Twitter suffered a significant outage on the morning of Monday, March sixth. Throughout the outage, hyperlinks and pictures stopped working throughout the social media platform on cellular apps and the Twitter web site.
Clicking on Twitter hyperlinks resulted in an error web page that learn, “Your present API plan doesn’t embrace entry to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for extra info.”
In response to DownDetector, the outage started roughly at 11:27am ET/8:27pm PT, and peaked at roughly 12:12pm ET/9:12pm ET.
Round 12:40 is when service appeared to have resumed, with hyperlinks and pictures working as supposed.
This comes quickly after Twitter went down earlier this month, the place customers couldn’t publish new Tweets and ship or obtain direct messages (DMs).
Some elements of Twitter might not be working as anticipated proper now. We made an inside change that had some unintended penalties. We’re engaged on this now and can share an replace when it’s fastened.
— Twitter Help (@TwitterSupport) March 6, 2023
Twitter has confirmed that it made an inside change that had “some unintended penalties,” which triggered the outage on the platform. Nevertheless, the corporate is at the moment engaged on fixing the issue and has promised to supply updates when the problem is resolved. In a observe up tweet, the corporate mentioned that “issues ought to now be working as regular.”
In a Tweet reply, Twitter CEO Elon Musk chimed in too, saying that “A small API change had huge ramifications. The code stack is extraordinarily brittle for no good cause.” He added, “Will in the end want a whole rewrite,” referring to the code.
A small API change had huge ramifications. The code stack is extraordinarily brittle for no good cause.
Will in the end want a whole rewrite.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2023
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