I presume Elmo unplugged an important server since I can no longer sign into the Birdsite.

Not just me: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

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@chrismessina I can’t sign into twitter anymore either. but that’s because i’ve deactivated my account 🤷🏻‍♂️
@quinticben one way or another Elmo is determined to make all of us follow your example!
@chrismessina Gee, that's really too bad ;-)
@chrismessina Yep, I'm down now too. Was getting a lot of "people's timelines not populating" earlier.
@chrismessina On mobile it still works fine, but desktop web is completely borked and the login screen just shows a flashing loading circle
@samuelsh yup, that's what I'm seeing.
@chrismessina the lone SRE that’s left must be sweatin’ hard right about now
@chrismessina Works in third-party app for me. Not sure how.
@chrismessina Spent $44B on a house, stopped paying the heating bill, and the pipes froze.
@chrismessina It is insane that THIS might actually be true based on his own tweets…
@chrismessina @RcjWaz My account seems ok I just had a look
@chrismessina hang on, they’re just transferring all your data to the GRU

@chrismessina this is what happens when you shut down your only redundant datacenter on a site where the default "it's down" behavior is "hammer it harder!"

Surprised it took this long.

@chrismessina all good for me here in Australia via the web client but hearing of lots of folks struggling with logins or even posting a tweet or viewing a video in its entirety. Feel like it's a US API endpoint thing. But who knows what that "genius" is plotting today 😁
@chrismessina He probably needed to plug in his styling wand & there were no spare power sockets
@chrismessina could Elons Twitter be considered creative disruption?
@r9r ...or a disruptive creation? 🤔
@chrismessina 👀 Is Twitter becoming more resilient but not anti-fragile? Decision making becoming more centralized and seemingly arbitrary