Most Twitter subdomains are down with the same error.
help.twitter.com, api.twitter.com, developer.twitter.com etc.
Twitter was down
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#42Not just Tweetdeck, all images and videos on the website too, and even the homepage doesn't load.
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#43It does appear that the undocumented api that nitter uses still works and is unblocked by this change as I've been able to access twitter through nitter.
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#44This is actually funny. Just this weekend I was talking to another engineer friend of mine, and we were taking bets as to how long it would be before twitter went down for the last time.
We felt bad for the engineers that are still there, and were actually surprised it's stayed up this long, with all the knowledge that walked out the door. Basic stuff like "where are our servers actually located".
I guess the folks that left loved Twitter enough to leave behind good notes, because even the most well architected systems still need some institutional knowledge when they go down.
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#45In case people are wondering what this is about: All links and images are not working on twitter right now. Seems like they accidentally included their own services in the api blocklist? Sending best of luck to the engineers. The whole twitter saga has given me a good chunk of valuable "lesson learned" over the last weeks and months.. so thanks for that.
Everything seems fine for me when I use the main website.
I see the issue on iOS
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#46In case people are wondering what this is about: All links and images are not working on twitter right now. Seems like they accidentally included their own services in the api blocklist? Sending best of luck to the engineers. The whole twitter saga has given me a good chunk of valuable "lesson learned" over the last weeks and months.. so thanks for that.
Everything seems fine for me when I use the main website.
Are you logged in? Twitter seems to be working normally (i.e. it refreshes) where I'm logged into the browser. But where I'm not, I get the error message everybody's seeing.
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#47Their status page once again shows no issues.
https://api.twitterstat.us/
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Do you just have a gut feeling that they are being abused? I thought the crowd that didn't like working there, left.
I guess if you are on a visa. There are some "office heroes" there for sure, and they will probably realize years later that they were abused.
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#49Incredible that MuskBird lacks the alien technology of checking the log to see which customers are still using the API before turning it off.
Normally, this solution works great.
At Twitter's scale with the number of API users they had, I can't imagine how they'd filter the signal out of the noise.
This is very much a "someone would have had to know we're using our own API to avoid this disaster" scenario, which is an institutional knowledge problem. The kind of problem that gets hard to solve when XX% of your workforce suddenly left to seek new opportunities.