Thousands of Twitter users reported that they were unable to use the social media app on Saturday, prompting hashtags that included "TwitterDown" and "RateLimitExceeded."

Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site or faced difficulty and delays Saturday.

  • atlhart
    10•2 years ago

    Just a few years ago…even a year ago…I would have thought that was it, the internet has agglomerated around these few sites: Twitter, Facebook, Reddit.

    And then do to mismanagement, the owners of these sites have created an opening for competition.

    I’d never heard of Mastodon until Elon bought Twitter. I’d never heard I’d Lemmy of kbin until Spez decided to shut down the 3PAs.

    These “innovators” are falling into the same traps of as the ghosts of the past. Napster existed because the record industry tries to stop the future, and stop the consumers from getting what they wanted.

    It’s a new day for the internet.

      • Entropywins
        1•2 years ago

        I don’t understand the use of “to be fair” in this context… I don’t think OP was being unfair… I’m probably being pedantic or maybe not enough coffee yet…

  • buffaloseven
    25•2 years ago

    You can practically hear the money he spent burning in a pit out back.

  • OpenStars
    19•2 years ago

    What a fantastic idea!

    -Huffman, right now pushing devs to roll it out onto Reddit also \s

  • meldroc
    18•2 years ago

    How’s firing almost all your IT staff working out for you, Elon?

  • metaStatic
    3•2 years ago

    Breaking news: The US Navy detected the implosion of Twitter 3 days ago

  • Benjamin Mathis
    1•2 years ago

    @Silverseren Not that I have been active much on there since October anyways, but this is honestly just ridiculous. Like it isn’t hardly usable at this point. 🤦

    • Rhaedas
      2•2 years ago

      If I thought there was a genius behind his actions and a plan, and given his past warnings and fears about AGI, I would almost think that he figured out Twitter was being mined for training for AI and decided he would do everything in his power to obtain the company and sabotage it so it couldn’t be used anymore. If I thought there was a genius mind there.

      Reality is that this is what happens when software designed to work a certain way is suddenly switched over to doing things never planned , such as what happened with Reddit and all the subs that went private.

  • Pluto_Is_A_Planet
    15•2 years ago

    I just find it interesting how the fixation on API and things of that nature is happening all of a sudden across the different platforms.

    You can say it’s Musk being Musk or Reddit setting up for their IPO, but a similar thing has been going on with instagram as well. They had rate limiting for a long time for those without accounts. Then back in May it started to get worse. At the same time they began banning/suspending accounts for merely just existing. The common theme was those accounts only had email attached to them.

    It just seems there’s a real push to isolate things and Twitter and Instagram really want verification.

    • magic_lobster_party
      1•2 years ago

      I think it has to do with OpenAI. They launched the fastest growing app of all time. ChatGPT wouldn’t have been possible without massive amounts of scraping. Reddit and Twitter sees this, and feel like they’re owed a share of their success.

      If someone can make a successful product by scraping Reddit and Twitter, they better pay for it. Especially considering each request costs money for Reddit and Twitter.

      Just my guess.

    • fsniper
      19•2 years ago

      It’s not that interesting. There is an on going AI (llm) craze that requires participants to acquire huge amounts of “clean” data. Reddit and Twitter are platforms that can provide this. So why not cash on it? Also free money is no more so they are all looking to find ways to penny pinch.

      • eu8
        7•2 years ago

        That doesn’t explain it IMO. That data is already freely available and LLMs don’t need the latest data. So data scraping for AI makes up a miniscule amount of API usage.

        I think it has more to do with inflation. Investors aren’t putting their money into risky tech companies as much, and so these companies (twitter, reddit, etc) have to prove they can be profitable for once, and they probably are going to fail to do this. It does mean we can’t have nice things for free anymore like API access.

    • originalucifer
      4•2 years ago

      its about the big datasets required to train systems to interact with and generate content as human beings… as usual, its a profit motive.

  • the_thunder_god
    6•2 years ago

    Didn’t give the billionaire my money so yeah it took like 10 minutes for me to get the rate exceeded message.