Data Centre Fails, Twitter is Down!

Twitter was down little bit today. When Twitter Users were trying to access the service felt an outage. Though many  people considered it due to the current Olympics push. But the truth be told, the real deal was that this outage was due to the Twitter data centers. Twitters VP engineer Mazen Rawashdeh says,

 "Twitter was hit with an infrastructural double-whammy."

This is rarely seen that the Main and Backup data center goes down side-by-side. And when Twitter went down today the reason was the same. Both Main as well as backup center went down. 

"I wish I could say that today’s outage could be explained by the Olympics or even a cascading bug,” Rawashdeh wrote in a blog post. “Instead, it was due to this infrastructural double-whammy. We are investing aggressively in our systems to avoid this situation in the future.”

Two downtimes in two months are bad for this popular Social Network. During Last month Cascading bug was responsible for the downtime. The timing of this crash was pretty bad too, as Twitter had been gearing up for tomorrow’s kickoff of the 2012 Olympics. 

But now Twitter is running quite fine at the moment. Millions of tweeters can now feel free and tweet for their favorite athlete or about Olympics Games 2012. 

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