Thousands of Twitteratis face trouble using Twitter

 

Thousands of Twitteratis have reported about issues while accessing their accounts, stated Downdetector.

According to the outage tracking website, more than 7,000 reports of issues with Twitter were registered in the United States and over 5,000 from the United Kingdom.

Users in other countries, including India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Turkiye.

The exact cause of the problems was not immediately clear. Twitter Inc has not directly commented on the matter yet.

Meanwhile, owner Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform that Twitter had applied temporary reading limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation.

Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, Musk said, adding that the unverified accounts and new unverified accounts are limited to reading 600 posts a day and 300 posts per day, respectively.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672

Twitter has also announced that it will require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that Musk called a “temporary emergency measure.”

Previously, a Twitter outage was reported in May, with more than 3,600 incidents of people reporting issues with the social media platform according to Downdetector.

Thousands of Twitter users had reported problems accessing links from the social media platform and other websites in March as well. Downdetector had reported more than 8,000 incidents of people reporting issues at the time.

After the problem was fixed, Musk tweeted that a small change in Twitter’s data-access tool had caused the problem. “The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. Will ultimately need a complete rewrite,” he had said.