Users of X/Twitter experienced a notable link outage in the last few hours, causing clicks on links to lead to error pages. This widespread issue affected the platform, but as of now, it seems to have been resolved, and links on X/Twitter are functioning properly again. Reports of problems began around 1 pm ET, as noted by IGN’s sister site Downdetector. While the main site initially appeared normal, attempting to click on links within articles resulted in an error message, indicating that the page was down. Notably, ads on the platform appeared unaffected by the outage.
Users encountered an error page when attempting to click on links to external websites during the outage.
This marks the second time this year that X/Twitter has experienced such an outage. In early March, TechCrunch reported a similar incident where links and images were disrupted on the platform. The company attributed the outage to “an internal change that had some unintended consequences.” Platformer later revealed that the error was made by the sole engineer remaining on the reliability engineer team after significant layoffs at the company.
As of now, the official X Support account has not issued a statement on the recent outage. X Corp. CEO Linda Yaccarino and X Corp. owner Elon Musk have also not provided any comments.