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The company announced that is aware of the situation on its status log: "We’re currently experiencing a high error rate on Twitter. Our infrastructure and operations engineers are responding to the incident," the post says.
This is the first notable outage since the World Cup repeatedly overtaxed the site earlier this summer. Ironically, the downtime comes less than two weeks after Twitter's public promise to improve the reliability of its service.
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