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This is the best summary I could come up with:
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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They only have one site reliability engineer?
Holy crap, that’s awesome.
That person may have one of the worst jobs on earth, and I saw the Dirty Jobs geoduck episode.
That's very shocking. All of Elon's other companies have such a strong reputation for reliable engineering. /s
Elon Logic: One site, one SRE. Genius.
Apparently he didn't do his job, so I guess they'll be firing him now.