Hundreds of Twitter customers reported issues accessing hyperlinks from the social media platform and different web sites on Monday, earlier than the Elon Musk-owned firm mentioned it had fastened the newest in a sequence of outages.
Musk tweeted {that a} small change with Twitter’s data-access device had brought about the issue. “The code stack is extraordinarily brittle for no good motive. Will finally want a whole rewrite,” he mentioned.
Downdetector, which tracks outages, reported greater than 8,000 incidents of individuals reporting points. The web site collates standing stories from plenty of sources, together with user-submitted errors on its platform.
Twitter’s assist account tweeted in a while Monday that the problem was resolved and “issues must be working as regular.”
Web observatory NetBlocks mentioned the problem had affected picture and video content material too, in Twitter’s sixth main outage in 2023, in contrast with three in the identical interval final yr.
Considerations about Twitter’s stability have continued since Musk took it over in October and laid off hundreds of staff.
“Error messages provided by Twitter’s hyperlink sharing platform and inside API level to issues with the platform’s microservices, that are having a knock-on impact on different elements of the service,” NetBlocks Director Alp Toker mentioned.
“This means Twitter has not been successfully testing its updates earlier than pushing them to the general public,” Toker informed Reuters.
The layoffs and departures from Twitter have included many engineers chargeable for responding to software program bugs and different service points, sources beforehand informed Reuters.
Musk has additionally raced to chop prices on the firm and in November ordered staff to seek out as much as $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,180 crore) in infrastructure value cuts.
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