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BumRushDaShow

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Mon Mar 6, 2023, 02:08 PM Mar 2023

Twitter hit with one of the biggest outages since Elon Musk took over

Last edited Mon Mar 6, 2023, 02:50 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: CNN Business

New York CNN — Twitter’s website was inaccessible for many users on Monday while others reported issues seeing photos and clicking through links in the app, marking one of the most wide-ranging service disruptions to date under new owner Elon Musk. Some users who attempted to load Twitter.com or TweetDeck, a service that allows users to organize their Twitter feed into lists, were met with an error message: “your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint.”

Other users were able to access the site (although it appeared to load slowly), but they were met with the same error message when clicking on links. Outage tracker site DownDetector showed more than 8,000 Twitter outage reports around noon on Monday. For users who were able to access the platform, “Twitter API” was trending as people tweeted about the issues.

“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’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed.” In a separate tweet on Monday, Musk said: “This platform is so brittle (sigh). Will be fixed shortly.” Within about an hour, the issues appeared to have largely resolved. “Things should now be working as normal,” the company tweeted around 1 pm ET.

Monday’s outage marked the second Twitter glitch in less than a week and the third in under a month. Last Wednesday, some Twitter users who opened up their “for you” timeline were greeted with a blank screen and a message saying, “welcome to your timeline,” encouraging them to follow other users to get tweets to show up even if they already followed various accounts. Other users were met with a “Welcome to Twitter!” message as if they had just joined the platform. Three weeks ago, Twitter users encountered various issues with the platform, including the inability to tweet, send direct messages or follow new accounts.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/06/tech/twitter-website-down/index.html



Article updated.

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Twitter hit by another outage as Musk complains platform is 'so brittle'

New York CNN — Twitter’s website was inaccessible for many users on Monday while others reported issues seeing photos and clicking through links in the app, marking one of the most wide-ranging service disruptions to date under new owner Elon Musk.

Some users who attempted to load Twitter.com or TweetDeck, a service that allows users to organize their Twitter feed into lists, were met with an error message: “your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint.” Other users were able to access the site (although it appeared to load slowly), but they were met with the same error message when clicking on links. Outage tracker site DownDetector showed more than 8,000 Twitter outage reports around noon on Monday.

For users who were able to access the platform, “Twitter API” was trending as people tweeted about the issues. “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’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed.” In a separate tweet on Monday, Musk said: “This platform is so brittle (sigh). Will be fixed shortly.”

Monday’s outage marked the second Twitter glitch in less than a week and the third in under a month. Last Wednesday, some Twitter users who opened up their “for you” timeline were greeted with a blank screen and a message saying, “welcome to your timeline,” encouraging them to follow other users to get tweets to show up even if they already followed various accounts. Other users were met with a “Welcome to Twitter!” message as if they had just joined the platform. Three weeks ago, Twitter users encountered various issues with the platform, including the inability to tweet, send direct messages or follow new accounts.
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Twitter hit with one of the biggest outages since Elon Musk took over (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 2023 OP
I wonder what this button does? Blues Heron Mar 2023 #1
Mephiskapheles Kid Berwyn Mar 2023 #17
Awesome! thanks! Blues Heron Mar 2023 #18
When you have hundreds of thousands of bots on your platform louis-t Mar 2023 #2
Musk will solve this with more layoffs IronLionZion Mar 2023 #3
He could outsource some of the work EYESORE 9001 Mar 2023 #7
Already has. yardwork Mar 2023 #20
It's hard to believe he has any employees left who aren't H1-B slaves. sybylla Mar 2023 #15
banned site artemesia23X Mar 2023 #4
The history and trajectory of Twitter under Brittle-Musk is all "oops!?" sanatanadharma Mar 2023 #5
Maybe all the ruskie bots crashed it! SheltieLover Mar 2023 #6
You bought it, you broke it, Elon. tanyev Mar 2023 #8
Brittle egos make brittle corporate decisions. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2023 #9
So brittle that it rarely experienced outages Ms. Toad Mar 2023 #10
Gee, moron, maybe that's why people used to work there Warpy Mar 2023 #11
live look at Twitter HQ LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2023 #12
lol nt orleans Mar 2023 #16
Remember: Make changes, verify, THEN fire the engineers. Not the other way around.... NullTuples Mar 2023 #13
Wonder if they went Full Self-Driving over the weekend. usonian Mar 2023 #14
Way to go, Eloon. area51 Mar 2023 #19

Blues Heron

(8,823 posts)
1. I wonder what this button does?
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 02:12 PM
Mar 2023

`“We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences.`

IronLionZion

(51,253 posts)
3. Musk will solve this with more layoffs
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 02:16 PM
Mar 2023

be super lean, agile, and have no one left to do the work. er... I mean...foreigners are stealing our jobs...er...nobody wants to work anymore.

sybylla

(8,655 posts)
15. It's hard to believe he has any employees left who aren't H1-B slaves.
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 04:50 PM
Mar 2023

That doesn't keep an idiot from idioting, though.

artemesia23X

(8 posts)
4. banned site
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 02:20 PM
Mar 2023

If Musk is frustrated from so much exasperating Twitter troubles he can quit the social network platform. Even with the record breaking financial losses with Tesla he's still a super multi billionaire. Okay most likely wishful thinking quitting Twitter. Oh how I yearn for the good ol' days of Twitter.

sanatanadharma

(4,089 posts)
5. The history and trajectory of Twitter under Brittle-Musk is all "oops!?"
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 02:23 PM
Mar 2023

“We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences.`

Ms. Toad

(38,623 posts)
10. So brittle that it rarely experienced outages
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 02:38 PM
Mar 2023

Until musk bought it.

Perhaps it's not the platform that is brittle.

Warpy

(114,604 posts)
11. Gee, moron, maybe that's why people used to work there
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 02:40 PM
Mar 2023

You know, people who kept it up and running as well as people who kicked misbehaving assholes off it.

usonian

(25,239 posts)
14. Wonder if they went Full Self-Driving over the weekend.
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 02:59 PM
Mar 2023


Will the last engineer out the door please turn off the lights?



P. S. Musk really is stiffing his creditors.
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