New setback for Twitter. Since around 7 p.m. Spanish Peninsula time, the social network has started to crash and display error messages that make no sense to the average user. And this is not the first time.
For months, and almost since the service changed its name to
However, these are known issues and something that the typical X user seems to have already accepted as commonplace. The bug happening today is completely new and it has caused a lot of confusion.
Twitter crashes again
Specifically, the failure occurs when we try to click on a link in a Twitter message, either directly through the link or through the box that usually appears below the message. If we try to click on the link, instead of the page we want to visit, a Twitter page will appear that says “This page is down.” Otherwise, the message doesn’t say anything useful, because instead of stating what’s going on. , Twitter prefers to joke about users who are loudly demanding that the problem be resolved.
Everything indicates that the problem occurs with Twitter’s address shortener, called t.co. When we publish a tweet with a link, the address is automatically shortened to take up less space in memory; To do this, Twitter created its own shortener, after years of users using alternatives like Bit.ly.
The big advantage of this system is that Twitter is able to display the links instead of the t.co address; and that’s why most people don’t know that their links are redirected through the company’s servers. Now they know, because the system is clearly broken and doesn’t allow them to enter links. Most affected are account owners who tend to post lots of links, as well as media outlets and websites that rely on Twitter for their visits.
Recall that a few weeks ago Elon Musk made the controversial decision not to display the titles of links shared via X, displaying only the image obtained from the page; However, the company backtracked after complaints about deteriorating usability.
For the moment, X has not made any statement on this subject, almost an hour after the first errors began.
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