Twitter Outage Prevents Users From Visiting Links, Seeing Images

pcmag.com:

An outage across Twitter is preventing users from visiting links or seeing photos and videos over the social media service. 

The outage appears to have begun around 9:00 am PST. That’s when users noticed visiting links over tweets could trigger an error message involving Twitter’s API, which can let third-party apps and services connect to the platform. 

"Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api(Opens in a new window) for more information','code':467,” the error message reads. 

At the same time, Twitter has been failing to show images and videos uploaded to user tweets. Instead, the posts will merely show a blank, colored box. Netblocks, an internet watchdog, has confirmed(Opens in a new window) the outage appears to be affecting users across the globe. 

Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is aware of the outage. “This platform is so brittle (sigh). Will be fixed shortly,” he said in a tweet(Opens in a new window). Ironically, visiting his Twitter profile can also trigger the same error message about the API. 

The company's support team has added(Opens in a new window): "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."

The outage may be connected to Twitter’s recent decision to end free access to the company’s API by instead charging users $100 per month. The problem also occurs when Musk has laid off or fired a majority of the employees at the company and shut down certain offices and data centers to save on costs. That’s sparked concerns Twitter lacks the staff and capacity to maintain the