Elon Musk joked about Twitter’s temporary daily reading limit after users vented their anger over Twitter’s new limit.
“Oh, ironically, the view limit was hit due to complaining about the view limit,” billionaire Tweet.
Musk had previously tweeted that Apply restrictions to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation.
Verified Twitter users were only able to read 6,000 posts a day, then increased to 8,000, then 10,000, he said.
Meanwhile, unverified accounts (those without the blue tick) are initially limited to 600 posts per day, and new unverified accounts are limited to 300 posts per day. This number was later increased to 800 and 400, and then to 1,000 and 500, respectively.
“You wake up from a deep trance, get off your phone and meet your friends and family,” Musk joked.
In another post, Musk said: “Rate limited due to reading all posts about rate limiting.”
The news led to “RIP Twitter” and #Twitterdown trending on the social media site.
Musk, who is also chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, has not said how long the temporary restrictions will last.
According to data from problem and outage monitoring website DownDetector, people started reporting problems shortly after midday UK time. As of 6 p.m., the site had received thousands of reports.
“Running Twitter is hard,” co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted. “I don’t want that pressure on anyone. I’m sure the team will do their best with the huge constraints.
“It’s easy to criticize these decisions from a distance … I feel guilty about that … but I know our goal is to see Twitter thrive. It will.”
People trying to access Twitter were told on Friday that they had to log into their accounts to view tweets, in what Musk called a “temporary emergency measure.”
An outage in February meant many users were unable to tweet, follow accounts or access their direct messages as the platform was plagued by widespread technical issues.
The billionaire completed a $44bn (£35bn) acquisition of the social media site in October 2022 and launched a payment system for “blue ticks”, or verified accounts, in April.
Subscribers can post longer tweets, make changes to already posted tweets, see about half as many ads, and use a non-fungible token (NFT) profile picture.
High-profile figures and celebrities said the move made the platform vulnerable to impostors and disinformation, while Twitter said the service “improved the quality of the conversation.”
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Since the entrepreneur was acquired, Twitter has slashed costs and laid off thousands of employees, including many who worked on preventing harmful and illegal content, protecting election integrity and providing accurate information on the site.
In December, just weeks after taking over, he tweeted: “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find out that someone is dumb enough to take this job.”
Linda Yaccarino, then an NBCUniversal executive, was announced as Twitter’s new chief executive in May, and Musk, 52, said he would serve as executive chairman.
The pledge came after millions of Twitter users called for his resignation in a poll that Musk initiated and pledged to abide by.