Twitter avoided a shutdown on Sept. 5 by leaning on its other data centers during the outage to keep its systems running. A company executive warned that if another center were lost, some users would have been unable to access the social media platform.
, which are both based in London. Those outages left customers unable to access the online services for nearly an entire day.
“On September 5th, Twitter experienced the loss of its Sacramento datacenter region due to extreme weather. The unprecedented event resulted in the total shutdown of physical equipment in SMF,” wrote Carrie Fernandez, the company’s vice president of engineering, this past Friday in an internal message to Twitter engineers, CNN reported.
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