Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site or faced difficulty and delays Saturday.

  • SilverserenOP
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    852 years ago

    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.

    • grus
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      672 years ago

      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’

      • SilverserenOP
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        512 years ago

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

        • Chariotwheel
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          52 years ago

          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.

          • jiaerene
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            32 years ago

            why care about helpfulness and community interaction and value when you can simply monetize every single aspect and run the community into the ground for the 💰💰💰

      • hovster9
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        132 years ago

        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.

        • Cihta
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          52 years ago

          Right?? It’s weird… it’s both refreshing and nostalgic at the same time.

        • MarvinKMooney
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          12 years ago

          I have definitely commented more in the fedverse in the last week than I have in the last year on Reddit.

    • Griffith
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      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.

    • flta
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      172 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.

    • id_kai
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      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.

      • artisanrox
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        32 years ago

        Which would mean people won’t bother with popular tweets people are paying money for to get more views

        💀 lol

    • fsniper
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      112 years ago

      This is a bad corporate speak that says, “Don’t scrape our data, consume through api and pay upto your necks”.

    • Cal
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      112 years ago

      I’d say reduce the limit to 600 for verified accounts and unverified to 60 and new accounts to 30.
      The world will be a better place.

    • mehble
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      72 years ago

      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!

    • xNIBx
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      300 posts, most of which are text are obviously too much traffic for a multi-billion dollar social media site.

    • Pamasich
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      52 years ago

      So given Reddit’s CEO idolizes Musk and his ideas for Twitter, I wonder how long it’ll take for Reddit to adopt this.

    • bazpoint
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      52 years ago

      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.

      • Otome-chan
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        22 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.