Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Twitter down: Website and Mobile App of Social Network collapse




Visitors to the website were greeted by a message telling them that "Something is technically wrong".

"Thanks for noticing," the message reads. "We're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."

Access to the service began failing over the web, mobile and its API (application programming interface, the system that applications use to speak to the Twitter service) at 8:20am GMT, with error messages warning the network is both over capacity and suffering an internal error. By 10:00am, the majority of the service had returned to some semblance of normality, with the companys image handling service and home timelines still suffering, but Twitter continued to sporadically fail throughout the day.

Twitters own status board updated at 9:00, confirming the outage, and the companys developer-facing monitoring confirmed that four of the five public APIs were down, suffering a service disruption. At 8:47, the search API was upgraded to performance issues. By 8:55am, a second API was upgraded to performance issues, and some users were able to sporadically access the service. But the sites status yo-yoed, and several services were still reported as down more than two hours after the outage began.

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Mobile apps as well as the website itself appeared to be broken. Tweetdeck, Twitter's other official client, was also broken.


Twitter's @Support account posted a message saying that "Some users are currently experiencing problems accessing Twitter. We are aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution." (That account is itself part of the outage, but Twitter sent the text of the tweet to The Independent.)


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