Thousands of Twitter users reported being unable to use the social media app on Saturday, posting hashtags like “TwitterDown” and “RateLimitExceeded.”
The power outage began Saturday morning around 8am ET and lasted through the afternoon. According to Down Detector. As of 1:00 pm, the website had over 7,000 outage reports.
Some users reported issues such as not being able to retrieve tweets or seeing the error message “Sorry, you’re rate limited. Please try again later.”
Elon Musk, who took over the platform in 2022, tweeted around 1 p.m. about post viewing restrictions “to combat extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation,” saying the following restrictions were temporarily applied: T: Verified accounts are limited to 6000 posts viewed. Unverified accounts are limited to 600 posts per day, and new unverified accounts are limited to 300 posts per day.
Late in the afternoon, he tweeted that “Rate limits will be increased soon,” and increased the daily post limit to 8,000 for verified accounts, 800 for unverified accounts, and 800 for new unverified accounts. raised to 400. By evening, he said he had raised the limit “now to 10,000, 1,000, 0.5,000.”
“Hey Elon, my Twitter isn’t working,” others tweeted directly to Mr. Musk.
Twitter users faced a widespread service outage in March, one of the biggest outages since Mr. Musk took office. Over 8,000 users have reported problems.
