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'Rate limit exceeded;' Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide (www.cbsnews.com)
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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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[–] [S] 81 points 3 years ago (28 children)

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.

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  • [–] 67 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    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'

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  • [–] [S] 51 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    He's removed all of the features of Twitter at this point. It no longer is even the site it was created to be.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    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 rate limited in a very quick manner.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    this. I simply can't use twitter right now. and some people were saying you can hit 600 tweets in just 15 mins of scrolling. which would basically kill my twitter use entirely. if it continues good chance I stop using twitter.

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