A bug in Twitter prevents Android users from accessing their app
This morning many users of the social network Twitter will have been surprised to have logged out of their account on the terminalsAndroid And it is that the servicestart of the 140 characters has kicked them this morning due to a technical failure that has affected millions of users. An issue that has not greatly affected the Spanish public as occurred late at night, but it has prevented the use and consultation of this social network all those users who have tried to access it during the early morning
Twitter itself confirmed the failure through its status service once the incident was resolved. Thus, for five and a half hours the 140-character social network gave problems to users who tried to access it, finding themselves blocked at the time of log in or sign with your user data. Most of them through Android devices, although their application for computers, TweetDeck, it was also affected by preventing the passage of users.
Apparently, and as Twitter comments, the problem resided in a small bug or malfunction of your code An error that, after being discovered, was also patched or fixed, returning the service to the vast majority of affected users. However, it seems that there may still be those who cannot access the social network, although their engineers are working to solve all problems as soon as possible.
All of this has resulted in users leaving and logging out of Twitter in the application Android Something unusual and that prevented access to messages, publications, tweets and timeline despite correctly entering their data. However, for several hours, it is enough to access the application again and log in with the usual account and password to get full access as was the case up to now .
The medium Engadged has echoed the investigations of a user who has gone a step further to investigate said failure, finding with the surprise of a curious problem. And it is that the servers of Twitter that support this social network already believe they will be in 2015Something like a 2000 effect that could be the cause of this specific failure that has already been solved and corrected to the satisfaction of regular users.
Twitter service outages are not a common trend, although they have occurred on other occasions. Either due to the saturation of the service itself, such as when the retweeted the most famous selfie in history at the Oscars ceremony in the United States, or due to some failure of the servers. Although, at least, they have not occurred on an almost monthly basis as has happened with the application WhatsApp In any case, a small failure that Spanish users have suffered few consequences, being only necessary to re-enter your account data to access the service.
