Twitter was — and is — broken

There’s a famous tweet from Stephen A. Smith that reads, “TAke a look, y’all: IMG_4346.jpeg.” The joke was there was nothing to look at — he’d tweeted, by accident, the string of numbers and letters in a photo’s file name instead of the photo itself.

Monday, as the ESPN personality self-deprecatingly pointed out, it looked as if every other Twitter user had made a similar mistake: Across the website, links didn’t lead anywhere and pictures didn’t load.