Twitter suffered "internal failure" and was unavailable for almost an hour

The social network of 140 characters was abandoned for more than 40 minutes, minutes before 4 pm in Argentina, worldwide.

The gate Downdetector reported mistakes around the worldbut the incident map was much more active in North America (both US coasts) and in Europe. In less than ten minutes, he received 40,000 reports of failures.

The problems were recorded not only in the desktop version, but also in the mobile version and in the application. The company reported on one of its pages that there was a service failure.

They explained that they "were investigating the incident allowing people to access Twitter".

At age 17, when the service began to be set up, they indicated that "the failure was due to a change in the internal configuration, which we are solving". They also added that "many people can already access the platform and we are working so that everyone can use Twitter as quickly as possible".

The social network itself made a joke and tweeted "Did we miss it?" when the service has been restored.

The fall of Twitter is not an exceptional event. A little over a week ago, a general failure of Facebook has affected this social network, but also Instagram and WhatsApp. The email application did not allow sending multimedia file.

That day, after about 10 hours without service, the platforms went back to work. According to the company created by Mark Zuckerberg, the origin of the problem would have been generated "during a routine operation".

"During one of our routine maintenance operations, a problem has been caused that makes it difficult to download or send photos and videos by some people," they explained from the social network.

Anyway, the strongest theory is that it was a Content Distribution Network (CDN) failure, a name given to servers in different parts of the world and responsible for speeding up distribution. multimedia content.