Elon Musk, chief twit, recently stated that verified accounts have a 6,000-post-per-day reading limit. In addition, unverified accounts will drop to 600 posts per day. Those that are newly unverified will only be able to access 300 posts per day.
These rate limits are being introduced as a result of alleged system manipulation and data scraping. He went on to update that rate limits would soon increase by 8,000 posts for verified users, 800 posts for verified, and 400 posts for newly unverified.
This represents the largest widespread outage since the social media site was acquired by the reputable tech entrepreneur late last year.
Many users that attempted to post content or access posts on the Twitter site or mobile app were greeted with a “Rate limited exceeded” or “cannot retrieve tweets” message. Close to 10,000 reported problems on Downdetector.