that it was facing an elevated number of application programming interface errors, a set of protocols for building and integrating application software.
Over 40,000 users had reported outage of the service on Downdetector, a website which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. Some users on Reddit had complained of being logged out of their Twitter account, while others said they could not send or retrieve tweets. — Reuters