Twitter users report issue with website, ‘TwitterDown’ and ‘Rate Limit Exceeded’ starts trending

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A few users reported encountering problems such as difficulties in accessing tweets or receiving the error message, "Sorry, you are rate limited..

Numerous Twitter users expressed frustration on Saturday as they experienced difficulties accessing the social media platform, leading to the trending hashtags "TwitterDown" and "RateLimitExceeded."..

In a tweet posted at approximately 1 pm, Elon Musk, who assumed control of the San Francisco-based platform in 2022, addressed the issue of post-reading limits..

In response to aggressive data scraping by numerous organizations, Twitter recently announced a temporary emergency measure that requires users to have an account on the platform to view tweets..

According to Musk's tweet, verified accounts were restricted to reading 6000 posts per day, unverified accounts to 600 posts per day, and new unverified accounts to 300 posts per day.When did Twitter report issues with users?..

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