'Rate limit exceeded;' Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide
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Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site or faced difficulty and delays Saturday.
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And it's worse than you think. While this is a "bug", it is based on a feature that Elon is actively rolling out that will be rate limiting how many tweets you're allowed to view in a day.
That seems to be where the current issue stems from, likely something where it's looking at the amount you've read in the previous 24 hours.
lmao, this is fucking hilarious
I can't believe I'm saying this but... based elon?
The feddiverse as a whole might be soon flooded with people tho, prepare yourselves, they comin'
He's removed all of the features of Twitter at this point. It no longer is even the site it was created to be.
And I kinda don't get it, Twitter is easy to embed and has good SEO, much like Reddit. Walling this up is the opposite of helpful.
Same with the rate limit. Interaction and posting is the heartblood of the website and what gives it value.
Making people unaddicted to twitter deliberately is definitely a W
I'm new, still getting the ropes. Honestly I've seen more engagin comments in the last hour than I have on either Reddit or Twitter for the last week.
Right?? It's weird... it's both refreshing and nostalgic at the same time.
So to combat system manipulation... he's giving more power to users that can better manipulate the system.
People think this genius is going to give us colonies on Mars when all he's successfully done is take credit for other people's work, buy a platform for hate with investor's money, and give Twitter investors a deeply painful colonoscopy.
spez already said he loves Elon... hello conspiracy!
I support Elon’s decision on this and hope it becomes permanent. That way, the exodus from Twitter can continue and reputable organizations will stop considering Twitter a valid platform.
From my understanding, the posts/day also includes any comments you load up. So, if you're not careful with the more popular Tweets, you could be rated limited in a very quick manner.
Which would mean people won't bother with popular tweets people are paying money for to get more views
💀 lol
I'd say reduce the limit to 600 for verified accounts and unverified to 60 and new accounts to 30.
The world will be a better place.
This is a bad corporate speak that says, "Don't scrape our data, consume through api and pay upto your necks".
To be fair, I guess this helps people from doom scrolling. Thanks Elon, for getting people to touch grass instead of being glued to social media!
Good thing you can't do this on fedi platforms
This is mad, lol
300 posts, most of which are text are obviously too much traffic for a multi-billion dollar social media site.
So given Reddit's CEO idolizes Musk and his ideas for Twitter, I wonder how long it'll take for Reddit to adopt this.
This is so stupid it's barely believable. Like, he's made some (many) bad moves, but this is literal platform suicide if it isn't reversed immidiately.
Elon gonna Elon
Translation.
Fuck, we can't pay our server costs.