Some Twitter services are down including t.co links, images, and TweetDeck, producing the error “your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint”
Links are completely busted on Twitter at the minute across the company's website and mobile apps. Tweets: @daveleeft , @taylorlorenz , @khurtizz , @dannyjpalmer , @kwestin , @mcwm , @carnage4life , @daveleeft , @khurtizz , and @pbump Tweets: Dave Lee / @daveleeft : Elon's on top of it https://t.co/... Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Did Elon just break all links on Twitter... Curtis Moldrich / @khurtizz : I see tweetdeck is down https://t.co/... Danny Palmer / @dannyjpalmer : Linking to anything from Twitter is broken right now. “Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint.” I'd post an image, but they're currently all broken and not displaying right now too. 🤷♂️ Ken Westin / @kwestin : Thanks @elonmusk now you can't even post links on Twitter. I'm not paying. Eat a rocket. https://t.co/... Mike Murphy / @mcwm : on the bright side, at least Elon found a way to stop links to misinformation being shared on twitter Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Twitter broken again? Business genius at work. Dave Lee / @daveleeft : I don't think it will take long to fix. Find whatever token/account/whatever was being used for links and images and restore full API use. Should be a quick job. In theory. Curtis Moldrich / @khurtizz : Just pretend what the pics look like https://t.co/... Philip Bump / @pbump : Oh man, did https://t.co/... break?
Context & Ripple Effects
This is the second global Twitter disruption in under a week, following timeline failures across web and mobile on March 2 — but this one is different in kind, because the error users see is an API billing message: "your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint." That points to internal Twitter services now sitting behind the same metered API gating that in January silently broke Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Fenix, Talon and other third-party apps without explanation.
The significance is that Twitter's own first-party features — t.co link wrapping, image delivery, TweetDeck — appear to depend on the same endpoint-access layer it began restricting for outside developers, so a paywall decision made against third parties is now breaking the core product itself.
First-order effects
- Every link posted on Twitter is broken across the website and mobile apps, because t.co wrapping can't resolve through the restricted endpoint — hitting the entire user base at once, not a subset.
- TweetDeck loses images and core functionality, taking out the tool most used by journalists and power users like Dave Lee, Taylor Lorenz, and Danny Palmer, who documented the failure in real time.
Second-order effects
- The visible "API plan" error hands developers and users evidence for their January complaint that Twitter cuts off access without communication — deepening distrust just as the company needs the developer ecosystem and advertiser confidence it has been eroding.
- With external-link distribution already being deprioritized per the platform's own policies, broken outbound links compound the penalty on publishers who still rely on Twitter for referral traffic, accelerating their search for alternatives.
Third-order effects
- If first-party features are now riding metered API infrastructure, Twitter's reliability becomes structurally coupled to its monetization decisions — every future change to API tiers carries product-breakage risk, a failure mode the string of 2023 incidents (January app cutoffs, this outage) suggests the leaner engineering org cannot absorb.
- The pattern points toward a platform that treats access itself as the product — charging for endpoints while its own free tier decays — which historically pushes professional users toward tools and networks whose access contracts are explicit rather than subject to unilateral revision.
The trend: Twitter under Musk is converting open API access into a metered product, and the same gating now threatens the reliability of its own consumer features.