Rate Limit Exceeded

Apparently it doesn't seem to stop everyone. Some people have had more success with the web version than the app. If you use tweetdeck it doesn't seem to get you. I've lost access very quickly again this morning with my phone app.

Exactly 😂😂😂

It's 1000 tweets a day. Put your phone down and live life!!!!!

I don't have a disability but this kind of attitude I do find pretty ableist - Twitter is actually a lifeline for a lot of people!

You can easily skim a couple of 100 posts in a few minutes because you don’t actually read most of them. And if you click on one tweet, the replies to that tweet count in the numbers.

But mines not working at all this morning. Timeline not reloading and haven’t seen one new tweet today. Is anyone else getting that?

I wouldn't pay and would probably only use it in future for important things which affect me rather than just another view on a news story or TV programme

It's very easy to skim loads of posts though, also many are not in the language you may use as it is worldwide so they would all count too. It's not that different to only being able to read 1000 posts on Mumsnet.

I use it to look at news stories, some TV programmes comments, I used it a lot to look a Glastonbury tweets, also if things like Tesco don't work. I don't really tweet myself apart from complaining to places like British Gas though

Maybe people will realise that they don't value getting news from unverified sources in real time enough to pay for it and stop using it for that purpose?

Not a journalist so don’t use twitter!

I just said I haven’t looked at one single new tweet today and it’s still not working!!

He’s doing you a favour. Delete the app. Get a life.

It's 1000 tweets a day. Put your phone down and live life!!!!!

When the message popped up on mine yesterday I thought the app was broken. Was totally unusable. I can’t see replies to any tweets. Our local bus company tweet when there are cancellations (usually a lot!) and I couldn’t check them for my teen.

I can’t even look up “rate limit exceeded” as a trend, so I can’t see what other Twitter users are saying about it. Hence coming on here!

This morning i still have the same message and my timeline isn’t reloading at all (have tried force closing app). So I definitely haven’t looked at even one new tweet today. Mines completely wrecked now.

It's driving me fucking bonkers!

I've been on Twitter for all of 10 minutes today and 'rate limit exceeded' has popped up ever since. I genuinely didn't read 600 tweets in that time, not a chance!

He's given a higher limit to those that are verified but it's £11 a month and I'm not giving him a penny

I wouldn't mind but I use the app to check on current events in real time, it's frightening that a platform like that can limit the amount you READ.

Fantastic way to make your platform tank.

Yes, I might not read / see every one of the 90 tweets that will load onto my timeline if I press that "show 90 tweets" button (see top of attached pic) but they will (presumably) contribute to around 1/8th (Elon Musk's now raised limit to 800 Tweets) of my daily Tweet diet. That's just after one hour away doing something else ;) Hopefully this nonsense really is just temporary.

Tweetdeck is mostly working OK (for now) https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

I've enjoyed the theories of Musk not paying Google for the underlying infrastructure, or implementing a change that seems to have set up some sort of feedback loop in which Twitter keeps trying to check if it's rate limited and in doing so limits its rate further.

It seems a fairly daft idea to limit people's viewing given that it's an ad-supported site. With adverts popping up every five Tweets for some people on the app then 800 tweets might include 160 ads.

This is a bit niche but enjoyable if you like that sort of thing. Someone set up a 'Spaces' (basically an audio-only Zoom equivalent hosted on Twitter) and about 40,000 people showed up (not all at once) to hear people talk about what they thought was going on: https://twitter.com/katienotopoulos/status/1675217394124333056

Some good stuff from journalists wondering how people would be able to share real-time on-the-ground stuff if they (and the audience) were limited as Twitter's just a really good way of finding out what's going on in a particular area. Also will emergency alert services get caught up in this or will they be 'excused'. People talking about the effect on live sports coverage (Twitter is often the 'second screen' for sport and other events including watercooler TV).

Jo

If you don’t use Twitter, 600 probably sounds like a lot, but if you’re scrolling through your timeline, you’re not “reading” every one - I maybe stop and actually read one in 10 of what comes up, and they’re only a couple of sentences each, so it’s not like you’re spending hours to get to 600. You could easily do it just idly swiping your timeline in the morning while the kettle boils. It’s not like getting 600 texts.

Mine was in desktop.

Thanks @ItsBarbieBitchhhh

Twitter was going bankrupt before Elon bought it. It was also a very toxic place for women in particular to be online.

I’d love to know what all those moaning about him would do if they were in charge?

What the frikkin hell has he done that for??? And is it only on the app???

I reckon the 600 tweets is a red herring. The prick's ruined it because he got rid of his workforce so doesn't have the infrastructure to support the platform anymore and doesn't want to admit incompetence.

Or he's just trying to get everyone to pay for it but is so bloody stupid to realise people will just leave rather than pay.