to be honest it looks like they tried to tweak their algorithms and f--ked something up. This is bound to happen if you can't do it in a staging environment and have to do it on live. For twitter, because of the real size of the real production environment, there's no telling what a tweak will do. RIP IN PIECES
So you're saying they planned this outage instead of just censoring it? DEEP THOUGHTS
to be honest it looks like they tried to tweak their algorithms and f--ked something up. This is bound to happen if you can't do it in a staging environment and have to do it on live. For twitter, because of the real size of the real production environment, there's no telling what a tweak will do. RIP IN PIECES
And it isn't like it is reasonable to backup all of Twitter.