X outage breaks all outgoing links, again::An outage on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, caused the site to display an error message when users tried to click outgoing links.
Most journalists are hopelessly addicted to Twitter. Microblogging is already designed to be addictive, but journalists' entire careers hinge on how much engagement they get, so those little engagement-rewards hit hard. They're going to keep writing about the platform until they're forced to quit it because it's the main thing that they use to interact with the world. Tto them, every twitter change is fucking earth shattering.
It's really crazy how much the people who inform the rest of us about the world have had their own reality warped by the platform.
He's an incredibly impulsive malignant narcissist demanding sweeping changes without considering whether they're feasible, amongst other ways by reacting to criticism in real time and often in the stupidest ways possible.
He's not technically handicapped, but he has the emotional maturity and judgment of a toddler who's overdue for a nap.
As if publishers and users didn’t have enough reasons to reconsider their connections to the platform formerly known as Twitter, all outgoing links from X stopped working Wednesday afternoon.
We’ll stop making jokes and get things up and running soon.”
After about an hour or so of that happening, the problem was fixed, although we haven’t seen any public acknowledgment of the issue from the @Support account, CEO Linda Yaccarino, or X owner / CTO Elon Musk.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because something similar happened in March, taking down links and images across timelines for around an hour.
Twitter blamed that on an “internal change that had some unintended consequences” before Platformer reported the bug occurred because of a mistake by the site’s single remaining site reliability engineer, who was operating solo after Musk instituted massive layoffs.
Update December 13th, 2:31PM ET: Noted links are working again.
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