Image: The Verge 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. A problem with the URL redirect that...

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. A problem with the URL redirect that captures activity before sending users on their way sent people to a simple error page saying, �This page is down. I scream. You scream. We all scream... for us to fix this page. 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.
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