Twitter’s hyperlinks and photos have been damaged, however now they’re not

Twitter had some issues Monday morning — beginning simply earlier than midday ET, clicking hyperlinks inside tweets didn’t work, and for many individuals, pictures wouldn’t load all through their timelines. It took rather less than an hour for many elements of the location to begin working once more.

In the course of the partial outage, attempting to click on a hyperlink confirmed solely an error message that mentioned “your present API plan doesn’t embrace entry to this endpoint.” Individuals additionally appeared to get the error when visiting the location in Incognito mode or in the event that they weren’t logged in.

The Twitter Help account mentioned that “an inside change that had some unintended penalties” was responsible. Whereas the problems have been taking place, some Verge staffers’ Twitter entry remained unaffected, whereas others weren’t even in a position to load the location.

Regardless of the corporate’s shrinking workforce, Musk has continued to push for brand spanking new options, together with promising adjustments that haven’t but appeared, like final month’s name for advert income sharing with creators who put up on the platform or a plan to introduce a brand new paid tier for its API.

This newest outage occurred solely a few week after Elon Musk laid off a lot of the corporate’s remaining product crew, together with supervisor Esther Crawford, within the newest spherical of cuts since he took possession of Twitter final fall. Twitter additionally had an identical outage almost a month in the past, which Platformer reported occurred as a result of “an worker had inadvertently deleted knowledge for an inside service that units charge limits for utilizing Twitter.”

Replace March sixth, 1:02PM ET: Up to date to mirror that the outage seems to be resolved.