Twitter has broken after seemingly being hit by an unusual bug.
“Unusual bug” is a polite way of describing Elon.
Peculiar Grub
The unusual date is seemingly a consequence of the so-called Unix epoch.
Did Y2038 come early?
I’ve already had to deal with Y2038 bugs about 15 years ago. Cookies in PHP couldn’t (and I think still can’t) be set with an expiration date beyond the end of Unix time.
They are using 31-bit signed integers.
It doesn’t seem to be broken. This article gave no screenshots, only a million ads, so I searched up reddit. Yeah, there’s some minor visual glitches. The dates have been epoch’d for some people.
It’s indicative of Twitter’s services slowly breaking down as the engineers left either don’t know how to manage everything or simply don’t have time to, but what else is new?
This article is pretty sensational for what is the continuing sad decline of an app which was probably a detriment to humanity overall, but which spawned some funny jokes and was occasionally a means of mass communication in times of crisis.
means of mass communication in times of crisis.
So many emergency and customer service accounts there. I didn’t need them so far but they surely would come in handy once I’d actually need them :(Also a good way to follow japanese based accounts since many either block non-domestic traffic/sales on their websites or are otherwise hard to get hold on as a foreigner for news/services.
It’s fine. It’s just Elon gnawing on wires in the basement of twitter HQ.
someone needs to make this in stable diffusion. a rat with elon’s face gnawing on wires.
God, I hope someone actually does this
Made these real quick
The top one isn’t a rat, but it’s perfect!
The mental image of this is hilarious. I picture them finally finding him, shining a flashlight in his face, and then he screeches and tunnels further under the floor.
I hear it was the South African Shitbeetle.
A shitbeetle’s gotta shit, Randy.
Elon needs to just admit to being the embodiment of the fail whale
Slowly killing the platform on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government going well.
Unusual bug: believing that you can run a company after firing 2/3 of the employees and because whoever remains has superpowers
I can’t wait to tie my entire financial life to X.
Guess no one remembers the fail whale
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Tracking website Down Detector saw a huge surge in reports of problems on Tuesday afternoon UK time.
Many computers do not count time in the usual way, but instead register it as the number of seconds that have amassed since 1 January 1970, which is called the Unix epoch.
But it also means that any problems with that code can lead to confusion, since they will often make it appear as if something happened 50 years ago.
Even users who could see those posts saw the tweets as empty or not showing properly, however, suggesting that the issue was more widespread than just a problem with the time.
Users also reported that retweets appeared to broken, showing instead as “RT” alongside the post they had tried to share.
The problems come almost exactly a year after Elon Musk bought Twitter, a deal that was closed on 27 October, 2022.
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You mean it wasn’t already?
It’s a feature, not a bug.
Elon is such a lolcow.
