Twitter is OFF! Thousands are complaining that Elon Musk’s social media site has stopped working
Twitter is OFF! Thousands complain that Elon Musk’s social media site has stopped working, preventing them from sending tweets or searching the site
- Twitter apparently crashed Saturday morning
- Users were told that their ‘rate limit’ had been exceeded
- It comes less than a day after Musk boasted that the platform reached record usage levels
Elon Musk’s Twitter platform appeared to have crashed Saturday morning, sending millions of users into overdrive as they were unable to search the site.
Users complained that the platform was unable to load tweets, with many unable to see posts until Friday night.
The issue was telling users that their “speed limit” had been exceeded, though it’s unclear exactly what caused the problem.
It comes after the platform endured turbulent times in the wake of Musk’s successful $44 billion acquisition last year.
Elon Musk’s Twitter platform appeared to have crashed Saturday morning
The issue was telling users that their “speed limit” had been exceeded, though it’s unclear exactly what caused the problem
The reason for the crash wasn’t immediately clear, but it comes less than a day after Musk boasted record-high numbers on his site.
“This platform hit another record in user seconds last week,” he tweeted about 15 hours before the platform crashed.
According to online usage tracker Down detectorTwitter saw a huge spike in outages around 8 a.m. on Saturday.
The crash comes a day after Musk boasted of record usage numbers on his platform
The billionaire also revealed that the site experienced unexpected problems on Friday amid record usage numbers, prompting him to take “drastic and immediate” action.
Users were temporarily unable to access tweets without opting in as AI companies performed “extreme levels” of data scrubbing.
Musk doubled down on his unpopular effort to push authentication among users when addressing the issue Friday, tweeting, “All social media companies that allow unauthenticated access will become bot-strewn hellscapes once they become relevant.”