Twitter According to the company’s official support account, it can now “work as usual,” but the owner Elon Musk used an amusing clip from the movie Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa to explain what went wrong.

What happened: Musk shared the scene from the film where penguins ignore an error on the airplane console and throw themselves and their friends to the ground.

The entrepreneur said the video was “helpful” in understanding what happened on Twitter today.

Twitter support gave the all-clear for the crash earlier in the day.

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Why it matters: Today’s crash, the sixth high-profile service outage since the Tesla CEO gained control of Twitter, happened because of a “small API change” that Musk said had “massive impact.”

The billionaire blamed Twitter’s “extremely brittle” code stack for the downtime, saying it needed to be “completely rewritten.”

The API change caused users to experience issues such as: B. error messages and loss of access Tweet Deck. The change was part of a project to shut down free access to the Twitter API. reported The Verge citing platformers.

Reportedly, only one site reliability engineer was in charge of the project, who made a “bad configuration change” that broke the API. Musk was reportedly furious.

Musk in December exchanged harsh words with a former engineer on the subject.

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