Hours after its first crash, Twitter failed again

Twitter enter a fall of the world This Saturday April 17 just a few hours after its failure in normal operation. At 40 countries, included Mexico, The United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom have fallen from the social network, he noted. Breakdown report.

According to the platform, failures in the social red started around 07:30 hours, after having presented malfunctions last Friday at 8:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.

As has happened on other occasions, users took the opportunity to point out and joke that it was not his internetInstead, Twitter was down.

According to Internet users, when they tried to enter the social network, the legend “Mistake“, O”Something went wrong“.

During nocturnal failures Twitter support, posted that “tweets may not load for some of you.” “We are working to resolve a problem and they will return to their schedule shortly,” he added.

On the other hand, Mexico’s official Twitter account today pointed out that, “We know some parts of Twitter are still not working for some of you. It isWe are fixing an issue with our servers and things will be back to normal soon. Thank you for being with us!“.

In addition, Descent detector, another platform that records failures in the main social networks, failures on Twitter persisted throughout this Saturday in different frequencies.

Details indicating that errors have occurred in a 53% on site, the 26% on the Android app and 19% in the iPhone or iPad application.

We do not yet know exactly what happened to the social network. Twitter has not given an explanation so far.

The Twitter crash comes days after a similar, but much longer, outage was recorded with WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook.

The social network announced on Wednesday that it would launch an initiative on “responsible machine learning“Which will include criticism of the algorithmic fairness on your platform.

Agree with AFP, The California-based company said the plan aims to provide more transparency on its artificial intelligence and address “The Potential Adverse Effects of Algorithmic Decisions”.

The initiative comes against a backdrop of growing concern about the algorithms used by online services, which some believe can promote violence, extremist content and reinforce racial or gender bias.

“Responsible use of technology includes studying the long-term effects it can have,” Jutta Williams and Rumman Chowdhury, of Twitter’s Ethics and Transparency team, wrote in a blog post.

When Twitter uses machine learning or machine learning, “it can affect hundreds of millions of tweets per day and sometimes the way a system was designed to help might start to behave differently than expected,” they said. Explain.

According to the researchers, the initiative seeks to “take responsibility for our algorithmic decisions” in order to achieve “equity and justice in the results”.

This Twitter strategy follows a series of controversies within the ethics team of google artificial intelligence, which resulted in the dismissal of two high-level researchers and the resignation of one high-level scientist.

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