Twitter was facing one of its first widespread outages of Elon Musk’s tenure on Wednesday. Attempts to send tweets were met with messages reading: “You are over the daily limit for sending tweets.” Some users reported trouble following other accounts.
Attempts to send tweets were met with messages reading: “You are over the daily limit for sending tweets.” Some users reported trouble following other accounts.The website Down Detector, which tracks outages based on user reports, said: “User reports indicate problems at Twitter.”
While some tweets continued to load, many were from users who discovered a workaround to send their posts: scheduling tweets in advance. Some of the functions appeared to be coming back late Wednesday afternoon, as the outage stretched over an hour. Twitter acknowledged the issues in a tweet Wednesday, writing, “Sorry for the trouble. We’re aware and working to get this fixed.”more than two-thirds of Twitter’s staff since November, leading to concerns about the dwindled staff’s ability to keep the site running and restore critical functions once they went down. Musk is the CEO of the site, which he purchased for $44 billion.
Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you. Sorry for the trouble. We're aware and working to get this fixed.
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