If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/10/15/twitter_down/
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But there are, seemingly, no tweets nor notifications. At all. All gone. All that anger and snark, and information and misinformation, wiped off the face of the planet, just like that.
Visiting your timeline or profile shows simply the message, "Something went wrong." It's otherwise empty. And earlier, people's notifications pages went blank, suggesting really, truly no one on Earth cares about your twitterings. "Nothing to see here," it states.
Reassuringly, you're not alone in your blank internet universe: Downdetector reports a [1]surge of complaints that Twitter isn't working properly, with the outage kicking off around 1430 PT (2130 UTC).
As your vulture types this, it appears some people can see their tweets, but cannot tweet. And some of us can't see anything. The Twitter status page [2]reports the team is "investigating irregularity" with the platform's APIs.
[3]
What one of our vultures saw as they tried to tweet or see other people's tweets
This IT breakdown comes within hours of American financial regulators [4]demanding Twitter be subject to harsher rules following the July hacks of prominent users' accounts – and soon after CEO Jack Dorsey furiously backpedaled after his website censored a [5]problematic article from a US newspaper.
A Supreme Court Justice this week also [6]mused that the likes of Twitter have gained sweeping immunity from the legal consequences of their users' content and actions, and that imbalance ought to be righted. ®
Updated to add at 2220 UTC
People's tweets are showing up again in timelines and profiles, though no one can send any new tweets nor view those that were able to be sent, if any, during the past hour or so. Notifications are also still AWOL.
Updated to add at 2300 UTC
And Twitter now appears to be back to normal, or rather, Twitter's idea of normal.
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[1] https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
[2] https://api.twitterstat.us/incidents/wsxhhcv26r9n
[3] https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/10/15/screenshot_failed_tweet.jpg
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/15/twitter_hack_report_new_york_post_censorship/
[5] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/giuliani-and-the-new-york-post-are-pushing-russian-disinformation-its-a-big-test-for-the-media/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/14/section_230_supreme_court_thomas/
[7] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
API
Time for a new definition.
API - All Platform Inoperable
"Nothing to see here,"
Well, it's Twitter. There never was anything to see.
"All tweets, notifications vanish"
And nothing of importance was lost
UTC?
We're still in BST for another couple of weeks...
Re: UTC?
Err, no. *U*TC is UTC, always, that's the point. Local time is irrelevant.
You can work out your local timezone offset from UTC easily, wherever you are. That's also another one of its points.
Re: UTC?
Who is "we", Kemosabe?
I was wondering why ...
... the usual clutch of Realtors sipping wine on The Plaza were frenetically fondling their phones instead of knocking back Realtor's Little Helper as they usually do at that hour.
does this mean
some sort of world peace may break out briefly ?
I had so much to say
Now all those who would potentially block me can't do so.
almost 0100UTC and still borked
At least here in Florida. I can see stuff, but I can't tweet. Not that it's a horrible thing.
Is it too much to ask?
That it couldn't have been down for a little longer?
Say, just to pick a random date, until November 3rd?
Twitter down
This is fine
I felt a great disturbance in the Force,
as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
But nope, it was just Twitter taking a s**tter. Definitely nothing terrible.
Got my hopes up
Checked for Trump tweets and they were there.