[thrdbndndn]

Twitter ran pretty bad even before Musk though.

As a Twitter addict, I can remember at least 5 times total outages within 2 years before Musk took over.

There are also some serious privacy accidents that surprisingly never got any attention in Western.

For example, about 3 years ago, Twitter bugged that everyone's private lists (titles, descriptions) are publicly visible for at least half a day. It was a huge shit storm in Japanese communities but I can't find any article mentioning it in English media.

[oneeyedpigeon]

It's difficult to judge based solely on experience, but it's definitely felt worse to me recently. I don't remember having so many problems with basic functionality before — things like tweets showing up in one place and not others. Tbh, many of the problems seem to be related to poor cache management.

[sillysaurusx]

Well, hopefully they stop breaking “the entire reason people come to twitter”. At least when tweeting broke last week we could still scroll the timeline.

Thanks for pointing out that privacy blunder. I hadn’t heard of that. It’s interesting that stories like that end up spreading in the east but not in the west.

How long were those 5 total outages? I wonder if this one will be average.

[thrdbndndn]

Total outage usually didn't last long, I believe there was at least one that's more than one hour.

What is more annoying is Twitter sometimes had highly disruptive bugs that often take much longer time to fix.

About half a year ago, there was a timeline bug that Twitter will constantly showing you three random tweets repeatedly after every refresh. It took them days to fix it.

[pwb25]

yep, and as long as I can remember the notifications has been super laggy. sometimes shown as 12, you go there and it might be 2

or nothing