{"id":986727,"date":"2022-02-11T19:08:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/11\/twitter-down-social-media-site-says-its-investigating-errors\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T19:08:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:08:13","slug":"twitter-down-social-media-site-says-its-investigating-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/11\/twitter-down-social-media-site-says-its-investigating-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter down? Social media site says it's investigating errors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Twitter Inc said on Friday it was experiencing an elevated number of application programming interface errors and is currently investigating the issue.<\/p>\n

Application programming interface, or API, is a set ofprotocols for building and integrating application software.<\/p>\n

Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating statusreports from a number of sources, including user-submittederrors on its platform, showed over 48,000 user reports ofoutage.<\/p>\n

The micro-blogging site said on its status page https:\/\/api.twitterstat.usit is yet to determine the scope of impact on its users.<\/p>\n

Some users on Reddit complained of being logged out of their Twitter account while others said they could not send or retrieve tweets.<\/p>\n

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Friday, Bloomberg reported Twitter Inc.’s shares were rising after another weak earnings performance. While it’s tempting to play down the reaction as just a relief rally after the stock’s recent plunge, there are legitimate grounds to be more optimistic about the social media company. Yes, the perennially underachieving Twitter may have a chance.<\/p>\n

Early Thursday, the company reported lackluster audience growth for the three months ended in December. The company’s main user metric – average monetizable daily active usage – came in slightly below analysts’ median estimate. Revenue for the period and guidance for the current quarter also missed Wall Street expectations. On the positive side, the company authorized a $4 billion share buyback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twitter Inc said on Friday it was experiencing an elevated number of application programming interface errors and is currently investigating the issue. Application programming interface, or API, is a set ofprotocols for building and integrating application software. Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating statusreports from a number of sources, including user-submittederrors on its platform, showed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":986728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[820],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}