How is the Latest Twitter Outage is Affecting Your Social Media Strategy
Twitter hit by another outage as Musk complains platform is ‘so brittle’
How Twitter is Responding to its Latest Outage and What Users Can Expect
Twitter’s website was down for many users on Monday, while others reported problems viewing photos and clicking through links in the app, marking one of the most widespread service disruptions under new owner Elon Musk.
Some users who tried to load Twitter.com or TweetDeck, a service that allows users to organize their Twitter feed into lists, received an error message: “your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint.” Other users were able to access the site ( although they seemed to load slowly) but encountered the same error message when clicking on the links.
Outage tracking website DownDetector showed more than 8,000 Twitter outage reports around noon Monday. For users who had access to the platform, “Twitter API” was trending as people tweeted about issues.
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Twitter users were unable to view tweets during the latest service outage under Musk
“Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now,” the company said in a tweet. “We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences. We are currently working on it and will share an update when it is fixed.”
In a separate tweet on Monday, Musk said: “This platform is so fragile (sigh). It will be fixed soon.”
Monday’s outage marked Twitter’s second outage in less than a week and its third in less than a month. Last Wednesday, some Twitter users who opened their “for you” timeline were greeted with a blank screen and a “welcome to your timeline” message prompting them to follow other users so that tweets would appear even if they were already following them. different accounts. Other users have encountered “Welcome to Twitter!” message as if they had just joined the platform.
Three weeks ago, Twitter users were experiencing various issues with the platform, including the inability to tweet, send direct messages, or follow new accounts.
Twitter has experienced a series of technical glitches since Musk took over the company and laid off more than half of its employees late last year. Users have previously reported issues with the app’s two-factor authentication tool, with replies appearing above the tweet rather than below it, and old tweets repeatedly appearing in their feed or mentions.
Some former employees have expressed concern that mass layoffs under Musk could cause the platform to more or less break after workers with knowledge of Twitter’s core systems were pushed out. However, Musk continued to cut staff in an effort to increase Twitter’s profits.
The latest outage comes after Twitter reportedly laid off another 10% of its employees late last month, including some engineers responsible for the site’s reliability, according to a New York Times report.
