Embedding Twitter Feed displays Nothing to see here - yet

[mgozdis]

Quick summary

Using the Twitter Block to embed a Twitter Feed no longer displays the feed and displays "Nothing to see here - yet".

Not sure if this is related to recent API changes and restrictions on Twitter's end, but a user reported it and they claimed the feed was working recently. It seems to possibly be an outage or restriction on Twitter's end as 3rd-party plugins are returning feed errors as well.
User report: 6492425-zd-woothemes

The feed in our documentation is also displaying the same error at the time of reporting:

Steps to reproduce

1. Add a Twitter block to a page
2. Configure the block with a Twitter account and embed

What you expected to happen

The feed should be displayed.

What actually happened

The feed displays "Nothing to see here - yet"

Impact

Most (> 50%)

Available workarounds?

No and the platform is unusable

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

Atomic

Logs or notes

No response

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Support References

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• 6492425-zen
• 6495792-zen
• 6501714-zen

[cuemarie]

📌 SCRUBBING : RESULT - Replicated / Could Not Replicate / Uncertain

• Tested on Simple – Replicated
• Tested on Atomic – Replicated
• Replicable outside of Dotcom – Yes

📌 FINDINGS/SCREENSHOTS/VIDEO

• Replicated on Simple, Atomic, and self-hosted sites in the same way.
• I suspect this is related to the more recent limits Twitter is enforcing (see https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672 ). By comparison, the Twitter embed block has not been updated anytime recently: https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/twitter-embed/#changelog

Screenshots/Recordings

Atomic & Simple site behavior:

Self-Hosted:

📌 ACTIONS

• Scrubbed, awaiting assignment
• Reported in /gutenberg: [Block] Twitter - Twitter Feed embeds show no posts WordPress/gutenberg#52260

[cuemarie]

From Core issue I opened:

It's a big bummer for many publishers. However, it might just be a temporary: Elon Musk claims Twitter login requirement just 'temporary' (Source: Mashable)

📌 ACTIONS

• I've removed the Core fix needed label and dropped priority on this to High, mainly because there's not something internal that's blocking this from happening; it's just the current way Twitter works (or doesn't). We'll need to wait and see what happens there.
• Moving to ON HOLD

[AnjanaV93]

Another report in 6495792-zen

[ezebecke]

Another case 6501714-zd-woothemes

[cuemarie]

Thanks y'all. As this is all dependent on Twitter, I'm going to close this to avoid confusion as to whether this is a bug. It's not a WordPress.com bug - it's just Twitter's latest rules. As such, there's no need to track interactions with users on this issue.

Internally, we're working on getting p7DVsv-hfB-p2 updated to be a main post you can refer to for updates on Twitter changes and their impact on WordPress.com and our customers.

📌 ACTIONS

• Closed as this is not a bug we can fix, but a change on the 3rd party's side.

[daria2303]

@cuemarie I got another case with this issue. Shall we update our documentation? https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/twitter-block/

[cuemarie]

Good idea @daria2303 ! I've requested that update on the docs issue here: https://github.com/Automattic/en.support-docs-content/issues/2029