TENS of thousands of Twitter users have been affected by a mysterious outage.
Users have reported being locked out of the app completely in a strange glitch.
When attempting to log on to Twitter, users receive the following notice: “{“errors”:[{“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}]}”
Social media users have reported an array of problems, from issues logging in to hyperlinks appearing broken and being unable to tweet.
The Twitter Support team tweeted: “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences. We’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed.”
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Majority of issues reported with website
Approximately 69 percent of the issues reported were regarding Twitter’s website, while 19 percent were issues with the app.
An additional 12 percent of users reported server connectivity problems.
One account on Downdetector’s comments wrote: “The d**m API is down, can’t even load images/videos and now I can’t even access the page fr.”
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‘Did you just insult your own platform?!’
Underneath Elon Musk’s tweet addressing the outage, Twitter users poked fun at him.
One wrote: “Did you just insult your own platform?!”
One user questioned the CEO, saying “What did you change that became so consequential though?”
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Tweeting problems reported weeks ago
Just a few weeks ago people were left unable to tweet on the site due to another problem.
Users reported receiving a weird message saying they were “over the daily limit for sending Tweets”.
Direct Messages and notifications were also affected.
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Separate outage reported days ago
The current outage comes just days after a separate Twitter outage left thousands with a broken feed.
Twitter fans were unable to get their main Twitter feeds to load, and branded it “a mess.”
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Twitter users respond to outage
One user on Down Detector wrote: “That’s cool. I didn’t want to read Twitter anyway. It’s not like I’m sitting here hitting F5 repeatedly.”
Another frustrated Twitter fan said: “Glad we all have a new home here now that Twitter is bye bye.”
And one locked-out Twitterer joked: “Anyone scrolling through TikTok now?”
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Elon Musk comments on outage
The Twitter CEO addressed the issue on Twitter:
“This platform is so brittle (sigh),” he wrote in a tweet.
“Will be fixed shortly.”
