Today's Twitter Outage Due To Cascaded Bug

According to Apica, Twitter’s homepage began showing errors at 6:33 a.m. PST.

But why did today’s Twitter outage happen? Well, according to @twittercomms it was a “cascaded bug.”

But what IS a cascaded bug?

We picture it as dominoes – when one falls, it affects a slew of others in its path. Yes, that is the technical definition of “cascade bug.” Anyway, it means it makes a mess and there are likely many items that needed to be fixed.

There

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