@realcaseyrollins no, it didn't. it had multi-hour fail-whale glitches in its early days, then people like @dpp helped them rewrite it and build an extraordinarily scalable and resilient infrastructure.

for the six years prior to Musk's purchase of the site, major outages were extraordinarily infrequent. in July of 2022 (pre-Musk), a 45 min outage was the longest in years. it's last multihour outage had been in 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/14/twitter-experiences-longest-global-outage-in-years

post Musk, it's gotten substantially worse.