Elon Musk jokes about Twitter’s new studying limits after customers vent fury

Elon Musk has joked about Twitter’s short-term day by day studying limits after customers vented their fury over the location’s new limitations.

“Oh the irony of hitting view limits due to complaining about view limits,” the billionaire tweeted.

Earlier Musk had mentioned Twitter utilized the bounds to handle “extreme levels” of information scraping and system manipulation.

He mentioned verified Twitter customers have been briefly restricted to studying 6,000 posts a day – which was later elevated to eight,000 then 10,000.

Meanwhile unverified accounts – these and not using a blue tick – have been initially restricted to studying 600 posts a day, whereas new unverified accounts have been restricted to 300 posts a day. The figures have been later elevated to 800 and 400 respectively after which once more to 1,000 and 500.

“You awake from a deep trance, step away from the phone to see your friends and family,” Musk joked.

In one other submit, Musk mentioned: “Rate limited due to reading all the posts about rate limits.”

The announcement led to RIP Twitter and #Twitterdown trending on the social media website.

Musk, who can be the chief govt of Tesla and SpaceX, has not mentioned how lengthy the short-term limits will final.

People began reporting issues shortly after midday UK time, in line with downside and outage monitoring website Downdetector. By 6pm, the web site had obtained hundreds of reviews.

“Running Twitter is hard,” co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted. “I don’t wish that stress upon anyone. I trust that the team is doing their best under the constraints they have, which are immense.

“It’s simple to critique the selections from afar…which I’m responsible of…however I do know the aim is to see Twitter thrive. It will.”

It comes after folks attempting to entry Twitter on Friday have been advised they must be logged into an account to view tweets, in what Musk referred to as a “temporary emergency measure”.

And in February, an outage meant many customers weren’t capable of tweet, observe accounts or entry their direct messages because the platform was stricken by widespread technical issues.

The billionaire accomplished a $44bn (£35bn) takeover of the social media website in October 2022, and in April launched a cost system for “blue ticks”, or verified accounts.

Subscribers are capable of submit longer tweets and are additionally capable of make adjustments to revealed tweets, see about half as many adverts, and use non-fungible token (NFT) profile photos.

High-profile figures and celebrities mentioned the transfer leaves the platform open to imposters and disinformation, whereas Twitter has mentioned the service “elevates quality conversations”.

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Since the entrepreneur’s acquisition, Twitter has lower prices dramatically and laid off hundreds of staff, together with many who had labored on efforts to forestall dangerous and unlawful content material, defend election integrity, and floor correct data on the location.

In December, simply weeks after the takeover, he tweeted: “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job.”

In May, then NBCUniversal govt Linda Yaccarino was introduced as Twitter’s new chief govt, with Musk, 52, saying he would take up the function of govt chairman.

The pledge got here after thousands and thousands of Twitter customers requested him to step down in a ballot Musk created and promised to abide by.