"system glitch" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an unexpected, usually minor problem that occurs with a computer system or other electronic process. For example, "I apologize for the delay in processing your request - it was caused by a system glitch."
"There was some sort of system glitch," said Andrew Goldman, executive vice president of Instinet Group.
Ryanair appealed to the UK's aviation regulator to intervene after a telephone system glitch caused air chaos across the country.
The experiment was also designed so that this apparent system glitch would become quickly obvious to participants.
The letter, which was previously reported by The Wall Street Journal, claimed that " market participants' losses were not caused by a system glitch" but rather "grossly negligent, self-serving business decisions".
For example, when a criminal is involved, the cost for a breach is typically $170.00 per capita per breach, versus if it's a system glitch or a human error it's more like $140.00 a breach.
In the span of the two minutes it typically takes to rectify a trading system glitch, a careless trader could pump out 120,000 faulty orders.
In 2004, Democratic attempts to match Voter Vault often collapsed ignominiously - bad data and system glitches.
Yet system glitches, handset troubles, spotty service and high prices turned the start of the service into a huge embarrassment.
But other days, every action grinds, every system glitches or breaks down; you feel furious and frustrated.
This despite some uncertain harmonizing and sound system glitches, which gave unwelcome new meaning to Mr. Sondheim's themes of dislocation and fractured identity, at the Sunday matinee.
For most of the 1980's and 90's, online banking was limited to early technology adopters willing to put up with arcane software, proprietary networks, system glitches and security concerns.
