On Saturday, visitors to its website were met with error messages like “Rate limit exceeded” and “Tweets cannot be retrieved.” It came on the heels of another issue on Friday that involved users who weren’t logged in redirection to the registration page.
As for the latter, Musk on Friday called it a “temporary emergency measure,” adding, “The data was stolen so massively that it was degrading service for regular users.”
he pointed to AI companies scrape data from the social network:
“Strong and immediate action was necessary given the extreme levels of data scraping. Almost every company involved in AI, from start-ups to some of the largest companies on Earth, has been scraping massive amounts of data. It is annoying to have to bring in large numbers.” from servers online on an emergency basis only to facilitate the outrageous valuation of some AI startups.”
One of Musk’s first steps when he took over the company last October was to change the location of visitors Twitter.com They were redirected—instead of a subscribe page, they were going to the Explore page, which shows trending Tweets and news stories.
Friday evening chirp“Any social media companies that allow unauthorized access will become sights of hell strewn about once they become relevant.”
he books On Saturday morning, temporarily, verified Twitter accounts will be limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, 600 unverified accounts, and 300 new unverified accounts. Shown Those numbers will soon be raised to 8,000 if verified, 800 unverified, and 400 unverified.
Twitter wtf
For the new error messages on Saturday, luck It reached out to Twitter for comment but received no immediate response from anyone at the company. But we got the “Sorry, you’re limited in price” error message when logging in as an unverified user and trying to view tweets from Musk, luckand others.
On Saturday morning, Twitter’s trending box was dominated by platform issues, with users posting the hashtag #TwitterDown, “rate limit exceeded” meme posts, “Wtf Twitter,” etc. Downdector website show up An increase in the number of Twitter users — more than 7,500 — reported problems with the social network on Saturday morning.
Under Musk’s ownership, Twitter has undergone a chaotic revamp that has included mass layoffs, technical issues, and impulsive decisions that have been… reverse later.
In February, Twitter users across North America were unable to send messages, with an error message saying they had “exceeded the daily limit for sending tweets.” Musk at the time asked the staff to “please pause for now on developing new features in the interest of maximizing the stability and robustness of the system, especially with the release of the Super Bowl.”
In early March, Twitter users found that clicking on links within tweets did not workresulting in the error message “Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint.”