Steve Herman
At #Twitter: Jira went down, Slack's gone, and site performance is degraded. https://open.substack.com/pub/platformer/p/new-cracks-emerge-in-elon-musks-twitter
New cracks emerge in Elon Musk's Twitter

Jira went down, Slack's gone, and site performance is degraded. What's next?

Platformer
Feb 24, 2023 at 1:06amWeb
Show threadDefizit oder Eugen BrochierFeb 24, 2023
@w7voa
Haha
- developing without Jira - bad luck to all working at Twitter
- communicating without Slack - bad luck to all working at Twitter
Show threadaethervision Feb 24, 2023
@w7voa My guess is Jira went down first. From there on in, when something broke they’d tell an engineer who would insist that they can’t do anything about it until someone fills out a Jira ticket.
Show threadIt's Just Jenn 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 24, 2023
@aethervision @w7voa hah I was thinking the same thing! Hard to do a JIRA bug report about it when JIRA is what is down. 😂
Show threadaethervision Feb 24, 2023
@Tweetfiction @w7voa I was at a shop where marketing used one ticket tracking system and engineering used Jira and you’d get these great arguments between Project Managers about who had to enter the ticket first.
Show threadRobin from Colorado 🇺🇸🇺🇦Feb 24, 2023
@w7voa I just saw the weirdest coding error on my screen. Just a fragment of something about 3 inches long across the screen
Show threadFig Newtons Law 🐾Feb 24, 2023

@w7voa "Experiencing latency spikes when an account goes private."

Kind of a built in self-DDoS tool 😂

Show threadAmanda HugankissFeb 24, 2023
@w7voa Frankly, Twitter could be fired at the sun now, and I wouldn’t care. A pity, because I used to really like the place.
Show threadSpaceLifeFormFeb 24, 2023

@w7voa

That will stop the leaks. /s

Show threadBrian BrownFeb 24, 2023
@w7voa Does it seem like a *major vulnerability* that an organized campaign of many accounts repeatedly turning account privacy on and off can degrade Twitter performance? If Elon all by himself can materially impact site responsiveness by doing it to his, how many small to medium sized accounts would it take to bring it all down?
Show threadRob BosFeb 24, 2023
@w7voa moving to a self hosted mattermost, great idea. Botching the transition, not so much.
Show thread8lettersukFeb 24, 2023

@w7voa so basically a few large follower accounts switching from public to private and then back to public could bring the whole service down. Seems a bit sketchy.

"When a user takes their account private, Twitter’s systems have to go through every single tweet in the account’s history and mark them as private, before making those tweets visible to the private account’s followers.

That can be a data-intensive request for a large account"