‘In need of a complete rewrite,’ Elon Musk says after Twitter fixes its second outage in a week
Thousands of Twitter users reported problems accessing links from the social media platform and other websites on Monday, before the Elon Musk-owned company said it had fixed the problem. The latest in a series of outages.
musk tweeted that a small change to Twitter’s data access tool caused the problem. “Prevent extremely fragile code for no good reason. It will eventually require a complete rewrite,” he said.
Down Detector, which tracks outages, has reported more than 8,000 crashes caused by people reporting crashes. The site collates status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform.
The Twitter support account tweeted later on Monday that the issue had been resolved and “everything should be working properly.”
Internet watchdog NetBlocks said the outage also affected image and video content, during Twitter’s sixth major outage in 2023, compared with three during the same period last year.
Concerns about Twitter’s stability have persisted since Musk took over in October and laid off thousands of employees.
NetBlocks Director Alp Toker said: “The error messages provided by Twitter’s link-sharing platform and internal APIs point to issues with the platform’s microservices, which are having a knock-on effect. to other aspects of the service”.
“This shows that Twitter did not effectively test its updates before making them public,” Toker told Reuters.
The layoff and departure from Twitter included many engineers responsible for dealing with software bugs and other service issues, sources previously told Reuters.
Musk has also raced to cut costs at the company and in November ordered employees to seek up to $1 billion (about Rs 8,180 crore) in infrastructure cost cuts.
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