Twitter Glitches Pile Up as Key Features Fail

Many users said they could not post tweets or message one another on Wednesday as the #TwitterDown hashtag began trending.

@scottjshapiro completely unforeseeable
@scottjshapiro We, economists, on the other hand, have predicted twenty of the last eight Twitter shutdowns
@scottjshapiro so the “over your daily tweet limit” error that we kept getting was just a preview for non-subscribing users, right?
@scottjshapiro tech debt goes away if you ignore it long enough
@scottjshapiro Surely firing another 20-30% of engineers will solve the problem.
GOP lawmakers allege Big Tech conspiracy, even as ex-Twitter employees rebut them

A hearing about Elon Musk’s « Twitter Files » will fan allegations that Democrats pressure Silicon Valley to censor conservative views.

The Washington Post
‘Wouldn’t wish that pain on anyone’: Elon Musk confides of toll from working morning, day and night to run Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX

The entrepreneur admitted he was worried about himself after revealing on Twitter that staving off bankruptcy is having an effect on his 51-year-old body.

Fortune
@scottjshapiro Genuinely baffled that people are still on Twitter
@arg11 @scottjshapiro To many links to Twitter and too many businesses and media there and not here.
@scottjshapiro And Lauren Boebert sees a conspiracy in all this...
@scottjshapiro "Glitch" is a euphemism for software engineering malpractice.