Twitter experiences widespread disruption as users get error message trying to post

[C Moon]

Source: NBC news

The problem is among the most severe since Elon Musk bought the company in October and eliminated most of its staff, including some overseeing infrastructure.

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter experienced widespread problems Wednesday as users trying to post instead got error messages, the most serious disruption in the service since Elon Musk bought the platform in October.

It was not immediately clear what caused the disruption or if the problems were universal, but many users received an error message that they were "over the daily limit for sending Tweets."

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna69822

[Casady1]

1. Elon- fix the code

LOL

[Arne]

2. tweets

The big tree in my back yard is tweeting all day, sometimes at night.

[yardwork]

3. What a surprise. /nt

[Roy Rolling]

4. Vlad P

“MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”

[Trueblue1968]

5. TRUMP DID IT. IT IS TRUMP'S FAULT. It is ALWAYS Trump's fault.

[mellow]

6. Twitter? Oh yeah ... that was that old platform before mastodon.

[paleotn]

7. Very well done.

[Renew Deal]

8. Which means they are probably going to limit tweets sent from non-paying members.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. That's what it almost sounds like to me

- testing some kind of quota/limiting code.

If the current owner wasn't so nefarious, I might have chalked it up to testing some algorithm to detect bot accounts based on frequency of posts. But since he is determined to micromanage the monetization of the thing, then...

[C Moon]

17. That's what I'm thinking, as well.

[NullTuples]

10. Wonder if this is tied to Elon shutting down the 3rd party API?

[NullTuples]

19. Update: yup. It was the API block

Elon had them shut off access to the API but it turns out the official client also uses said API.

Bummer, dude.

[keithbvadu2]

11. The happiest Twitter folks now are those who were forced to sell their stock at full price.

The happiest Twitter folks now are those who were forced to sell their stock at full price.

[ZonkerHarris]

13. yup

[LudwigPastorius]

14. Circling...

[SunSeeker]

15. I just tried to retweet one of Biden's tweets (where he calls out Rick Scott) and I couldn't.

I got thus error message that I had reached my 2,500 daily tweet limit. But I'd only retweeted a couple dozen tweets all day. The odd thing is Biden's is only tweet it wouldn't let me retweet.

[Martin68]

16. I would not be surprised if disgruntled employees are sticking it to "The Man"

for playing with their company like plaything and an expendable asset.

[AllyCat]

18. That place is still around, eh?

[balnesh]

20. Twitter is full of neonazis and Anti-vaxxers. So good

Blackouts keep them out for a while.