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Twitter suffered a nasty technical failure today that temporarily cut links to external websites and even Twitter’s own web pages. The problem lasted for about 45 minutes.
In our tests, clicking the link resulted in the following error message:
“error”:[“message”:”Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information”,”code”:467]
Clicking on that developer link didn’t solve anything while the problem was still happening as I got the same API error message. In addition to news articles and other external links, I received an error message when trying to click Twitter’s terms of service, privacy policy, cookie policy, and other similar pages. There have been reports that some images embedded in Tweets have been corrupted, and that TweetDeck has also been corrupted.
I also got the error message when I loaded the Twitter page in incognito mode in my browser. Browsers already logged into Twitter were still able to view tweets in his tab, and linking issues were a trendy topic of discussion.
The official Twitter support account acknowledged the issue before it was fixed. “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now,” Twitter said. I have written“We made an internal change that had unintended consequences. We are working on this and will share an update once it is fixed.”
Musk: Code is ‘fragile for no good reason’
“This platform is very vulnerable (sigh). It will be fixed soon,” says CEO Elon Musk I have written. he Added He later said, “A small API change had a big impact. The code stack is very fragile for no good reason. Eventually it will require a complete rewrite.”
The “current API plan” portion of the error message has led to widespread speculation that the issue is related to Twitter’s billing decisions for API access. “Did Twitter forget to subscribe to their own API?” 1 user Asked“Twitter’s own product is broken as it discontinues its free API,” says information technology reporter Paris Martineau I have written.
We will update this article as soon as we have specific details about the cause of the link failure. The Twitter link seems to be working fine now and the Twitter support account Confirmed The issue has been fixed.
After acquiring Twitter in October 2022, Musk cut costs by laying off half of Twitter’s staff and laying off thousands of contractors. , 1 or 0 engineers. “
