Unpacking the March 28th Twitter Outage | Outage Deep Dive

We're back! 00:00 Welcome: This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this episode, our newest host, Chris Villemez, is joined by Kemal Sanjta to discuss a BGP-related incident that took down Twitter for many users around the globe on March 28th. 00:36 Under the Hood: Chris Villemez and Kemal Sanjta leverage their extensive operations experience managing the networks of large-scale SaaS, IoT, and cloud providers to analyze this incident using the ThousandEyes platform. They examine the scope of the outage, review the specific BGP changes that resulted in the outage, and discuss what enterprises can do when they’re experiencing a similar BGP hijack or route leak. Sharelinks: Single agent (Manchester) test: https://anislusvvn.share.thousandeyes.com/ Multi-agent global test showing BGP changes: https://axntbxntyk.share.thousandeyes.com/ 31:00 Outro: We've been on a bit of a break for the past several months as things were relatively quiet on the Internet front and for the foreseeable future we'll be a bit reactive in our episodes, when something major happens trust we'll be here. Questions? Feedback? Have an idea for a guest? Send us an email at [email protected]