Twitter wasn’t working for 1000’s of customers on Saturday.

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Twitter wasn’t working for 1000’s of customers on Saturday.

Jeff Chiu/AP

Thousands of Twitter customers reported issues accessing the location on Saturday.

The concern appeared to have an effect on customers on each the social media app and web site.

Many individuals who tried to view, search, refresh and publish content material on the platform had been met with error messages that learn, “Rate limit exceeded” or “Cannot retrieve tweets.”

“Please wait a few moments then try again,” the prompts learn.

The concern was intermittent; many individuals had been in some unspecified time in the future in a position to publish about their lack of ability to entry the location.

More than 7,400 individuals reported an issue accessing Twitter round 11 a.m. ET, according the website Downdetector. That quantity fell to about 2,000 studies by early night.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk introduced momentary limits on the variety of posts individuals can view.

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk addressed the difficulty on Saturday. He stated viewing limits would be temporarily imposed on tweets to handle “extreme levels of data scraping” and “system manipulation.”

As of Saturday night, “Verified” accounts had been restricted to studying 10,000 posts per day and unverified accounts restricted to 1,000 tweets per day, Musk stated. The restrict on new, unverified accounts is 500 per day. Those numbers had been up from decrease numbers Musk cited earlier within the day.

The restrictions comply with Twitter’s announcement that it could require customers to join or log into an current account on the location to have the ability to view tweets. He referred to as the transfer a “temporary emergency measure,” including that a number of hundred organizations had been scraping Twitter data “extremely aggressively,” which he stated was affecting person expertise.

The current set of limitations, nonetheless, have struck many customers as a ploy to get customers to pay more cash with a view to entry a greater expertise on Twitter with a “verified” account, which prices $8 per thirty days.

In an emailed response to NPR’s inquiry, Twitter responded with its standard poop emoji.

It’s the most recent widespread outage since Musk took over the social media web site late final yr.

Previous outages coincided with studies of mass layoffs at Twitter, which Musk stated had been financially crucial for the corporate. Since the SpaceX and Tesla CEO acquired the corporate in October, the location’s advert income has taken a steep dive.