Update: Twitter’s 45-minute breakdown this morning was blamed on a breakdown in the social media site’s technology that broke links to third party websites. Twitter owner Elon Musk blamed Twitter’s infrastructure and tweeted, “This platform is so brittle (sigh). Will be fixed shortly,” CEO Elon Musk wrote. He added that a “small API change had massive ramifications. The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. Will ultimately need a complete rewrite.”
Twitter goes down early Monday and users blame owner Elon Musk
The number of Downdetector users reporting an issue with Twitter has declined sharply. This has left the graph looking like the stock chart of Game Stop or any other of those shares manipulated by Robin Hood subscribers. At 1:27 pm EST, the number of Twitter users reporting an issue with Downdetector had declined to 250. That’s much lower than 10,000 but still indicates that there is a problem.