pre-acquisition there were frequent Twitter outages. I remember one particular lengthy outage during my brief tenure as a moderator in the Twitter subreddit. I'll state the obvious but it's not entirely unexpected for complex systems to encounter failures.<p>example from 2021:<p><a href="https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-down-outage-1234953749/" rel="nofollow">https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-down-outage-12...</a>