Social networking Web site Twitter had a confusing Thursday. The micro-blogging site crashed and revived multiple times over a two hour period beginning 9:00 am PDT.
The possibility of a hack was the first thing that came to our mind. However, Twitter has assured concerned parties the crashes were the result of internal failures and not hacking. The company said a "cascading bug" caused a domino-like effect on the system!
According to Pingdom, the traffic monitoring site, this is Twitter's worst crash in months after an hour-long hobbling on October 7. Twitter is not new to such outages. It went down at least twice in August 2009, once for several hours, when hackers caused a "denial of service" attack.
"We are currently conducting a comprehensive review to ensure that we can avoid this chain of events in the future," Rawashdeh wrote, adding that, "For the past six months, we've enjoyed our highest marks for site reliability and stability ever."
The Web site's service, however, is now back to normal. So, enjoy tweeting!
