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i'm dan farber today has not been a great day for Twitter the site has been up and down all through the morning and into the afternoon I am joined by Donna Tam who's been covering this story for Cena Donna give us a little bit of the play-by-play so the site went down this morning around nine and it looked like it was down for about an hour twitter at issued a statement saying that they were working on fixing it and then it was fixed and then it went back down again and then issue another statement saying okay our engineers are working on it and that they would keep updating people throughout the day and then what ended up happening was after was up and down a couple more times Twitter said that it was a cascaded bug you know what is a cascaded bug it sounds to me like it's a problem that they had that they tried to fix and it created other bugs yeah that's my understanding is that it kind of was a failure within their own system that kind of carried out through the rest of it was the Twittersphere came back there were some people who were saying or at least some perhaps some entity saying that twitter had been hacked but twitter itself doesn't seem to to go with that correct yeah they are saying it's a bug there was a one group that's claiming responsibility saying that they're continuing to hack Twitter right now but but we have no verification no confirmation and what's the overall impact certainly a lot of the Twitter users the addicts were quite upset and and vocal about it went on to other sites like Facebook and Google+ to talk about it but is there an impact of businesses who depend on on Twitter for some of what they do you got imagine that there is because they depend on that a lot to send their messages out to their consumers and stuff like that and also a lot of them do is run a lot of their customer service through that I mean I imagine that they were also freaking out because they had a lot of people to answer to through that medium now twitter is not the only big company that has fails and in fact i think on May 31st Facebook had some downtime so is this just something normal that users should expect that that these sites are not going to be invulnerable to two failures or crashes I think it's got to be the reality I mean technology isn't fail so Donna thanks for talking to us thanks for having me forcing it i'm dan farber thanks for watching