At Elon Musk's 'brittle' Twitter, tweaks trigger massive outages

'Every mistake in code and operations is now deadly,' a former
engineer said last year. That dire prediction appears to be coming
true.

On two occasions recently, almost exactly a month apart, minor changes
to Twitter's code appeared to break the website.

The latest outage came Monday as thousands of users found they could
not access links, photos or other key aspects of the site.

"A small API change had massive ramifications," Twitter CEO Elon Musk
wrote in a tweet on Monday, referring to the tool used by third-party developers who run programs that draw on Twitter data and post to its
site. "The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. Will
ultimately need a complete rewrite."

It was the second time Monday he'd turned to that explanation, both
times calling the site "brittle."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/06/elon-musk-twitter-outages/

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