by As thousands of Twitter users reported problems trying to access the social networking site on Saturday, Elon Musk tweeted that he is limiting the daily number of tweets users can read.
in a cheep On Saturday afternoon, Musk said that verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts a day. For unverified accounts, the number is drastically reduced to 600 posts per day. New unverified users can only access 300 posts per day.
In an update, he said that the frequency caps would soon increase to 8,000 for verified users, 800 for unverified users, and 400 for new unverified ones. About three hours later, Musk tweeted“Now at 10k, 1k and 0.5k.”
Musk said in his original tweet that the change is temporary and was implemented to “address extreme levels of data mining and system manipulation.” Is he last widespread outage since it acquired the social networking site late last year.
Many users who tried to access or post content on the Twitter website or mobile app were met with the error message “Speed limit exceeded” or “Unable to retrieve tweets.” Around 11 a.m. ET, more than 7,300 people reported problems with Twitter to the website fall detector. That number had dwindled to 600 by Saturday night.
Twitter responded to CNBC’s request for comment with its usual poop emoji.
Saturday’s outage is not the first time Twitter has suffered technical difficulties in recent months. In February, users were unable to post to the site for about 90 minutes after receiving a message saying, “You have exceeded your daily Tweet limit.” In March, users were temporarily unable to click links or upload images.
Other blackouts coincided with reports of a data center closure and mass layoffs on Twitter, which Musk claimed were necessary for the financial health of the company.
