Twitter's service went
down and up multiple times in a three-hour period this morning and it was all because of a bug, the company
explains to users. The company said it was a "cascading bug," that spread into other parts of its system, causing the outage.
Twitter's VP of engineering Mazen Rawashdeh wrote in a
blog post today that the bug isn't confined to a particular software element and instead "cascades" into other elements, affecting users worldwide. He said the company took "corrective actions," after it discovered the bug.
"Not how we wanted today to go. At approximately 9 a.m. PDT, we discovered that Twitter was inaccessible for all Web users, and mobile clients were not showing new tweets. We immediately began to investigate the issue and found that there was a cascading bug in one of our infrastructure components. This wasn't due to a hack or our new office or Euro 2012 or GIF avatars, as some have speculated today," he wrote.
