site had suffered since 2016. Like... come on, it's obvious the site is having issues more frequently than it used to. My opinion of Musk is irrelevant to that observation, the guy could be a saint, and it's still obvious that the site is less stable.
It's difficult for me to point out concrete statistics to refute this because Twitter's current monitoring of disruptions/outages/whatever is fairly abysmal, and Musk has started transparently misrepresenting/lying about them. Unfortunately this means that much of the reporting/monitoring that we're getting is only second hand. But this strikes me as wishful thinking; frankly I don't believe that pre-Musk Twitter had this number of issues.
Is it possible that there's increased scrutiny, so more people are reporting problems on Down Detector? I guess, it's not impossible. But again, this gets back to what I was mentioning above -- we shouldn't have to rely on Down Detector for numbers, but we do because Twitter has basically completely abandoned self-reporting its own stats.
I can't completely disprove or dismiss the theory that users are just reporting issues more often now, but I don't think it's the most likely explanation available, and I don't see a ton of evidence to back it up -- the simpler explanation is that people are reporting more issues because there are more issues.
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Secondly, I do think we are squabbling over words. It is still the case that if you define "outage" as a worldwide global site unavailability, the majority of the previous links listed above as evidence that this is nothing new don't quality as outages.
We've shifted from saying, "Twitter had outages in the past, this is nothing new" to "okay, the stuff happening now isn't an outage (but somehow the past events still count)", to "actually, things were much worse in the past than you remember and you just never noticed."
But... again, I just don't buy it. Look, 10 minutes of downtime is not the same thing as the private API going down across a substantial portion of the US for an entire day (at least a day, we still don't know for sure if the problem is fully fixed because, again, communication is nonexistent).
Twitter went down for an hour pre-Musk and the media reported it as the worst outage the site had suffered since 2016. Like... come on, it's obvious the site is having issues more frequently than it used to. My opinion of Musk is irrelevant to that observation, the guy could be a saint, and it's still obvious that the site is less stable.