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Thousands of Twitter users report problems accessing site as Elon Musk says new limits have been installed (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Gray@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 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.

[–] cloventt@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] DreamyDolphin@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I'd say the more incredible part is how Twitter is still going, and how people are still actively there, in spite of the rolling dumpster fire that's been happening for literally months now.

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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!

[–] errer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

“Let me just pull some more numbers out my ass!”

[–] MicahParsons@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's turning into P2W

[–] cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

That $44 billion ain't gonna turn a profit on itself.

[–] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago

This is honestly so fucking funny

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He really does just love to YOLO those changes doesn't he 😆

[–] CileTheSane@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 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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