Elon Musk-owned platform Twitter is experiencing a slew of widespread technical issues, with many customers unable to tweet, comply with accounts or entry their direct messages.
“Twitter is probably not working as anticipated for a few of you. Sorry for the difficulty. We’re conscious and dealing to get this fastened,” the corporate tweeted from its “help” account.
The problems are affecting customers all over the world, together with in Australia
Additional particulars have been unavailable Wednesday afternoon and an electronic mail in search of remark from the corporate’s press account went unanswered.
Twitter has dissolved its media relations workforce.
Customers first observed the issue once they tried to ship tweets and acquired a message saying they’d reached their “tweet restrict”.
Whereas Twitter has for years restricted the variety of tweets an account can ship, it’s 2400 per day, or 100 an hour – way over most common, human-run accounts ship on the platform.
Accounts additionally had bother once they tried to comply with one other Twitter consumer, getting a message “You might be unable to comply with extra folks right now” with a hyperlink to the corporate’s coverage on comply with limits.
Twitter’s long-standing restrict on what number of accounts a single consumer can comply with in a single day is 400 – once more, greater than an everyday Twitter consumer would typically attain on any given day.
It’s not clear what prompted the meltdown however Twitter engineers and consultants have been warning that the platform is at an elevated danger of fraying since Mr Musk fired most people who labored on maintaining it working.
In November, engineers who left Twitter described for The Related Press why they anticipate appreciable unpleasantness for Twitter’s greater than 230 million customers now that greater than two-thirds of Twitter’s pre-Musk core providers engineers are apparently gone.
Whereas they do not anticipate near-term collapse, the engineers mentioned Twitter may get very tough on the edges – particularly if Mr Musk makes main adjustments with out a lot off-platform testing.
One Twitter engineer, who had labored in core providers, informed the AP in November that engineering workforce clusters have been down from about 15 folks pre-Musk – not together with workforce leaders, who have been all laid off – to a few or 4 earlier than much more resignations.
Then extra institutional data that may’t get replaced in a single day walked out the door.
“All the pieces may break,” the programmer mentioned.
– AAP
