{"id":489551,"date":"2023-05-02T07:28:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T05:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=489551"},"modified":"2023-05-03T05:27:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T03:27:22","slug":"twitters-bug-plague-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/489551-twitters-bug-plague-continues.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter&#8217;s bug plague continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter users were forced out of the platform and had trouble logging back in on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2,000 outages were reported, according to Downdetector.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear what is causing the outage, and Twitter did not meaningfully respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Some users that could not log in via their computers were able to access the site from a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>The site has been undergoing multiple technical issues in the months since owner Elon Musk laid off thousands of employees.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, Twitter users reported a different kind of bug.<\/p>\n<p>They found that editing their profiles to say \u201cblue check\u201d caused a check to temporarily appear by their names, even if they hadn\u2019t paid $8 for the Twitter Blue premium service.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/488951-twitter-charging-r18100-per-month-for-verified-organizations-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Twitter charging R18,100 per month for Verified Organizations in South Africa<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The site has been undergoing multiple technical issues in the months since owner Elon Musk laid off thousands of employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":482767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2808,405],"class_list":["post-489551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489553,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489551\/revisions\/489553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}