My guess is that databases are being moved between locations so that essential data is temporarily missing, at different times depending on the viewer’s location.

I saw TikTok back online as of 9 a.m. ET, and other reports suggest outages peaked around 5 a.m. All of that points to a server migration that was larger than usual and didn’t go exactly to plan.

The algorithm on TikTok has been pretty well broken for five days. For anyone who hasn’t heard, the same quality of content can be found at @skylight.social, without the risks.

These major system changes often take place with installations starting at 12 a.m. Sunday in California because that is the slowest time in the global Internet.

The feeling on the current X is not at all like the ghost town that Myspace turned into in its final months. X is more post-apocalyptic, with lots of interesting relics from the distant past, but basically everything has been destroyed.

There is no content on X. The most important features from Twitter are removed. No more DMs or groups. In my feed there was only one post from the hundreds of accounts I follow. It was The Beatles, just saying that the Beatles can now be found on Snap.

It forced me to change my password, then asked me why I had requested a password change. Things did not get better once I was in. I would click a button for one action and it took me to a page for a completely different action because of something like a server overflow error.

First it was hard to sign in. My first login attempt because a server crashed. The second attempt required 10 minutes of verifications because the platform flagged my failed first login attempt as suspicious activity.

By all indications, the YouTube failures are the result of technical changes meant to boost midroll ad placements, so fixes will come within months. Until then, YouTube is reducing the number of advertising impressions by turning viewers away.