Micro-blogging platform Twitter was reportedly down for thousands of users
across the globe. The maximum outages were reported in the US.
Facebook and Instagram users too faced outages but the issue was later
resolved as per the company.
Several Twitter users reported that they were unable to post new tweets and
were countering an error message that said, “You are over the daily limit
for sending Tweets.”
Twitter’s support team said that they are aware of the issue and working to
get it fixed.
Accounts also had trouble when they tried to follow another Twitter user,
getting a message “You are unable to follow more people at this time” with
a link to the company’s policy on follow limits. Twitter’s long-standing
limit on how many accounts a single user can follow in a single day is 400
— again, more than a regular Twitter user would generally reach on any
given day.
It is not clear what caused Wednesday’s meltdown, but Twitter engineers and
experts have been warning that the platform is at an increased risk of
fraying since Musk fired most of the people who worked on keeping it
running.
Outage tracking website Downdetector also showed a spike in user glitch
reports for the two Meta platforms – Twitter and Facebook.
More than 12,000 Facebook users reported errors and about 7,000 incidents
were reported for Instagram.
Facebook and Instagram were back up for most users after a brief outage,
the company said on Wednesday, adding that a technical issue that disrupted services for thousands of people has been resolved.
