Account holders received a message saying: "You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets." For months experts have been warning that such deep cuts could cause technical issues, though it is not yet clear if the reduced headcount was to blame for Wednesday's outage.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64577731
Tag: outage
Spotify and Discord are back online after outages linked to Google Cloud
GitHub is back online after a two-hour outage
Microsoft-owned GitHub experienced a more than two-hour long outage today, affecting thousands or potentially millions of developers that rely on its many services. GitHub started experiencing issues at around 3:45PM ET, with Git operations, API requests, GitHub actions, packages, pages, and pull requests all affected.
GitHub is now home to more than 73 million developers that rely on the service for version control via Git and hosting for software development. GitHub is a large code repository that has become very popular with developers and companies hosting entire projects and code on the service. Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and many other big tech companies use GitHub.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/27/22805076/github-down-outage-service-issues
Roblox game played by the majority of US kids back after 3-day outage
One of the most popular mobile games, Roblox, is down. The company is showing “Service disruption” for every platform: iOS app, Android app, Xbox and Avatar.
Roblox dominates in the US.and UK, where 54% and 51% of kids play, respectively. In Spain, only 17% do. Instead, kids in Spain currently prefer Brawl Stars […]
In February 2020, this one game accounted for 81 minutes per day, on average […] During COVID-19 lockdowns, the kids who played Roblox increased their time spent in the game, up 31% [in the US].
https://9to5mac.com/2021/11/01/roblox-is-down-a-game-played-by-the-majority-of-us-kids/
Snapchat is back up, after users couldn’t post or send messages for hours
For a couple of hours on Wednesday morning, Snap Streaks were at risk as many users reported they couldn’t successfully post story updates or send messages on the service. In a tweet, the Snapchat Support Twitter account confirmed the issues, telling people to “hang tight, we’re looking into it!”
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/13/22724142/snapchat-down-outage-error-down-story-messages