As thousands of Twitter users reported problems attempting to access the social media site Saturday, Elon Musk tweeted he is limiting the daily number of tweets users can read.

  • Drunemeton
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    392 years ago

    In an update, he said rate limits would soon increase to 8,000 for verified users, 800 for unverified and 400 for new unverified. About three hours later, he tweeted those numbers were “Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k.”

    Well that’ll fix everything!

  • @[email protected]
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    362 years ago

    Twitter responded to CNBC’s request for comment with its customary poop emoji.

    I never would have believed there was an actual path to this being a factual sentence one year ago.

    • @tallwookie
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      92 years ago

      this timeline has its ups and downs, to be certain

    • @wolfylow
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      52 years ago

      Man, when you put it like that …. it just boggles the mind, doesn’t it?

      We certainly are living in interesting times.

  • David Palmer
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    152 years ago

    How can one person do so much damage to a company in such a short amount of time? It’s incredible.

  • @[email protected]
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    132 years ago

    Musk is thinking of himself as the genius who creates value even when the whole system is breaking down, due to his own actions. Good for the Internet, go on Musk. Remember to bring u/spez with you.

  • ivanafterall
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    32 years ago

    I can’t wait until he starts trying to single-handedly provide 100% of Twitter’s content, too. Probably by mid-week.

    • CileTheSane
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      32 years ago

      I heard he didn’t renew the contract for Google server hosting and Twitter can’t handle the traffic now.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        I’ve seen proof that embedded tweets have no concept of rate limiting, and are DDOSing twitter servers just by trying to load content.

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    He’s really speedrunning twitter to death.

    • Username02
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      12 years ago

      Good. Die before it can interfere with the upcoming election.

  • Niello
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    I don’t know if it’s just me, but all this time something about the big forehead he has makes me think he’d look perfect in a clown make up.