Last Updated: July 1, 2023 at 11:03 a.m. ET
First Published: July 1, 2023 at 10:34 a.m. ET
Twitter has been hit Saturday by a global outage that is preventing thousands of users from accessing the social media platform.
Many users have complained of seeing the “Cannot retrieve tweets” error message when they try to view or post tweets. Some users have also reported seeing a “Rate limit exceeded error message.”
Users have reported…
Twitter has been hit Saturday by a global outage that is preventing thousands of users from accessing the social media platform.
Many users have complained of seeing the “Cannot retrieve tweets” error message when they try to view or post tweets. Some users have also reported seeing a “Rate limit exceeded error message.”
Users have reported receiving the message ‘rate-limit exceeded’ on their “For You” page, a page usually consisting of personal, curated content.
Almost 4,000 people have complained of issues on the Down Detector site, including the inability to retrieve tweets, missing timelines and followers disappearing.
It is not clear what the cause of the problem is or how long they will last. The company has yet to comment.
This is the third time that the platform is facing an outage. On March 6, it was reported that Twitter experienced glitches as links stopped working, some users were unable to log in and images were not loading for others.
Similarly, on February 8, it was reported that many Twitter users found themselves unable to tweet, follow accounts or access their direct messages as the Elon Musk-owned platform experienced a slew of technical problems.
One social media user wrote on Down Detector: “I joined Twitter in 2009, and I’ve had more problems since Elon took over than the whole time before that. Insanity.”
Even those who have access to the platform have complained about issues.
