This morning, as with each morning, I had my morning scroll of X. I prefer to atone for what’s been occurring whereas I have been asleep, as the general public I comply with have been lively within the hours that I’ve not. There is a journal I prefer to learn from Japan that was launched at this time, for instance — and all my favourite artists featured within the journal are posting photos on X of their work featured on this month’s situation.
The second I click on on a picture, nonetheless, I’m not taken to a bigger model of the picture, however to the electoral fee web site of the UK political get together, Reform UK, a company I’ve zero curiosity in.
What is going on on?
First, some details about how I suffered the bug. I exploit an iPhone 15 Professional Max, and the official X app. The picture was from a Japanese X account, and had nothing to do with the upcoming UK election. By all accounts, I should not have been taken to the Reform UK web site — so why was I?
I am not the one consumer affected by the bug. Try all the opposite customers reporting the ‘twitter hyperlink bug’, and the way they’re being taken to unrelated hyperlinks when clicking photos and different shortcuts. Curiously, whereas I can replicate the bug reliably simply by tapping round numerous photos, the second you go to display report, it appears to fully cease.
We reached out to X concerning the bug and solely acquired the usually Musk-like auto-response of “Busy now, please verify again later.” Ever for the reason that billionaire has taken over the location, bugs have cropped up all over, from extraordinarily x-rated porn bots to frequent outages. X may not die in a single day, but it surely’s wanting much less and fewer a viable platform to maintain utilizing.
I managed to get to the picture I wished in the long run — however solely after making an attempt to report my expertise.
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