Twitter has broken after seemingly being hit by an unusual bug.

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“Unusual bug” is a polite way of describing Elon.

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Peculiar Grub

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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.

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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.

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The unusual date is seemingly a consequence of the so-called Unix epoch.

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Did Y2038 come early?

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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.

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They are using 31-bit signed integers.

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It’s fine. It’s just Elon gnawing on wires in the basement of twitter HQ.

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someone needs to make this in stable diffusion. a rat with elon’s face gnawing on wires.

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God, I hope someone actually does this

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Made these real quick

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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.

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I hear it was the South African Shitbeetle.

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A shitbeetle’s gotta shit, Randy.

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