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California’s heat wave affects twitter

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(KYMA, KECY/CNN) - California's heat wave has knocked a key twitter data center offline.

If there's another outage elsewhere, the service could go dark for some users.

A Twitter executive said the platform lost its Sacramento data center region on September 5th due to extreme heat.

That puts the platform in a "non-redundant state," meaning it doesn't have much backup if there's another outage.

The vice president of engineering said --data centers in Atlanta and portland are still operational...

...but added quote, “if we lose one of those remaining data centers, we may not be able to serve traffic to all twitter's users.”

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