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According to a story, Twitter's data centre in Sacramento, California, was recently forced offline owing to a heat wave in the area. According to an internal message from a Twitter executive, an outage at another cata centre may prohibit Twitter from giving access to some users. The event, which is claimed to have occurred before of the deadline for shareholders to vote on Elon Musk's plan to purchase the service, has yet to be publicly announced by the firm.
According to CNN, citing an internal memo from Twitter Vice President of Engineering Carrie Fernandez, Twitter lost access to its Sacramento (SMF) data centre on September 5, resulting in the "total shutdown of physical equipment." Fernandez also reportedly warned that an outage at another location could prevent Twitter from serving some users.
Due to the outage at the San Francisco data centre, the company is reportedly operating in a "non-redundant state," according to the memo, which refers to operational data centres in Atlanta and Portland. Redundancies are multiple data centres used by large firms to ensure that their services are available to users even if one data centre is inaccessible.
The disruption was reported only days before the deadline for Twitter shareholders to vote on Elon Musk's $44 billion (approximately Rs. 3,49,900 crore) acquisition offer on Tuesday.
Peiter Zatko, Twitter's former security head, is also scheduled to testify before a US Senate Committee on Tuesday about his charges of improper security policies at the business. According to the article, Zatko previously claimed that the service lacked adequate data redundancy, which may cause it to go offline momentarily or permanently.
While the company has yet to officially provide details about the California data centre, a company spokesperson told CNN in a statement that there had been no disruptions in access to Twitter and that the company's teams were equipped with the tools and resources needed to ship updates and provide a seamless experience, according to the report.
According to the story, the memo has halted any substantial modifications to Twitter's product until access to the data centre is restored. According to the document, these include mobile platform installations and updates, as well as any non-urgent production changes.
