Social media platform's outage was due to 'internal code change'

folarin okunola

January 20, 2016 5:26 PM

In lay man’s terms, someone wrote a code that crashed the platform for a while. It was an unusually long outage for Twitter with the outage lasting roughly 8 hours.

Twitter Co-founder and newly announced CEO Jack Dorsey

Pulse Tech reported that Twitter was down yesterday in a global meltdown of sorts and now the cause of that may have come to light.

According to Re/code, Twitter apparently experienced an issue “related to an internal code change” that caused its Web and mobile apps to go down for a significant amount of time.

In lay man’s terms, someone wrote a code that crashed the platform for a while. It was an unusually long outage for Twitter with the outage lasting roughly 8 hours.

Considering the real time nature of the platform, eight hours is a long time.

READ: Social networking site hit by sporadic outages in many parts of globe

The outage is yet another concern for Twitter investors. There is no denying that these kinds of outages happen from time to time with most major software companies but Twitter not most software companies.

It is a company that is fighting to prove that its struggling stock price and lack of user growth aren’t long term concerns.

It is also a company that is trying to prove that having a CEO that also runs another company at the same time is nothing to worry about.

That’s why the social media platform cannot afford issues like this especially as it approaches its Q4 earnings call next month. Its stock is at an all-time low and this outage is the last thing the company needs.

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