Yesterday Twitter started limiting the number of tweets people with accounts can read. Once they reach that limit all tweets and twitter functions are blocked (including Direct Messages). This is because Twitter are having some technical problems and need to limit load on the site until that is resolved. It’s meant to be temporary but I’ve not seen a timeframe for restoring full function.
There have been other problems too. A few days ago people started reporting that they couldn’t see any tweets if not logged in or if they didn’t have an account. And long before hitting the tweet limit, people were experiencing intermittent and seemingly random problems with using twitter on Sunday.
This is on top of longer problems with twitter that mean embedded tweets no longer work on The Standard in posts or comments.
What this means for The Standard is that commenters may not be able to see twitter content if there is only a link supplied. This also affects moderation.
In the meantime if you want to reference content on twitter, can you please copy and past all of the text, as well as the direct link as per usual (click on the date/time stamp, then copy the URL from the address bar).
Where it gets tricky is if the tweet also contains images, GIFs, or videos. Twitter images still seem to work on The Standard. To post them in a comment, please follow these instructions for twitter on a browser,
If the image is overlarge, you can do this,
Feel free to ask questions or add knowledge/updates to what is happening with twitter. I’ll update the post as needed.
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