{"id":30409,"date":"2023-07-02T08:21:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T12:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/investing\/elon-musk-announces-new-daily-twitter-limitations-as-thousands-of-users-report-problems-accessing-site\/"},"modified":"2023-07-02T08:21:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T12:21:30","slug":"elon-musk-announces-new-daily-twitter-limitations-as-thousands-of-users-report-problems-accessing-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=30409","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk announces new daily Twitter limitations as thousands of users report problems accessing site"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elon Musk is limiting the daily number of tweets users can read, he announced Saturday after thousands of users reported problems trying to access the social media app.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0tweet<\/a>\u00a0Saturday afternoon, 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. New unverified users can only access 300 posts a day.<\/p>\n

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Musk said the new change is temporary and was put in place to \u201caddress extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation.\u201d <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest outage since he\u00a0acquired the social media site late last year.<\/p>\n

Earlier Saturday many users complained of seeing the \u201cCannot retrieve tweets\u201d error message when they try to view or post tweets. Some users also reported seeing a \u201cRate limit exceeded error message.\u201d<\/p>\n

Users reported receiving the message \u2018rate-limit exceeded\u2019 on their \u201cFor You\u201d page, a page usually consisting of personal, curated content.<\/p>\n

Several thousand people complained of issues on the Down Detector site, including the inability to retrieve tweets, missing timelines and followers disappearing.<\/p>\n

This is the third time that the platform has faced an outage. On March 6, it was reported that Twitter experienced glitches as links stopped working, some users were unable to log in and images were not loading for others.<\/p>\n

Similarly, on February 8, it was reported that many Twitter users found themselves unable to tweet, follow accounts or access their direct messages as the platform experienced technical problems.<\/p>\n

One social media user wrote on Down Detector: \u201cI joined Twitter in 2009, and I\u2019ve had more problems since Elon took over than the whole time before that. Insanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even those who have access to the platform have complained about issues.<\/p>\n

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