Twitter Blamed Downtime Today to an Error in Routine Change

Twitter confirmed the down time that happened today, apologized to the inconvenience and stated that it was due to an error in a routine change.

Twitter, as one of the most visited sites in the world, which has over 554 million active users experienced a down time for 25 minutes around noon. The issue has been resolved but a delay on Tweet delivery was still evident 20 minutes after it was back up.

This is a message from Twitter.

Update: This issue has been resolved.

Due to an error in a routine change, Twitter was not available from 1:08pm PDT to 1:33pm PDT. We rolled back the erroneous change as soon as we identified the issue. Additionally, some users may have experienced Tweet delivery delay from 1:33pm PDT and 1:53pm PDT. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Some users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.

The system issue that has happened today is actually the second in the past four days and it seems that Twitter need to explain better than blaming it to an error in a ‘routine change’. On a positive note, at least it’s not an issue of being hacked again.

So what exactly is a routine change? In a security IT language, examples of routine changes are adding electronic information processing equipment, movement of it within the facility, and minor installation changes. However, Twitter did not explain it further that’s why most of the users are still complaining about the social networking site unresponsive to their inquiries about the cause of the down time.

Users flooded Is It Down Right Now , a site that helps users check if the website they are trying to browse is down or not, with complaints about Twitter being down in different areas in the U.S.