Shortly after noon the website of Twitter and some functions of its application stopped working. On social networks, users reported several bugs and in the offices of the microblogging network there were despair
It was the longest fall of the year and shook the foundations of Twitter since Elon Musk is in the lead and everything indicates that it was an error caused by one of the few engineers remaining in the company, according to revela The Verge.
Users who entered Twitter.com they were seeing a mysterious error: “Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, see” and in fact this message is atypical, since the normal thing could be the image of the balle inviting to be patient.
This set of letters, numbers and codes sure puzzled Twitter users, but alerted programming connoisseurs that there was something serious behind it.
The explanation of Twitter and a sign
Twitter He immediately posted a flimsy explanation: “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now.” “We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences,” the message added.
Well, the change in question was part of a project to close free access to the Twitter API, Platformer and that is now confirmed.
On February 1, the company announced that will no longer support free access to its API, which ended the existence of third-party clients and drastically limited the ability of external researchers to study the network. The company has been building a new paid API for developers to work with.
The images also stopped loading. Other users reported that they were unable to access TweetDeck, Twitter’s proprietary client for professional users.
a new engineer
The Verge and other specialists believe that the cause of Twitter’s fall would be Elon Musk’s cuts to the company, especially specialized personnel who knew the platform like the back of their hand.
“We are told that only one site reliability engineer has been hired on the project. On Monday, the engineer made an incorrect configuration change that basically broke the Twitter API,” a Twitter employee revealed.
The change had cascading consequences within the company, bringing down much of Twitter’s internal tools along with public APIs.
At Slack (internal staff communication manager), engineers responded with harsh words like “shit” and “Twitter is down, everything,” as they scrambled to fix the issue.
“Elon Musk was furious”
And how do you think the main owner of Twitter would be? Well, Elon Musk was very upset and furious, especially since he was constantly mentioned and labeled behind the problem.
“A small API change had massive ramifications,” Musk later tweeted. After Twitter investor Marc Andreessen posted a screenshot showing the company’s API flaws trending on the site.
“The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. Ultimately, it will need a complete rewrite.”
Some current employees sympathize with that view, which places at least part of the blame for Twitter’s woes on technical glitches that predate Musk’s ownership of the company.
Today, the fear is that this sad scenario will repeat itself at any moment and that Twitter will have untouchable zones and fall like a game of cards.
