'Rate limit exceeded;' Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide

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

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/rate-limit-exceeded-twitter-down-for-thousands-of-users-worldwide/

'Rate limit exceeded;' Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide

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

CBS San Francisco

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.

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.