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'Rate limit exceeded;' Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 years ago (28 children)

And it's worse than you think. While this is a "bug", it is based on a feature that Elon is actively rolling out that will be rate limiting how many tweets you're allowed to view in a day.

That seems to be where the current issue stems from, likely something where it's looking at the amount you've read in the previous 24 hours.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

This is a bad corporate speak that says, "Don't scrape our data, consume through api and pay upto your necks".

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