In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time (2018)

[fernandotakai]

ah yes, the years when you would see the fail whale every other day.

i kind of miss the old twitter days -- less politics and more... fun?

[toast0]

The fail whale used to come out predictably 30 minutes into an outage where I was working (no coupling between the services, just users would tweet about us being down until Twitter fell over); but eventually Twitter was able to handle it, so we had to buckle down and fix our systems too.

[esrauch]

I only go to Twitter through links from here or reddit and I still get error pages pretty often.

[underseacables]

Could only handle “two popular” users at once, requiring manual traffic control. Slowing Twitter down might be something to consider again.

[phone[phone]]

Twitterāgō dēlenda est

[ksec]

I wonder with today's server / cloud resources, how far could Ruby Rails Scale on a twitter clone.

[LightG]

Could we bring that back, please?

[kryptk]

Your experience with social media largely depends on the accounts you surround yourself with.

I had an identical experience to yours on Facebook, but my Twitter accounts are carefully curated by topic and their timelines are generally excellent.

[tuxie_]

Mmmk.

[dominotw]

> my life improved substantially.

then Maybe it has something to do with you?