<ul><li>Twitter experienced multiple issues as only one person was handling the platform's API, causing links and images to stop loading and users having trouble accessing TweetDeck.</li><li>The company made an internal change as part of a project to shut down free access to the Twitter API, which resulted in unintended consequences and cascading consequences inside the company.</li><li>Twitter's recent change has ended the existence of third-party clients and drastically limited the ability of outside researchers to study the network.</li><li>Elon Musk commented on the recent Twitter outage, stating that a small API change had massive ramifications and that the code stack needs a complete rewrite.</li></ul>

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