Twitter was broken due to an API issue (updated)
Links and images were completely busted on Twitter for a spell on Monday across the company’s website and mobile apps. Clicking on a link brought up an error message that read “Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information.” As it happens, that link was broken for a while. A similar error message was appearing for some users when they tried to access TweetDeck.
Service gradually seemed to be coming back as of 12:43PM ET. Links seem to be working once again and images are popping back up in the timeline. TweetDeck is also back online.
Twitter’s last major outage was less than a week ago, just days after the company laid off dozens more employees. Twitter no longer has a communications department that can be contacted for comment. Oddly, enough, its API status page has a message reading “all systems operational.”
“Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences,” Twitter managed to share on its Support account at 12:19PM ET. “We’re working on this now and will …read more
