What a colossal putz.

Elon #Musk announces new daily #Twitter limitations as thousands of users report problems accessing site

Musk said that verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts a day. For unverified accounts, the number drops drastically to 600 posts a day.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/thousands-users-report-problems-accessing-twitter-met-rate-limit-excee-rcna92188

Thousands of Twitter users report problems accessing site as Elon Musk says new limits have been installed

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.

NBC News

@GottaLaff

Question: did Elon introduce the limits BECAUSE of the outage, or is the outage due to downtime for Twitter to put in the whatever to count people's reads?

@GottaLaff

I came across this post that answers my question!
Thanks @sysop408

https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057

Sheldon (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying. In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right. The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in. This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS. Unbelievable. It's amateur hour. #TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

SFBA.social