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

Elon Musk has joked about Twitter’s momentary 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 stated Twitter applied the limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation.

He stated verified Twitter customers had been quickly restricted to studying 6,000 posts a day – which was later elevated to eight,000 then 10,000.

Meanwhile unverified accounts – these with no blue tick – had been initially restricted to studying 600 posts a day, whereas new unverified accounts had been restricted to 300 posts a day. The figures had 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 publish, Musk stated: “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 government of Tesla and SpaceX, has not stated how lengthy the momentary limits will final.

People began reporting issues shortly after midday UK time, based on drawback and outage monitoring website Downdetector. By 6pm, the web site had acquired 1000’s 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 straightforward 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 making an attempt to entry Twitter on Friday had been informed 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 suffering from widespread technical issues.

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

Subscribers are capable of publish 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 stated the transfer leaves the platform open to imposters and disinformation, whereas Twitter has stated the service “elevates quality conversations”.

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Since the entrepreneur’s acquisition, Twitter has minimize prices dramatically and laid off 1000’s of workers, together with many who had labored on efforts to forestall dangerous and unlawful content material, shield election integrity, and floor correct info 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 government Linda Yaccarino was introduced as Twitter’s new chief government, with Musk, 52, saying he would take up the function of government chairman.

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