The Filings

Selected findings, postmortems, and quarterly letters.

A reading room of the firm's published work. Filings are issued under the Breckinmoor Charter and remain on the public record regardless of subsequent platform admissions, retractions, or quiet rebadgings.

Q2 2026Filed 19 Jun

State of the Platforms — Mid-Year Letter

The aggregate reliability of the fourteen platforms under observation declined 1.4 points year-on-year, while aggregate uptime claims improved by 0.2 points. The gap, in plain English, is the size of the press department.

Quarterly Letter Annual Review
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11 MayFiled 14 May

Discrepancy Filing 26-A: Meta Platforms, Inc.

Comparison of stated 99.95% uptime to observed regional degradation across WhatsApp Business API between 09 and 11 May. The platform's own status page recorded "No incidents" for the period under review.

Discrepancy WhatsApp
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22 AprFiled 25 Apr

On the Quiet Deprecation of Three (3) Twitter APIs

A reconstruction of the v1.1, v2, and OEmbed endpoint retractions between January 2023 and April 2026, none of which were accompanied by the operator's standard ninety-day notice.

Roadmap Audit X
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02 MarFiled 06 Mar

Postmortem: The Cloudflare Edge Outage of 02 March

Independent reconstruction of the 47-minute partial outage affecting downstream Meta, X, and Shopify properties. Where the operator's postmortem omitted certain facts, we have footnoted the omissions in full.

Postmortem Cloudflare
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Q1 2026Filed 23 Jan

State of the Platforms — Opening Letter

Our tenth annual opening letter. Ten years of watching the same firms promise the same things and break them in the same ways, with gradually better copy.

Quarterly Letter Tenth Anniversary
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14 DecFiled 18 Dec 2025

Discrepancy Filing 25-D: Alphabet, Inc.

Comparison of Workspace stated availability to observed degradation in the Asia-Pacific region across the November billing cycle. Operator acknowledged the matter on the 28th day of the month following.

Discrepancy Google Workspace
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