On Monday, after a “internal change” was made at Twitter, hundreds of users reported issues with the social media network, including photos and links that seemed to be broken for many.
According to Website Downdetector, the social media network was available to the vast majority of users, albeit over 8,000 occurrences were recorded before service was back to normal.
Downdetector monitors website issues by compiling status information from a variety of sources, including user-submitted faults.
After around 90 minutes of problems, Twitter Help sent out the following tweet: “Everything should be back to normal at this point. We appreciate your continued support.”
There were “some unforeseen effects” from an internal change, the firm stated.
While using the Twitter app or website, users have reported seeing an error message when trying to access a link.
Your API plan does not provide access to this endpoint,” the error message said. Also, it recommends that you check out Twitter’s API Developers website.
APIs allow software to “speak” to one another and share data so that end users may access resources like media files and web connections.
In the past, previews of linked photos, videos, and graphics were hidden from users.
In the months after Twitter was acquired by billionaire Elon Musk, users have seen problems such as worldwide service outages.
M. Musk tweeted amid the problems, “This platform is so fragile (sigh).”
The Twitter application programming interface (API) will no longer be accessible for free, as revealed by the company. The problems that arose on Monday may or may not have been related to the upcoming shift.