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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Tracking website Down Detector saw a huge surge in reports of problems on Tuesday afternoon UK time.
Many computers do not count time in the usual way, but instead register it as the number of seconds that have amassed since 1 January 1970, which is called the Unix epoch.
But it also means that any problems with that code can lead to confusion, since they will often make it appear as if something happened 50 years ago.
Even users who could see those posts saw the tweets as empty or not showing properly, however, suggesting that the issue was more widespread than just a problem with the time.
Users also reported that retweets appeared to broken, showing instead as “RT” alongside the post they had tried to share.
The problems come almost exactly a year after Elon Musk bought Twitter, a deal that was closed on 27 October, 2022.
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