‘Need a complete rewrite,’ Elon Musk Says After Twitter Fixes Latest Outage

Thousands 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 stated it had fastened the newest in a collection of outages.

Musk tweeted that a small change with Twitter’s data-access instrument had brought on the issue. “The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. Will ultimately need a complete rewrite,” he stated.

Downdetector, which tracks outages, reported greater than 8,000 incidents of individuals reporting points. The web site collates standing studies from a variety of sources, together with user-submitted errors on its platform.

Twitter’s help account tweeted afterward Monday that the difficulty was resolved and “things should be working as normal.”

Internet observatory NetBlocks stated the difficulty 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 12 months.

Concerns about Twitter’s stability have endured since Musk took it over in October and laid off hundreds of staff.

“Error messages supplied by Twitter’s link sharing platform and internal API point to problems with the platform’s microservices, which are having a knock-on effect on other aspects of the service,” NetBlocks Director Alp Toker stated.

“This suggests Twitter has not been effectively testing its updates before pushing them to the public,” Toker advised Reuters.

The layoffs and departures from Twitter have included many engineers chargeable for responding to software program bugs and different service points, sources beforehand advised Reuters.

Musk has additionally raced to chop prices on the firm and in November ordered staff to search out as much as $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,180 crore) in infrastructure price cuts.

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