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'Rate limit exceeded;' Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year 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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good thing you can't do this on fedi platforms

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wonder when cable news conglomerates are gonna limit my dad from doom scrolling fox news 🤔

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