{"id":500031,"date":"2023-07-12T17:16:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=500031"},"modified":"2023-07-12T17:18:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:18:29","slug":"twitter-hit-by-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/500031-twitter-hit-by-problems.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter hit by problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter suffered problems on Wednesday afternoon, with users reporting that tweets wouldn’t load when browsing profiles directly, and the notifications page and trends being broken.<\/p>\n

Downdetector<\/a><\/strong> showed a spike in outage reports that began at around 16:15 on Wednesday, 12 July 2023, with most reports referring to problems with the website, feed, and server connection.<\/p>\n

Users have reported a broad range of issues, with some only seeing a “Welcome to Twitter!” message in their feed and others unable to view tweets when navigating to the poster’s profile.<\/p>\n

Others have reported receiving “Something went wrong. Try reloading.” and “Something went wrong, but don’t fret \u2014 it’s not your fault.” error messages when navigating the site.<\/p>\n

The platform’s Explore and Trends elements also appear problematic, as they only populate sporadically.<\/p>\n

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When visiting a Twitter profile directly, pinned Tweets still showed up, but any other Tweets from the user failed to load.<\/p>\n

Paradoxically, several people have taken to Twitter to complain about the outage.<\/p>\n

“Twitter kinda broken for anyone else??” asked<\/a><\/strong> Complexly and DFTBA.com CEO Hank Green.<\/p>\n

“Lol, it told me this tweet didn\u2019t get tweeted but here it is!” he posted<\/a><\/strong> 25 minutes later.<\/p>\n

Responses to his Tweet include “It’s being weird for me too” and “Yup. Certifiably broken atm [at the moment].”<\/p>\n

“Ok glad my Twitter not the only one tweakin (sic),” another user posted.<\/p>\n

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The issues come at a tough time for Twitter, with Meta Platforms-owned Instagram having recently launched its Twitter rival Threads.<\/p>\n

Threads officially went live<\/a><\/strong> on Android and iOS on Thursday, 6 July 2023, and Twitter has already threatened to sue<\/a><\/strong> it for using the company’s intellectual property.<\/p>\n

The Twitter rival quickly shot to 100 million subscribers<\/a><\/strong> within a few days.<\/p>\n

However, it should be noted that sign-ups should not be directly compared with monthly active users, as not all those who gave Threads a try will be converted into regular monthly users.<\/p>\n

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Now read: South African lawyers use ChatGPT to argue case \u2014 get nailed after it makes up fake info<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Users were getting a range of error messages and were unable to load Tweets when navigating to a specific profile. The issues appear to have been resolved for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":482767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[59487,35,60669,405],"class_list":["post-500031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-downdetector","tag-headline","tag-threads","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500031"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500041,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500031\/revisions\/500041"}],"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=500031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}