Twitter officials, as well as cybersecurity academics, say the social media site’s shutdown Wednesday night was an example of downsizing and cost cutting risks, and that more challenges lie ahead.
Users were unable to tweet for approximately 90 minutes from 21:30 to 23:00 UK time as the platform told users “You have exceeded your daily tweet limit”.
Some Twitter users have found a solution by scheduling tweets to be posted a minute after they’ve been typed, through the app or the vertically integrated TweetDeck toolbar.
But this error Twitter confirmed that have not been explained shows how little wiggle room the company has to find and correct errors that occur.
So said a recent Twitter employee I There were three “massive” bugs in the code that make this possible. Pay Twitter Blue subscribers to post tweets up to 4000 characters long.. Approximately 550 Twitter engineers were given a month to develop and code new character limits instead of the thousands that worked before the acquisition of Elon Musk – a time frame they considered unrealistic.
At the same time, Twitter introduced a new limit on the number of tweets a user can post on a given day, and announced changes how users can access the API used by third party services to access and post to Twitter and many automated accounts.
With so many fundamental changes to the platform infrastructure all at once, I understands that Twitter is still trying to figure out which of the changes caused the crash. The former senior engineer believes that API changes may have been the cause of the problem.
business edition wealth First reported that Musk urged employees immediately after the crash: “Beware of developing new features now in favor of maximum system stability and reliability, especially with the upcoming Super Bowl.”
Musk also urged employees to end cost-cutting efforts to reduce their use of Google’s cloud hosting and consolidate the number of data centers Twitter uses to store information, suggesting this could also be contributing to the outage.
“As we see layoffs at many large technology companies, I suspect that the user experience will be affected as much as we saw with Twitter,” said Alan Woodward, professor of cybersecurity at the University of Surrey. “It looks like Twitter is making the problem worse by trying to make some significant changes by disabling sharing with their tech team.”
Former Twitter engineers who maintained the platform, who were laid off in Musk’s mass layoffs, have previously warned that if key parts of Twitter go down, there will be longer and more frequent shutdowns because overworked employees lack institutional knowledge. and support to solve it. problems as they arise.
Twitter owner Thursday morning tweet that the outage was the result of “simultaneously several internal and external problems”. He hoped the issues would be resolved later that day.
Meanwhile, Twitter users are wondering if they can post every time they use the platform.
“It’s almost inevitable that users will become beta testers,” says Woodward. “This is how some of the tech giants worked 20 years ago, but possible backlash from users has changed that.”
Woodward added, “Perhaps Twitter should learn its lesson again.”
Source: I News
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