Twitter's latest outage caused by single engineer's mistake: report

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Twitter's latest outage caused by single engineer's mistake: report
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Twitter's latest outage was reportedly caused by a single engineer's mistake. One employee says the platform is so brittle, 'everything breaks' if engineers change something.

, Musk said:"A small API change had massive ramifications. The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. Will ultimately need a complete rewrite."

One employee told Platformer:"There's so much tech debt from Twitter 1.0 that if you make a change right now, everything breaks." at Twitter have left the company with fewer than 550 full-time engineers, according to Platformer. Musk has cut thousands from Twitter's headcount since completing his acquisition of the company in October.

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