The IT Nerd

As many of you know, I no longer post on Twitter because what a clown show that it has become. But when I did, I used functionality built within WordPress called the Jetpack Social tool to do it. Well, it’s a good thing that I don’t post on Twitter as apparently Elon broke support for the Jetpack Social tool on April 3:

On April 3, Twitter suspended WordPress.com’s access to the Twitter API without warning. As a result, Jetpack Social — the built-in tool that we use to auto-share your posts to social media — is currently broken for Twitter. This means that auto-posting to Twitter via WordPress.com is not actively working. 

Thankfully, this issue is isolated to Twitter, which means that Jetpack Social connections to other platforms are unaffected. Rest assured that you can continue sharing to Tumblr, Facebook, and LinkedIn without interruption.

But then the next day this happened:

The earlier reported outage has been resolved. Twitter is working again for Jetpack Social and all other functionalities that depend on Twitter. All Jetpack Social connections to Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and LinkedIn can be used as usual. 

We are working with Twitter directly to ensure this service keeps running without interruption.

You have to wonder if WordPress paid Elon to get functionality working again. We’ll never know for sure. But the fact is that if you rely on some piece of code to do something that is related to Twitter, it may break without warning. hat alone should make you reconsider your relationship with the platform. Especially if you’re a company or someone who is trying to promote themselves.

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