Elon Musk says Twitter has applied 'temporary limits' after thousands of users reported problems accessing the platform and getting hit with 'rate limit' error messages
“Rate Limit Exceeded” and “#TwitterDown” are the two top trending topics on the app in the US, for those who have use of it. The former had over 40,000 tweets as of Saturday noon. Reports of outages began around 8 am EST, according to DownDetector, and shot up through the morning. As of noon EST, DownDetector showed more than 7,400 outage reports across the website.
New unverified accounts are at 300 posts a day. Musk began offering a blue verification check mark for users who sign up for its Twitter Blue subscription service to grow revenue. Many expressed their frustration ith the connection problems. Other trending topics in the US included: “Wtf twitter” and “Thanks Elon.” Just yesterday, Twitter appeared to be restricting access to its platform for anyone not logged into an account.
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