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Twitter Glitch Temporarily Disables Site’s Links

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Getty 041113 TwitterSmartphone?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1365699300939Cameron Spencer/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — What if you woke up, tried clicking on links in Twitter and they just didn’t work? Would you panic? Just assume it was you? Call for help?

For over 30 minutes on Thursday morning, all the links on Twitter were down. Starting at around 10 a.m. ET users on Twitter complained of broken links; clicking on the link didn’t open to a new web page and users had to paste the links into a browser window for them to work. The issue was caused by Twitter’s URL shortening service t.co.

Naturally, people took to Twitter to figure out what was going on and joke about the link outage.

But the fun and anxiety ended quickly. Twitter fixed the issue and informed users via its Status blog that all things were back to normal in the clickable text world.

“Some users may have experienced an issue with links contained within Tweets. This issue has been resolved as of 7:10 am PST,” Twitter posted on its blog.

And then, of course, Twitter rejoiced.

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