As if publishers and customers didn’t have sufficient causes to rethink their connections to the platform previously often called Twitter, all outgoing hyperlinks from X stopped working Wednesday afternoon. An issue with the URL redirect that captures exercise earlier than sending customers on their means despatched folks to a easy error web page saying, “This page is down. I scream. You scream. We all scream… for us to fix this page. We’ll stop making jokes and get things up and running soon.”
After about an hour or so of that occuring, the issue was fastened, though we haven’t seen any public acknowledgment of the problem from the @Help account, CEO Linda Yaccarino, or X proprietor / CTO Elon Musk.
If this sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of one thing comparable occurred in March, taking down hyperlinks and pictures throughout timelines for round an hour. Twitter blamed that on an “internal change that had some unintended consequences” earlier than Platformer reported the bug occurred due to a mistake by the positioning’s single remaining website reliability engineer, who was working solo after Elon Musk instituted huge layoffs.
Replace December thirteenth, 2:31PM ET: Famous hyperlinks are working once more.