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'Brittle' Twitter suffers bad case of the Mondays: Links, pics, vids fail

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Re: I'm just asking...

The single best explanation I have ever heard, was actually from a botanist in the TV show "The Expanse".

I can't remember the exact quote, but essentially what he said was that complex systems don't fail outright. They deteriorate over time, small things breaking here and there because they cannot be maintained. Eventually those small issues start adding up, and eventually they will cascade, causing other parts to fail, which cascade further, until finally the whole thing crashes and burns.

I couldn't find the exact clip I was looking for but it's Season 2 Episode 10 "Cascade".

And that's exactly what we're seeing now with Twitter. Twitter is already dead. They just don't know it yet.

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