Thousands of Twitter users reported problems accessing online links from the social networking platform and other sites today, before the company owned by Elon Musk said it had fixed the latest in a series of bugs.

Musk tweeted that a small change to Twitter’s data access tool had caused the problem.

Links sent by users to other pages and content on the Internet were down today for between half an hour and nearly an hour on the social network that has been experiencing outages for weeks.

Half an hour later, the links were working again and reports of problems on the specialist website Downdetector began to decrease after passing 8,000.

Twitter’s technical support account wrote on the social networking site that the issue has been resolved and that “things are expected to be back to normal.”

Twitter Inc’s support team had earlier said that “certain parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We’ve made an internal change that had some unintended consequences. We’re working on it now and will provide an update when it’s fixed.”

Internet watchdog NetBlocks said the flaw also affected image and video content, making it Twitter’s sixth major outage of 2023, compared with three in the same period last year.