I read that they only have 30 people maintaining the whole app. It must be difficult holding everything together with so few people, and probably insufficient redundancy with oncall.
I am not sure how that works at scale or how much money that burns, OR if this is even true, but a Rust monolith of this kind, where everything is a Black Box, could very will be maintained by 30 people.
That said, X is a complete dumpster fire where I want to pour Clorox into my eyes after 30 seconds.
I miss being plugged into a 24/7 feed of professional reporters, and at the same time - thank you, Elon, for fixing my addiction.
Why is there an expectation for social media services to have such high uptime? It's not an ISP or cloud provider, why does it matter if it goes down occasionally?
In my mind, it isn't about any specific expectation. Events like this are interesting because the cracks are starting to show when a company follows the "fire as many people as possible, run lean, integrate AI" strategy. The trend I'm seeing is that downtimes are becoming more common, which in turn does not speak well to that strategy.
Why are you complaining about the half hour of no air? Did you suffer some sort of brain damage? (<-- that's the joke. look up "hypoxia" if you didn't get it. Oh, and try not to get hypoxia.)
Selecting your own mute words for your timeline is the best part about Twitter. The algorithm changes have been pretty bad in the last few weeks though.
It's literally been one month since the last outage. This is getting ridiculous. Past Degradations
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Yes I was checking my tweets and suddenly it was down also in Youtube no video was playing.
I read that they only have 30 people maintaining the whole app. It must be difficult holding everything together with so few people, and probably insufficient redundancy with oncall.
Yes, the head of product dev recently bragged about only having 30 engineers.
From what I understand, they effectively rewrote all Scala/JVM/Python services to go through the xAI engine for their feed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8JOlCvA4Qs
I am not sure how that works at scale or how much money that burns, OR if this is even true, but a Rust monolith of this kind, where everything is a Black Box, could very will be maintained by 30 people.
That said, X is a complete dumpster fire where I want to pour Clorox into my eyes after 30 seconds.
I miss being plugged into a 24/7 feed of professional reporters, and at the same time - thank you, Elon, for fixing my addiction.
How may does GitHub have? its down far more than x.com
Why is there an expectation for social media services to have such high uptime? It's not an ISP or cloud provider, why does it matter if it goes down occasionally?
In my mind, it isn't about any specific expectation. Events like this are interesting because the cracks are starting to show when a company follows the "fire as many people as possible, run lean, integrate AI" strategy. The trend I'm seeing is that downtimes are becoming more common, which in turn does not speak well to that strategy.
Because many people (including high profile CEOs and VCs) are social media and X addicts. They spend literally all waking hours interacting with it.
Can confirm.
DownDetector showing widespread reports: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
Web/App aren't working. Updog also shows it's down. https://updog.ai/status/twitter
What's UpDog?
oh, didn't know about Updog. Thanks for linking it - i need this in my life.
Yes, why not go live in this guy's moon city, what could go wrong.
Hey, the uptime for oxygen is 99.9% this month
Why are you complaining about the half hour of no air? Did you suffer some sort of brain damage? (<-- that's the joke. look up "hypoxia" if you didn't get it. Oh, and try not to get hypoxia.)
Where does one go to complain that X is down when X itself is gone?
Grok will give solace and support. It assured me that I was not banned (yet).
Down for me, cant login, UK
Nice. I hope it stays down; we’d all be better off.
Speak for yourself.
I like it and I don't use it at all for politics.
Selecting your own mute words for your timeline is the best part about Twitter. The algorithm changes have been pretty bad in the last few weeks though.
Same here (SF Bay Area).
Time to fire some more engineers and replace them with Grok.
my usual first habit to check if it down is go to twitter.. now twitter is down.
It's literally been one month since the last outage. This is getting ridiculous. Past Degradations Provider Status Page 3mo Past 3 Months UTC+01:00 Jan 16, 2026 Duration 55m 4:10 pm - 5:05 pm resolved
Yup.
holy moly
Hallelujah?