Last night saw another Twitter outage affecting users of both the mobile app and the web version of the social network. For some people the outage lasted almost and hour, but the issue was resolved by around midday PDT.
The disruption was an unfortunate side effect of some maintenance work being carried out by Twitter, as the company explained:
“During a planned deploy in one of our core services, we experienced unexpected complications that made Twitter unavailable for many users starting at 11:01am. We rolled back the change as soon as we identified the issue and began a controlled recovery to ensure stability of other parts of the service. The site was fully recovered by 11:47am PDT. We apologize for the inconvenience.”
While the outage was scarcely more than three-quarters of an hour, it was still an inconvenience for many, and could have had caused serious problems for some individuals and businesses. With more and more of us using Twitter as the first line of communication, not being able to access the information contained in our tweets, mentions, DMs and more could leave you missing an all important phone number or email address right we need it.
As reliable as social networks are on the whole, there is no getting away from the fact that they do have occasional difficulties and experience periods of downtime. In order to avoid any potential problems caused by such outages, it’s advisable to keep a local copy of your social network content.
SocialSafe allows you to take control of your content by downloading your Facebook messages, tweets, DMs, wall posts and much more to your own library that your own and store. So whatever happens to the originals online, whether they are deleted forever or just become temporarily unavailable, you’ll always be able to access your content if it’s in your SocialSafe library.
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