Saturday, July 1, 2023, 9:04 p.m.
The tycoon Elon Musk has announced this Saturday a series of limitations for Twitter, both in the viewing and in the publication of messages. In this way, the new owner of the famous social network has established a viewing limit of 6,000 messages per day, as well as the publication of no more than 600 messages for unverified accounts. Likewise, new unverified users will only be able to access 300 messages per day.
This decision occurs in the midst of the many problems that users are having to view content on Twitter. In fact, Musk justifies these measures that can generate controversy in the need to “confront the extreme levels of data extraction and manipulation of the system.”
This is the latest in a series of incidents that have affected Musk’s social network since it was acquired by the also owner of the Tesla and SpaceX companies a year ago.
“Something went wrong”
For example, users can access the Twitter interface, but the message rail does not appear both on the web and in the application; instead you may see an error message: “exceeded rate limit” or “something went wrong. Try to reload.” When asked for a comment on what is happening, the company has responded as usual with a brief “poop” emoji.
In February, messages could not be published for 90 minutes after an error for exceeding the “daily limit” and already in March the incident arose because users could not click on links or see photos. Other problems in the service of this social network appeared after the announcement of layoffs in the company or after the closure of a data center.
