Twitter was down
Ok, this is too many high-profile, apparently unrelated outages in the last month to be completely a coincidence.  Hypotheses:<p>1) software complexity is escalating over time, and logically will continue to until something makes it stop.  It has now reached the point where even large companies cannot maintain high reliability.<p>2) internet volume is continually increasing over time, and periodically we hit a point where there are just too many pieces required to make it work (until some change the infrastructure solves that).  We had such a point when dialup was no longer enough, and we solved that with fiber.  Now we have a chokepoint somewhere else in the system, and it will require a different infrastructure change<p>3) Russia or China or Iran or somebody is f*(#ing with us, to see what they are able to break if they needed to, if they need to apply leverage to, for example, get sanctions lifted<p>4) Just a series of unconnected errors at big companies<p>5) Other possibilities?