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Outages - were you ready?

Jan 19, 20163 min read

Written by

David O'Neill

COO / CCO

David oversees operations and customer success at APIContext, helping enterprise clients get measurable value from API monitoring.

Twitter had an extremely rare outage today, as our recent social media report showed, they're one of the most reliable services we measure. But they do have outages and given the range of services plugged into the APIs it affected people enough that the news outlets noticed: BBC Coverage here So, were you ready for it? The problems seem to have started around 13:00UTC (5am Pacific) and started clearing up around 15:00.  They were intermitent and we'll publish a more detailed review of the anatomy of this outage and the identifying characteristics later. From our initial insights, the US was largely unaffected with users in Asia and Europe having the worst performance. As we like to say here, don't get caught with your stats down!

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