‘A Cascaded Bug’ Brought Twitter to Its Knees

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eginning Thursday morning, 140 characters started burning a hole in the virtual pockets of Twitter users the world over as the social network began experiencing intermittent outages. A Twitter spokesperson told Wired via email: “Today’s outage is due to a cascaded bug in one of our infrastructure components.” What sort of snafu took down the network’s infrastructure wasn’t communicated.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/a-cascaded-bug-brought-twitter-to-its-knees/