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How a single engineer brought down Twitter
“If you make a change right now, everything breaks.”
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Monday’s errant configuration change was at least the sixth high-profile service outage at Twitter this year:
“This type of outage has become so frequent that I think we’re all numb to it,” a current employee says.
- On January 23rd,Android users temporarily couldn’t load new tweets or post them.
- On February 8th,an error message told users that they were “over the daily limit for sending Tweets,” preventing them from posting.
- On February 15th,tweets stopped loading.
- On February 18th,the timeline broke and replies disappeared.
- On March 1st,the timeline stopped working.