Mike Masnick ✅Lol. I tried posting a tweet to tell people about my latest Techdirt story (about Mastodon) and I got this error message (and it's the only tweet I've tried today).
hybrid havoc@mmasnick Yeah, seeing a few people post here about similar errors on Twitter.
Pyperkub@mmasnick Got that too today. Buh-bye.
rag. Gustavino BevilacquaYour limit is 0.33 tweets/day.
Try to fit.
tf
Rairii@mmasnick i didn't realise that when they said "write-only API" they meant "read-only API"
Marc Jacobs
Andres Jalinton
Patrick
Tom Bellin 
@mmasnick Musk enabled free write-only for the bots and free read-only for everyone else.
Elias Fox
Third spruce tree on the left
luckysitsinbackah. well, bye.
oooooh, email your best journos, and ANY Dem staffer you can.
twitter is leaving the building ...
Paul Roub
TorontoWill@mmasnick Me too! Same error and I haven't tweeted since 3 days ago. But I didn't mention Mastodon or anything like that, it doesn't seem to matter what the tweet says.
Merovius@mmasnick TweetDeck is down too. My guess is: The "no more free API" flip went poorly.
husbandpanda 🐼@husbandpanda @mmasnick I would assume by accident. Though who knows, maybe Musk noticed that there was this one API key using a whole lot of quota without paying (the official one)
Thomas A. Fine 
@mmasnick Ditto.
Web interface. (Android app worked.)
@mmasnick I take it back.. The Android app failed silently.
Scott Anderson@mmasnick I got same message. Twitter is broken.
Travis Newton 👨💻@mmasnick "BuT tWiTtEr iS bEtTeR!" 🙄 yeah...
Ahmet Alphan Sabancı@mmasnick I’m not saying this is the reason but… https://mastodon.social/@ahmetasabanci/109831102273863641
Chad Loder@mmasnick Others are running into the same issue, from what I'm seeing. Twitter is either inadvertently broken, or *someone* did not like the way the congressional hearing on Twitter was going and decided to disable all tweets
Charles Johnson@chadloder @mmasnick TweetDeck is also down. Just keeps cycling back to the “Log in” page.
Robert M
Half Cocked Law@chadloder @mmasnick I'd say you were being paranoid, except he already did that for spaces.
ALL our pretty tweets ? ...
ALL of them ?
god damn, worse than Macbeth, innit.
ooooh, journos gonna be happy.
Dan Milway 
@chadloder @mmasnick This is obviously a glitch, but it's unsettling that they have that particular error text ready to use ...
Jonne@thrilway @chadloder @mmasnick I mean, you do want to have some sort of rate limiting to cut down on spam. I'm sure Mastodon instances do the same.
@jonne @chadloder @mmasnick The Mastodon API has rate-limits but they seem to be on the scale of 5-30 minutes
keithzg@mmasnick Yeah Twitter seems to be down right now, I can fetch my feed but all posts are over 20min old.
lorax b. horne 🍉@mmasnick Yeah it's broken for everyone not just for you
@mmasnick Same. Site is broken.
Chance The Lawyer ⚡︎@halfcocked @mmasnick the Facebook down influx caused a cascading failure and killed the bird
🇨🇦 Jason Bouwmeester 🍁@mmasnick yep, getting the same. 😂
Nelson@mmasnick I also received this message after tweeting zero times today. Is this affecting a large number of people on Twitter? Or only people who are known to have Mastodon accounts? 🤔
Coop
Shoq@mmasnick I doesn't seem to be intentional. We're all getting that message. Word on the street is that Elmo has called up more hamsters to catch up.
@Green_Footballs - Note: Sidetoolz posting via the API seems fine, so long as it's not posted from Tweetdeck or Twitter.com. Posted URLs from other tabs works fine.
Peter Cassizzi 
@shoq @Green_Footballs @mmasnick But it is interesting that basically nobody can tweet right after Elon’s Twitter Files got called out for the BS they always were.
SilversaltyJust got the same thing. 3 tweets since 12AM. 10 in 24hrs. If this is a block on your first try then Musk's henchcoders are probably still coding. If free Twitter is read only it'll be done. Too many pay for choices that would be better.
Matt Ballantine@mmasnick Getting the same.
Sacking all those engineers starting to have an impact?
@mmasnick This is obviously a glitch, but it's unsettling that they have that error text ready to use ...
Secrecy Envelope 🦠💉💉💉💉💉
Curtis Wilde@mmasnick What they didn’t mention about long tweets is that the character count is deducted from a daily global character count limit for all users. Sorry folks, the blue checks used up all of the twitter, try back tomorrow 🤪
Jen Kramer@mmasnick Same, posted twice.
Hockey-Eeyore 🏒🇸🇪🇺🇲
Sol Tight
Alan Gamrican@mmasnick Tweet volume goes down. Less content for the algorithm to spin into conflagration. Just one more indication of the mortality spiral of a business out of touch with reality.
marie_cast @mmasnick 🤷🏻♀️ if it really works… https://twitter.com/petekeeley/status/1623442549540257793?s=46&t=5RvIX6mAK6yEvXpErOVL0w
Lynda Woolard
100iqch@mmasnick tw is lost. luckily.
GadgetGav@mmasnick Me too. First tweet in days and it said I was over the limit. It also blocked me from following the podcast I was trying to tweet to as well (even though I thought I already followed them).
Is it pay to tweet over there now?
Is it pay to tweet over there now?
VHaschAh. I see. A Twitter that doesn't tweet. How original! Elon is a genius! 🤭
Susanne Leist Author@mmasnick I've heard of other people having this problem today.
Phil Haigh@mmasnick it’s so broken, I logged in and my personal timeline is empty even though I still follow over 300 accounts. Lol indeed.