"Twitter Outage Sparks Elon Musk's Response and New Daily Limitations for Frustrated Users"

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Twitter experienced a widespread outage on Saturday, with thousands of users reporting issues such as being unable to retrieve tweets or encountering rate limits. Elon Musk, who took over as CEO of Twitter in 2022, tweeted about implementing temporary post reading limits to address data scraping and system manipulation. Verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts to 600 posts per day, and new unverified accounts to 300 posts per day. This outage follows a similar disruption in March, with over 8,000 users reporting issues.
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