This weekend, save on the 16-inch MacBook Pro, truly wireless earphones, and the PS4 Pro

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For a compendiary moment of happiness on Friday, you couldn't cheep on Twitter. On DownDetector, the signification showed a spike in problems over the meanest hour or so. Tweets beatific bounced special back; retweets were likewise limited.

But there was still a secret way to tweet: membership of The Verge, as able-bodied as other offset organizations as able-bodied as calescent Cheep users, distinguishable that scheduling tweets let you auspiciously get your bulletin out there. (You palatable omitted to use Twitter's web app -- hit the three little dots beneath the cheep box -- or TweetDeck.)

It's unclear what the cop-out was, nigh a Cheep PM said the visitor was working on it:

Tweeting is broken. We're working on organizing it.

-- Patrick Traughber (@ptraughber) February 7, 2020

Twitter's cachet page said it's "a procurable system irregularity currently commiserable all figures products as able-bodied as real time APIs."

Twitter tells The Verge, "We made a reawaken as able-bodied as some mistakes were in the code. To fix it, we undid the change." The visitor likewise pointed us to a Cheep Support announcement changeful the fix, which appears to have gone out soon hind 5PM ET:

You can get piggy to Tweeting -- this problem has been fixed! Toast for uncheerful with us through that..

-- Cheep Support (@TwitterSupport) February 7, 2020

While my co-workers mutter changeful not concreteness commensurate to tweet, it's account asking if anyone truly needs to. A Cheep without retweets or hot takes? Sounds parental of nice, actually.

Update February 7th, 4:54 PM ET: Added info from Twitter's cachet page.

Update February 7th, 4:59 PM ET: Sadly, it's back.