Twitter API issue breaks links, images and a third-party app
-
Loading... - Nicole Davis
- 07 Mar 2023
- 68 Views
- 0 Like
- 0 Comment
For about an hour, users were unable to click on links or upload images. It's the most recent in a series of issues for the company since Elon Musk took over.
Multiple features on Twitter experienced temporary issues Monday, as users reported problems with broken links, images and at least one third-party app.
The affected features appeared to rebound back to normal about an hour after the outages were first reported.
Users said that when they clicked on a link posted to Twitter, they were shown a black window with text that read, "Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint." The same message appeared when a reporter tried to use TweetDeck, a third-party platform that connects to Twitter accounts.
The phrase "Twitter API" began trending as the issue began affecting users.
NBC News observed a steep drop in user visits to news articles from Twitter starting just before 11:45 a.m. ET. The ability to embed tweets into NBC News articles also appeared to be disrupted.
Some users also reported issues viewing or uploading images. NetBlocks, a digital watchdog organization that tracks internet outages, tweeted confirmation that Twitter was experiencing widespread issues.
"Confirmed: Twitter is currently experiencing international slowdowns and outages affecting many users, also impacting image and video content; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown," NetBlocks tweeted. Read More…
