Twitter glitches as links, images fail to load for users worldwide

Gulf Today Report

Twitter experienced a major outage, with users from all over the world reporting that they could not open links to websites.

The account of the company's technical department explained in a tweet: "Some features in Twitter may not work as expected at the present time," indicating that this is due to an "unintended defect" caused by an update to the platform.

The company said, “We’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed.”

Trying to visit Twitter’s help page on Monday led to an error message that says "Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint” and displays a link to a software developer page that also doesn’t work.

Elon Musk tweeted Monday: "This platform is so brittle (sigh). Will be fixed shortly.”

According to Downdetector, users began reporting the outages shortly before noon US Eastern time. Internet access watchdog NetBlocks said "Twitter is currently experiencing international slowdowns and outages affecting many users,” and noted that it was also affecting image and video content. Some users were not able to see the images that other users were posting.