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An engineer’s mistake caused Twitter to crash

On Monday, Twitter had a global problem. | Fountain: AFP

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On Monday, Twitter reported global issues with a bug showing users an error message when they wanted to view links or photos.

Twitter He explained the problem this way: “Some parts Twitter they might not work right now… We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences.”

Social media problem Elon Musk Apparently this was caused by a change made by the engineer.

What really happened to Twitter?

Platformer talked to internal sources of the social network, who assured that the fall is due to a project that seeks to cut free access to API from Twitter. API This is important because it allows it to interact with other applications and services.

The biggest drawback, against the backdrop of cuts ordered Elon Muskin that only an engineer is engaged in such an important task.

employee Twitter pointed out that the engineer made “a bad configuration change that actually broke the API Twitter.

Elon Musk apparently blamed technical problems on the previous administration Twitter.

Platformer indicates layoffs are gone Twitter with less than 550 full-time engineers.

The outlet counted at least six notable service outages from Twitter this year.

With fewer workers it took Twitter a few hours to fix the problem. “That’s what happens when you fire 90 percent of the company’s employees,” mused another employee.

Source: RPP

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