Twitter fixes broken links and images caused by ‘internal change’

Twitter says it has fixed image and link issues on its platform. Earlier today, many users were unable to view links and images on the social network due to an “internal change”. According to reports from third-party web monitoring service Downdetector, the problems began around 11:50 a.m. ET.

“Parts of Twitter may not work as intended at this time,” the company said in a statement. Tweeter. “We made an internal change that had unintended consequences. We are currently working on it and will share an update when it is fixed.

Clicking on a link brought up an error message stating “Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information.”

This latest outage comes about a week after Elon Musk cut more than 200 jobs in the company’s latest round of layoffs. The cuts involved Esther Crawford, head of Twitter Blue, and Martijn de Kuijper of newsletter app Revue.

After Elon Musk took over Twitter last October and laid off thousands of employees, many feared the social network was slowly collapsing. This isn’t the first time Twitter has run into problems in recent months.

Just a few days ago, many parts of the social network, including the timeline, were down for users around the world. Last month, Twitter began showing users that they were exceeding their “daily bitrate limit”, while another bug prevented people from following other users. In December, the social network encountered glitches and showed users a “rate exceeded limit” error.

Update 03/01/2023 1:10 PM ET: The article has been updated to indicate that the issues have been resolved.