Twitter outage caused by human error, domain briefly yanked
During last night’s outage, Twitter users could read tweets but not follow links, thanks to a problem with the company’s t.co link shortener caused by human error.
An outage that broke hyperlinks on Twitter yesterday evening originated with a simple human error at a Melbourne, Australia-based hosting firm that was responding to an abuse complaint, CNET has learned.
Twitter last year began to abbreviate all hyperlinks using its t.co domain name — which had the side effect of introducing a central point of failure where none existed before. That failure happened last night around 11:30…
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