[rococode]

Twitter is especially weird for this since it's often a platform where people talk about downtimes. I don't see this downtime mentioned on Reddit and I don't know of other sites where it might be discussed, so if Hacker News happened to go down at the same time, where would I go to talk about it with online strangers and find out if it's just me? Nowhere, I guess, I'd just wait it out with no extra insights on what's going on. A small reminder of what the world used to be like haha.

[52-6F-62]

This gets pretty rowdy:

https://downdetector.com/status/twitter

[jfk13]

For a simpler view of things, there's also https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com

[zymhan]

I do love that this site still exists years later. I still use it regularly. It only took me like three years to remember the name right the first time.

[georgehotelling]

reddit feels like it has about a 4 hour lag time on most "breaking" events.

[tgsovlerkhgsel]

This is the time it takes for news in major subreddits to gather enough votes on the "new" tab to make it to the main subreddit front page, then the actual front page.

Smaller subreddits seem to be less affected by this, which is why /r/toosoon (a subreddit dedicated to dark humor related to current events) is often surfaces news hours before other subs for people who have it in their subreddit list.

[jacobgreenleaf]

You could use the outages mailing list

https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages

https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2019-July/012527.h...

[hi5eyes]

it got brought up as quick as it did here

at least on r/twitter