Twitter experiencing international outages; most users can’t tweet or DM

guest · Feb 9, 2023

Musk pausing Twitter feature updates amid global outage, report says.
By Ashley Belanger @ashleynbelanger - February 9, 2023

Late Wednesday afternoon, Twitter began experiencing international outages, with many users unable to perform basic functions like tweeting, sending direct messages, and following accounts. When Ars reporters attempted to tweet, an error message was generated saying that a daily limit of tweets had been reached, even from accounts that had not tweeted that day. According to Twitter, users typically have to tweet 2,400 times to reach the platform’s daily limit.
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Independent Internet monitor NetBlocks tweeted that the outages impacted Twitter's website, mobile app, and features like posting and retweeting and were “not related to country-level Internet disruptions or filtering.”

Twitter has no communications department to follow up to confirm if the apparent outage is due to a bug or recent product update, both possible causes reported by CNBC.
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guest · Feb 9, 2023

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Musk pausing Twitter feature updates amid global outage, report says.
By Ashley Belanger @ashleynbelanger - February 9, 2023
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[Update: Late Wednesday night, Musk tweeted in response to a Twitter user asking if the platform was glitching, confirming that Twitter had "multiple internal & external issues simultaneously" and "should be fully back on track later" on Wednesday night. An Ars test this morning confirmed that some Twitter accounts that were previously experiencing reported issues are now able to tweet, DM, and follow accounts.]
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Tweets and direct messages were broken for many Twitter users
Something was very wrong with Twitter on Wednesday afternoon.
By Karissa Bell @karissabe - February 8, 2023

Something was very wrong with Twitter Wednesday afternoon, but it’s not clear exactly what. For several hours, core features, including direct messages and tweets, were not working for large swaths of users. But by 6:30 PM ET, Twitter had confirmed that it was aware of the issue and working to get it resolved. Shortly afterwards, service appeared to return to normal.
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While some users were able to tweet, many users received messages that they can’t tweet or as they are “over the daily limit for sending Tweets.” A similar message appeared when attempting retweets: “Sorry! You’ve have exceeded your Tweet limit. Try retweet again tomorrow.” Trying to follow accounts also produced an error about reaching a "daily limit."

In my case, I tweeted less than two dozen times on Wednesday and still received the errors. According to Twitter, the “technical limit” for accounts is 2,400 tweets and 500 direct messages a day. The daily "follow limit" is 400.
Additionally, direct messages were down for many users.
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Update 2/8 6:30 PM ET: The ability to tweet (without scheduling) seems to be back for most users. The ability to direct message or follow a new account is still broken. In a tweet from its support account, Twitter said the service "may not be working as expected for some of you," but didn't elaborate on the source of the problems. "We're aware and working to get this fixed."
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