Twitter was down last night because there's only 1 engineer left to handle Twitter API
1 year, 9 months ago

Twitter was down last night because there's only 1 engineer left to handle Twitter API

India Today  

Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter and fired more than half of Twitter’s workforce, outages at the platform have been rather common. Twitter’s recent outage Twitter users also reported seeing a cryptic message that read, “Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information.” Twitter’s official support account responded to the outage and a tweet by the handle read, “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. The report further confirms that the internal change that Twitter Support referred to in its tweet was related to Twitter’s project of shutting down its free API access. The tweet by the company’s official developer account read, “Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. And on Monday, the engineer made a ‘bad configuration change’ that led to the Twitter API being ‘broken’, a Twitter employee told the publication.

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X Outage: Elon Musk's social media platform suffers global outage, users unable to browse, access posts
1 year ago

X Outage: Elon Musk's social media platform suffers global outage, users unable to browse, access posts

Firstpost  

Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, had a massive outage as users were unable to browse the platform. As per Downdetector, people were facing issues on the app, website, and Tweetdeck Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, is down again and seems to be going through a global outage. As per Downdetector, the website that tracks when certain popular websites …

Twitter restores old, ‘better’ version of TweetDeck
1 year, 5 months ago

Twitter restores old, ‘better’ version of TweetDeck

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck,” Twitter announced last week, adding that in …

Tweetdeck down: Twitter client not working amid chaos on site
1 year, 5 months ago

Tweetdeck down: Twitter client not working amid chaos on site

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy TweetDeck, a major Twitter client, has stopped working properly. Over the weekend, Twitter …

Is Twitter down? Thousands of users complain of issues with social media platform
1 year, 5 months ago

Is Twitter down? Thousands of users complain of issues with social media platform

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Elon Musk said on Saturday afternoon that temporary reading limits would be applied for …

Twitter now requires users to sign in to view tweets
1 year, 5 months ago

Twitter now requires users to sign in to view tweets

The Hindu  

Twitter will now require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that owner Elon Musk on Friday called a "temporary emergency measure". Musk has previously expressed displeasure at artificial intelligence firms like OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, using Twitter's data to train their large language models. In a letter addressed to Microsoft …

Twitter down for several users across world
1 year, 5 months ago

Twitter down for several users across world

India Today  

Several people across the world complained that the micro-blogging site Twitter was not working for them on Saturday. According to Down Detector, a website that tracks online service disruptions, thousands of users visited the micro-blogging website to discuss their experiences after the global outage hit Twitter. As Twitter users continue to run into the 'Rate Limit exceeded' error message, Elon …

‘Temporary measure’, says Elon Musk as Twitter makes logging in mandatory to view tweets
1 year, 5 months ago

‘Temporary measure’, says Elon Musk as Twitter makes logging in mandatory to view tweets

Hindustan Times  

In a sudden and unannounced update, Twitter has made it mandatory for people to log into their accounts to view tweets and user profiles. This also means that one must have an account on the microblogging website to view tweets, which, until now, could be seen without being logged in or having a profile on the social network. Users discovered …

Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills: Report
1 year, 6 months ago

Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills: Report

The Hindu  

Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract comes up for renewal this month, which could result in the social media company's trust and safety teams being seriously impacted, Platformer reported on Saturday. Before Elon Musk's takeover of the social media platform last year, Twitter signed a multi-year contract with Google related to fighting spam and …

Twitter Outage: Desktop Users Unable To Log In Across The Globe
1 year, 7 months ago

Twitter Outage: Desktop Users Unable To Log In Across The Globe

ABP News  

On Tuesday, Twitter users on desktop were globally logged out of their accounts after a bug hit the Elon Musk-owned microblogging platform. While the first reports came in at around 3:21pm EDT, it appears that the problem is being resolved in phases as more and more users are able to log into their desktop accounts without trouble. In March, Twitter …

Microsoft to cut Twitter from its social media management tool
1 year, 8 months ago

Microsoft to cut Twitter from its social media management tool

The Hindu  

Microsoft will cut Twitter from its social management and advertising tool, prompting Twitter CEO Elon Musk to declare that he would be suing the company. Microsoft updated its website to share that its Smart Campaigns with Multi-platform would no longer support Twitter, meaning that users would not be able to access their Twitter accounts, draft/manage tweets, view past tweets, or …

Twitter API paid may cost developers over ₹34 lakh per month: Report
1 year, 9 months ago

Twitter API paid may cost developers over ₹34 lakh per month: Report

Live Mint  

Twitter's once free Application Programming Interface is now set to cost a staggering $42,000 per month, as reported by a tech outlet earlier this month. Wired, a well-known tech publication, has shared documents indicating that the developer community, researchers, and academia who have been utilizing Twitter's API without any charges for years may now be required to pay to retain …

Twitter API access could cost $42,000 per month at minimum, says report
1 year, 9 months ago

Twitter API access could cost $42,000 per month at minimum, says report

The Hindu  

Access to Twitter’s once free Application Programming Interface could cost users tens of thousands of dollars per month based on the enterprise package that they choose, reported tech outlet Wired on Friday. According to documents shared with Wired, a Small Package will let Twitter subscribers access 50 million tweets for $42,000 a month. A higher priced package will let them …

Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone
54 years, 11 months ago

Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone

Wired  

Since Twitter launched in 2006, the company has acted as a kind of heartbeat for social media conversation. Academics have used free access to Twitter’s API, or application programming interface, in order to access data on the kinds of conversations occurring on the platform, which helps them understand what the online world is talking about. Since 2020, there have been …

Twitter fixes links and images outage that hit thousands of users
1 year, 9 months ago

Twitter fixes links and images outage that hit thousands of users

The Hindu  

Thousands of Twitter users reported problems accessing links from the social media platform and other websites on Monday, before the Elon Musk-owned company said it had fixed the latest in a series of outages. This helpful video explains what happened at Twitter todayhttps://t.co/LCx4jRIiCk — Elon Musk March 7, 2023 Twitter's support account tweeted later on Monday that the issue was …

Laid off by Elon Musk, Twitter engineer struggling to find a new job
1 year, 9 months ago

Laid off by Elon Musk, Twitter engineer struggling to find a new job

India Today  

The tech job market has been in a state of flux for the past couple of months and companies have been firing employees left, right and center. Ex-Twitter engineer’s take on tech job market A Twitter engineer, who was fired by Elon Musk, said that the tech job market is ‘hot garbage’ right now and that he has faced a …

Twitter fixes links outage due to ‘internal change’ that hit thousands of users
1 year, 9 months ago

Twitter fixes links outage due to ‘internal change’ that hit thousands of users

Hindustan Times  

Thousands of Twitter users reported problems accessing links from the social media platform and other websites on Monday, before the Elon Musk-owned company said it had fixed the latest in a series of outages. Musk tweeted that a small change with Twitter's data-access tool had caused the problem. Internet observatory NetBlocks said the issue had affected image and video content …

Twitter hit by biggest malfunction since Musk deal
1 year, 9 months ago

Twitter hit by biggest malfunction since Musk deal

The Telegraph  

Twitter suffered its biggest malfunction since being bought by Elon Musk on Monday night after an internal change caused pictures and links on the social media site to stop working. Error messages displayed after clicking links said: “Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint” and the error code 467. We’re working on this now and will …

Twitter was down for hours after Elon Musk fired 200 employees, now fixed and tweets showing up
1 year, 9 months ago

Twitter was down for hours after Elon Musk fired 200 employees, now fixed and tweets showing up

India Today  

Twitter is down again. This is nothing new as the platform has faced multiple outages in the last few months, especially after Elon Musk acquired the platform and fired thousands of employees. And Twitter users believe that the platform is down because Musk fired some engineers in the latest round of layoffs. Twitter CEO Elon Musk recently said that he, …

Twitter down for hours, many users furious: Know what happened
1 year, 9 months ago

Twitter down for hours, many users furious: Know what happened

India TV News  

Twitter, the known microblogging social media platform was reported unresponsive by a number of users. More than a million users across the world reported their experience as another major global outage, leaving them unable to login to their accounts or post any tweets respectively. Find some people and topics to follow now.” Image Source : PIXABAYTwitter down for hours, many …

Twitter goes down days after Musk fires 200 staff
1 year, 9 months ago

Twitter goes down days after Musk fires 200 staff

The Telegraph  

Twitter’s main timelines have gone down for thousands of internet users as the social network endures more glitches under Elon Musk’s leadership. The social network’s “For You” and “Following” tabs, where users view other people’s Tweets, were not loading for thousands of people on Wednesday morning. The outage is the latest wobble for the social network since its acquisition by …

Twitter Outage Reported In India And Other Countries
1 year, 10 months ago

Twitter Outage Reported In India And Other Countries

News 18  

Twitter stopped working for many users on Thursday as people were not unable to see updated tweets on their feed. The problem seems to have surfaced around 10:00 PM IST as per the live tracker downdetector.in and even the global version of the website has checked out for Twitter outage around the same timeframe. As per the details given here, …

Musk’s at it again
1 year, 10 months ago

Musk’s at it again

Live Mint  

Twitter chief Elon Musk has lately been in the news for some outrageous actions. This week, as reported, he had his engineers “fix” the platform’s “bugs” to boost impressions of his tweets after one of them on the Super Bowl didn’t do so well as a tweet by US President Joe Biden—also on the baseball league—despite having many times more …

Twitter down for thousands of users
1 year, 10 months ago

Twitter down for thousands of users

The Hindu  

Thousands of Twitter users were unable to access the social media platform on Wednesday, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.com. Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. Twitter Inc. did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment and the social network's status page showed that all systems …

Twitter's plan to charge for crucial API tool prompts outcry
1 year, 10 months ago

Twitter's plan to charge for crucial API tool prompts outcry

The Hindu  

In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, thousands of volunteer software developers have been using a crucial Twitter tool to comb the platform for calls for help — including from people trapped in collapsed buildings — and connect people with rescue organisations. The loss of free API access means an added challenge for the thousands of …

Twitter’s plan to charge for crucial tool prompts outcry
1 year, 10 months ago

Twitter’s plan to charge for crucial tool prompts outcry

Associated Press  

In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, thousands of volunteer software developers have been using a crucial Twitter tool to comb the platform for calls for help — including from people trapped in collapsed buildings — and connect people with rescue organizations. “For Turkish coders working with Twitter API for disaster monitoring purposes, this is particularly …

Twitter CEO Elon Musk Announces Updates To The Platform, Including Improved Retweet Reach
1 year, 10 months ago

Twitter CEO Elon Musk Announces Updates To The Platform, Including Improved Retweet Reach

ABP News  

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday said that the Twitter team "completed" several works "over night", including improving the reach of retweets and "removed filter causing false negatives". "Removed height penalty affecting tweets with pics/video, increased # of recommended tweets, better tracking of dropped tweets, removed filter causing false negatives, removed penalty if user follows author, improved reach of retweet," …

Twitter To Charge Developers $100 For Monthly Access To Basic API Tier
1 year, 10 months ago

Twitter To Charge Developers $100 For Monthly Access To Basic API Tier

ABP News  

A week after Twitter announced shutting down free access to the API, the microblogging platform on Thursday said that it will charge $100 per month for the basic tier of API. The company shared the information on Twitter via its Twitter Dev account, saying: "We're excited to announce an extension of the current free Twitter API access through February 13." …

Twitter Adds Limits To Daily Tweets, DMs, Follows. Could The Latest Outage Be A Result?
1 year, 10 months ago

Twitter Adds Limits To Daily Tweets, DMs, Follows. Could The Latest Outage Be A Result?

ABP News  

Twitter users across the globe have been complaining of being unable to tweet, follow new accounts, or even use Tweetdeck on Thursday. As per Twitter’s Help page, the microblogging platform has put in several usage limits. The company said on its help page, “Please note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive …

Instagram and Twitter appear to suffer outage as users find they are unable to post
1 year, 10 months ago

Instagram and Twitter appear to suffer outage as users find they are unable to post

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Twitter and Instagram appear to be suffering outages after thousands of users reported …

‘Twitter should be back up later tonight’: Elon Musk
1 year, 10 months ago

‘Twitter should be back up later tonight’: Elon Musk

Live Mint  

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said that the microblogging site should be back up later today after several users complained of not being able to tweet on Wednesday, prematurely encountering a message that said "You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets." The outage comes as billionaire owner Musk slashed Twitter's staff since taking over the company in October, raising …

Some Twitter users are unable to post, told they’re ‘over daily limit’
1 year, 10 months ago

Some Twitter users are unable to post, told they’re ‘over daily limit’

Deccan Chronicle  

Some Twitter Inc. users were unable to send tweets on Wednesday afternoon, instead getting an automated message saying they were “over the daily limit for sending Tweets,” even for users who hadn’t posted yet for the day. Downdetector, a site that tracks technical outages for apps, showed a spike in user reports of trouble on the site, touching 9,500 just …

Twitter scrambles to fix meltdown as many unable to tweet
1 year, 10 months ago

Twitter scrambles to fix meltdown as many unable to tweet

Associated Press  

Many Twitter users found themselves unable to tweet, follow accounts or access their direct messages on Wednesday as the Elon Musk-owned platform experienced a slew of widespread technical problems. Users also had trouble when they tried to follow another Twitter user, getting a message “You are unable to follow more people at this time” with a link to the company’s …

Some Twitter users unable to post as platform hit by glitch
1 year, 10 months ago

Some Twitter users unable to post as platform hit by glitch

Al Jazeera  

Thousands of users faced glitches in posting, receiving messages that they had exceeded a daily limit of tweets. Thousands of Twitter users complained on Wednesday they were unable to post messages, following which they were told that they had exceeded a daily limit of tweets. Twitter’s billionaire owner Elon Musk tweeted early on Thursday that there were multiple “internal and …

Elon Musk accepts Twitter not working properly, says company facing internal and external issues
1 year, 10 months ago

Elon Musk accepts Twitter not working properly, says company facing internal and external issues

India Today  

A number of Twitter users have recently pointed out that they are facing several glitches while using the micro-blogging platform. Elon Musk has now confirmed that Twitter has indeed been facing some issues today and they should be 'fully back on track' soon. Elon Musk admits Twitter's glitches While responding to a tweet about Twitter and its glitches, Musk wrote, …

'Sorry for the trouble'- Twitter after global outage; says working to fix it
1 year, 10 months ago

'Sorry for the trouble'- Twitter after global outage; says working to fix it

India TV News  

Twitter users in several countries including India were facing trouble while using the microblogging site on Thursday morning. Twitter Deck services down Several users in India complained of 'Twitter Deck' outage since yesterday and the trouble extended on Thursday morning when other features started not working. Accounts also had trouble when they tried to follow another Twitter user, getting a …

Twitter to continue provide free API access to good bot accounts- claims Elon Musk
1 year, 10 months ago

Twitter to continue provide free API access to good bot accounts- claims Elon Musk

India TV News  

Twitter CEO- Elon Musk has announced that Twitter would enable a " free, write-only Application Programming Interface for bots providing good content." Previously, Elon Musk revealed that the company planned to charge approximately $100 per month for bots to operate on the social media giant Twitter. Free API access for bots on Twitter allows approved bot accounts to use Twitter's …

Twitter to provide free write-only API for providing 'good' content: Know-how?
1 year, 10 months ago

Twitter to provide free write-only API for providing 'good' content: Know-how?

India TV News  

Elon Musk has stated that Twitter will enable a free write-only Application Programming Interface for bots providing good content to the micro-blogging platform. Musk tweeted "Responding to feedback, Twitter will enable a light, write-only API for bots providing good content that is free" Earlier, Twitter also made it official that it will stop offering free access to its API from …

Twitter API will no longer be free
1 year, 10 months ago

Twitter API will no longer be free

The Hindu  

Access to Twitter’s Application Programming Interface will no longer be free, according to an update by Twitter’s CEO Elon Musk. The verified Twitter Dev account tweeted that access to the free API would stop from February 9, to be replaced by “a paid basic tier.” Mr. Musk also said on February 3 that free access to the API was being …

Twitter's new developer rules ban 3rd party apps
1 year, 11 months ago

Twitter's new developer rules ban 3rd party apps

India TV News  

Micro-blogging platform Twitter has quietly updated its "Developer Agreement" to ban third-party clients, almost a week after it blocked the apps' access to its platform. The new rules mentioned that users can not use Twitter's application programming interface or content to "create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications," reports The Verge. …

Tweetbot faces an outage again: Know what happened
1 year, 11 months ago

Tweetbot faces an outage again: Know what happened

India TV News  

Tweetbot, a third-party Twitter tool was reportedly down again. Tweetbot had not heard anything from Twitter, so it ace decided to start using new API keys and see if it fixes the problem, Haddad explained. "Twitter API restricts new apps to low limits," iOS developer Mysk explained on Twitter. Last week, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said that the micro-blogging platform's …

Twitter Third-Party Access Blocked, Users Not Able To Login Via TweetBot And More
1 year, 11 months ago

Twitter Third-Party Access Blocked, Users Not Able To Login Via TweetBot And More

News 18  

The issues at Twitter since Elon Musk took over continue to pile up this week. People are not able to log into their accounts using third-party apps like TweetBot, Talon and Felix for macOS, Android and iOS versions, respectively. Reports hint that Twitter might have intentionally blocked access to these third-party apps for Twitter logins, as none of them is …

Twitter outage hits thousands of users globally
1 year, 11 months ago

Twitter outage hits thousands of users globally

The Hindu  

Twitter Inc. suffered a major outage on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of users globally unable to access the popular social media platform or use its key features. Others took to Twitter to share updates and memes about the service disruption, with #TwitterDown trending as a hashtag on the social media site. Hundreds of Twitter employees quit the social media …

Twitter outage hits thousands of users globally
1 year, 11 months ago

Twitter outage hits thousands of users globally

Deccan Chronicle  

Twitter Inc suffered a major outage on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of users globally unable to access the popular social media platform or use its key features. Others took to Twitter to share updates and memes about the service disruption, with #TwitterDown trending as a hashtag on the social media site. Hundreds of Twitter employees quit the social media …

Backend server architecture changes behind Twitter outage, says Musk
1 year, 11 months ago

Backend server architecture changes behind Twitter outage, says Musk

India TV News  

As Twitter went down for several users globally including in India, the CEO Elon Musk has said that the outage was because of backend changes to make the micro-blogging platform faster. Musk said that "significant backend server architecture changes" have been rolled out. The platform showed error messages to several users, "Something went wrong, but don't fret -- it's not …

Elon Musk mocks trolls, tweets ’Wasn’t Twitter supposed to die by now...’
2 years, 1 month ago

Elon Musk mocks trolls, tweets ’Wasn’t Twitter supposed to die by now...’

Live Mint  

Tuesday saw Elon Musk, the controversial Twitter chief, poke fun at the trolls who had predicted Twitter's demise shortly after his controversial takeover. Musk recently came under fire on social media for mass layoffs and his decision to charge users of the Twitter platform $8 to have their accounts verified. Musk defended his decision to fire staff members by claiming …

“Twitter to start breaking down soon,” say employees after mass resignation, as core, ‘critical’ teams leave
2 years, 1 month ago

“Twitter to start breaking down soon,” say employees after mass resignation, as core, ‘critical’ teams leave

Firstpost  

Twitter’s entire finance and payroll department have left along with core engineering teams, in response to Elon Musk’s ultimatum for Twitter 2.0. Reports have suggested that most teams at Twitter have decided to put in their papers and resign voluntarily, instead of being a part of what Elon Musk is calling “Twitter 2.0.” The people who decided to resign, or …

How likely is a complete Twitter meltdown?
2 years, 1 month ago

How likely is a complete Twitter meltdown?

NPR  

How likely is a complete Twitter meltdown? Enlarge this image toggle caption NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images People are singing their last birdsongs on Twitter, as some brace for what they fear will be a final farewell to the platform whose workforce has shrunk dramatically in the few weeks it's been owned by billionaire Elon Musk. Sponsor …

Elon Musk fires Twitter’s app developer via tweet; here’s why
2 years, 1 month ago

Elon Musk fires Twitter’s app developer via tweet; here’s why

Live Mint  

After laying off 50 percent of employees and thousands of contractors, the new Twitter CEO Elon Musk has now fired a member of Android app developer team, but this time via a tweet. The person whose employment was terminated by Musk is an Android developer named Eric Frohnhoefer who had stated in his tweet that Musk's assessment of Twitter being …

Elon Musk says Twitter to soon enable organisations to identify their associated accounts
2 years, 1 month ago

Elon Musk says Twitter to soon enable organisations to identify their associated accounts

The Hindu  

Twitter's billionaire owner Elon Musk on November 13 said that Twitter will soon enable organisations to identify Twitter accounts associated with them as the new Twitter owner continues to find ways to limit fake accounts on the platform. The social media platform paused its recently announced $8 blue check subscription service on Friday as fake accounts mushroomed, and new owner …

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