On Saturday, tens of thousands of Twitter users in numerous countries had trouble or delays accessing the social media platform.


The two most popular trending topics on the app in the US, for those who use it, are "Rate Limit Exceeded" and "#TwitterDown." By Saturday midday, there were over 40,000 tweets from the former.

According to DownDetector, reports of disruptions started at 8 am EST and increased rapidly throughout the morning. More than 7,400 outage reports were recorded across the internet as of 12:00 EST, according to Down Detector.


Musk changes policy 

After users started reporting issues, the website's billionaire owner Elon Musk tweeted that temporary limits had been put in place "to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation."

He claimed that verified accounts are only allowed to read 6,000 posts per day while unverified ones are only allowed to read 600. At 300 posts each day, new unverified accounts are created.

To increase sales, Musk started giving users who subscribe to Twitter Blue a blue verification tick mark.
Later, Musk announced that he would "soon" raise the daily tweet cap for verified users, unconfirmed users, and new unverified accounts to 8,000, 800, and 400, respectively.

Many people expressed their anger about the connectivity issues. Other hot topics in the US were "Wtf twitter" and "Thanks Elon."

Just recently, it seemed like Twitter was limiting access to its site for users who weren't logged in. It was unclear whether the modification was deliberate.

a problem or a change in policy. On Saturday, 44% of the reported issues were with the website, followed by 39% of issues with the app.

a significant outage, one of the worst since Elon Musk took charge. In that case, more than 8,000 users reported disturbances.
With the appointment of Linda Yaccarino as the platform's new CEO, Musk is attempting to revive the business, which has been suffering from a loss of advertisers.