July 1st 2023.
Today has been a frustrating day for Twitter users, with a global outage causing plenty of irritation. Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has been a bit of a rollercoaster and with this latest outage, some are questioning if he should focus more on fixing his $44 billion purchase than planning billionaire cage fights.
Twitter users have been met with a 'rate limit exceeded' error message, preventing them from sending tweets, viewing new tweets in their feeds, or sending a DM. So what does this error message mean?
Twitter's blog explains it as follows: 'In order to control the use of the Twitter API, Twitter sets a limit on how many times it can be used in an hour.' In other words, users have reached the limit set by the site for the number of tweets or new accounts they can follow within a certain timeframe.
To reduce the likelihood of seeing the error message, Twitter pros suggest only running one Twitter application at a time, not overusing the refresh button, and if you do get the error message, closing down your applications and then reopening them at the reset time.
In the meantime, Twitter users will have to wait and see if Musk can make good on his investment. Linda Yaccarino recently replaced Musk as CEO of Twitter, so perhaps things will start to look up for the social media giant.
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