By AFPSAN FRANCISCO: Twitter on Monday suffered a brief but unprecedented outage with users worldwide reporting they could no longer read links to articles from outside websites. An API, or Application Programming Interface, refers to Twitter software that is made available to outside developers to make their own adaptations of the platform. Since Musk took ownership of Twitter, the platform has been riven by chaos, with major advertisers fleeing, threatening the site's main source of revenue. "A small API change had massive ramifications," Musk said in a tweet about the disruption on Monday. SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter on Monday suffered a brief but unprecedented outage with users worldwide reporting they could no longer read links to articles from outside websites.

Source: Indian Express March 07, 2023 23:56 UTC