Twitter daily-limit error prevents customers from posting

On Wednesday afternoon a number of Twitter customers had been unable to put up to the positioning for about 90 minutes, receiving a message that learn, “You’ve got exceeded the day by day restrict for sending tweets.”

Tweets couldn’t even be posted from cellphones. A message pops up that reads, “Tweet not despatched” after which, “We’re sorry we could not ship your Tweet. Would you prefer to attempt once more or save this Tweet as a draft? ” Customers had been additionally not in a position to ship or load direct messages.

Service was principally again for a couple of minutes after 6 PM Jap Time, though direct messaging was nonetheless largely unavailable. Web-tracking service Downdetector confirmed the variety of customers submitting Twitter drawback experiences started round 4:30 p.m.

Whereas the positioning was down, customers had been in a position to tweet by scheduling their posts utilizing the calendar icon under the message field.

Twitter hasn’t introduced any updates to its day by day restrict. It isn’t clear whether or not the change on Wednesday was intentional or a short lived glitch. The corporate didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

In response to twitter website, the corporate limits the variety of tweets individuals can ship to 2,400 per day. There’s a day by day restrict of 500 direct messages.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has fired about 80% of the corporate’s workers since he acquired the corporate in late October. Twitter now has about 1,300 lively workers, together with fewer than 550 full-time engineers, in keeping with inside data seen by CNBC.

The corporate just lately closed an information heart in Sacramento, California, as a strategy to minimize prices, The New York Occasions reported in late December.

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