SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter experienced widespread problems on Wednesday as users received . Error messages instead of trying to post, the most serious disruption to . The service since Elon Musk bought the platform in October.
It wasn’t immediately clear . What caused the disruption or whether the problems were universal. But for about an hour, many users received an error message . Saying they had “exceeded the daily limit for sending tweets.”
Some users reported that they were able to post . Their tweet when it was scheduled to be published later instead of immediately.
Later Wednesday, Twitter’s main posting service appeared to be back in working order. But other features, including direct messages, appeared to still have issues.
More than an hour after the outage began, the company said on one of its verified accounts . That it was aware of the issues and was working to resolve them.
When trying to retweet someone else’s post, some users received an error message: “Sorry! You’ve exceeded your tweet limit. Try retweeting again tomorrow.”
Twitter has a daily limit of 2,400 posts per day. According to its website, but that’s the highest limit few users have ever hit.
Musk’s sale of Twitter for $44 billion and his next decision to lay off most of . The company’s employees were predicted to cause the site’s infrastructure to fail. But those predictions did not come true before Wednesday.
Downdetector, a website that monitors . Social media complaints about online service disruptions. Showed a sharp spike in Twitter complaints starting around 5 p.m. Eastern time.
TTN News was unable to send tweets from any of. Its accounts early Wednesday evening and received warnings about tweet limits. A scheduled tweet sent via Tweetdeck, a popular Twitter client, worked.
SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter experienced widespread problems on Wednesday as users received . Error messages instead of trying to post, the most serious disruption to . The service since Elon Musk bought the platform in October.
It wasn’t immediately clear . What caused the disruption or whether the problems were universal. But for about an hour, many users received an error message . Saying they had “exceeded the daily limit for sending tweets.”
