Twitter outage: Thinks it's 2015 already…

Normalcy was restored on most Android devices that had stopped allowing users from logging into twitter.

What actually caused the problem according to one twitter user was that the ‘Twitter server thought we were already in 2015’.

“I MITMed Twitter for Android's login to see why it was failing. The Twitter servers think it's 2015. Amazing,” said a post by @_Ninji

He even took a screenshot of the log and posted it on twitter.

This was supported by other users who reported that their TweetDeck on Chrome also keeps dating recent tweets at 365days ago.

According to twitter, the problem - a bug in the front end code – lasted for five hours between 4am and 9am (PST).

The problem appears to have been resolved now with most users being able to sign back in. Twitter in its latest status report pointed out the following:

“Between 4.00 and 9.25 PST today some users were unable to sign in to twitter. This issue was due to a bug in our front end code, which has been patched. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this.”

This is not the first time users. Although the current issue affected only the Android users, another disruption – about two weeks ago had resulted in some users experiencing issues sending and viewing tweets on twitter.com and twitter’s mobile apps. But it had only lasted for less than an hour before the problem was rectified.

Meanwhile, the users of the social networking site have gone on to report their frustration using the hash tag #twitterdown, with some even stating that the users

“So twitter just crashed for like 4 hours on all android phones and it literally felt like hell.,” one user said.

“I think the most frustrating thing for folks affected by #twitterdown was that they could not tweet their frustration,” said another one.

“Twitter for Android was down. Most folks did not know what to do with all that free time. Staring blankly into nothingness,” said another tweet.

Also doing the rounds are reports that Android users who have been locked out could be unknowingly handing over their passwords to a trojan-horse virus hack. Some users picked up a blog post indicating this.

Interestingly, several tweets by Anonymous thorough their various accounts clarified that the twitter incident was not actually a result of hacking.

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