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Tell HN: Twitter is now rate limiting accounts

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Okay, so I was browsing Twitter on my phone and then suddenly, tweets stopped loading. I thought it was the app acting up, so I copied the link to the tweet I was reading and opened it in my mobile browser.

Everything worked fine for like 10 minutes until, the tweets stopped loading (again) and now there is a messageplastered on the screen saying that I am rate-limited. What? I don't even tweet that much. In fact, I cannot even remember the last time I tweeted. Is anyone else experiencing this?

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It's a glitch, many people report it in reddit thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/14ntk2k/rate_limit...

For me (web version in Chrome):

Home page - "Something went wrong. Try reloading."

Individual tweets - "Sorry, you are rate limited. Please wait a few moments then try again." + "Something went wrong. Try reloading."

Interestingly, lists still work as usual.

UPD1 There's a spike of reports: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

UPD2 Lists also display "Something went wrong. Try reloading." intermittingly now, spike on downdetector keeps growing

Oh thank Goodness, I thought I was suspended.

Seems to be intentional

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672?s=20

Yeah, I didn't expect that.

UPD HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552324

You have to pay 8 dollars a month now to load/refresh pages more than 5 times per day or post more than once a day.

That's only if there was no videos on the page.

haha

Get you addicted and start charging

Tweet from Elon:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672

I mean, can you just copy it here? Since yesterday nobody can access Twitter without login.

To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:

- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day

- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day

- New unverified accounts to 300/day

Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672?t=w1...

Hi.. i have the same problem.. i cannoz see any tweets on my laptop, but it works on iphone and ipad.. i am using the APP on both and on Macbook i use the Browser... but no matter which browser i use on my laptop.. i am "rate limites".-.. This really sucks, as twitter already closed one of my accountws due to "spamming".. no spam at all. just GA, and engagement.. thats what twitter is made for.. but if they now start censoring, and limiting acconts just for doing what their APP is made for..?? i dont understand??

Ay idea, how i can get into it again?

cheers

Looks like there a reason for it:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672?t=w1...

I see login. That's the reason why?

Saw it right now and I thought Elon masked me as a "bot"

Hes fighting bots but harming actual users

Smth tells me hes not good at handling tech stuff. Hes better a CEO of twitter vs technical role

It's intentional. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-users-bein... It's to prevent web scraping by people trying to avoid paying for API access.

I don’t think it’s intentional. I got a “rate limit exceeded” on the official mobile app while on an account where I follow only 17 people and don’t post anything.

Edit: funny that I have two profiles logged in the same app. One is working, the other is not.

They likely changed something and unintentionally messed things up. Many users are reporting issues, even those using the official Twitter app.

Funny, isn't it. They ruin API access and overcharge for it, so everyone scrapes, and in trying to stop that they ruin the product for the users, without whom it's worth nothing.

Reddit, take note, this is you in 6 months.

NHL Free Agency started today. Lots of people getting hit with the limits. The hockey analysts on TV have been complaining about it. Up until now it's been a big source of this type of information. Not a good look.

Hopefully with what's going on with Reddit and Twitter, people realize the importance of self hosting their own content. Great timing for Bluesky

Same issue here. Only DMs work. Can’t even search.

I think this could actually be kind of a genius way to get power users to pay.

The danger is of course that you lose the content creators.

genius is a strong word

I don't think he'll lose content creators cuz they monetize their content

Paying $8 for em is a biz expense

It's fine that website down. How can it down 3 hrs? Where are the engineers?

Mostly laid off.

Twitter just apparently broke as well, I can't load any tweets

Same for me. Nothing works. It just displays a rate limiting message.

Kind of relieving to see that others are also having this issue.

this is tough for Elon to fight against, companies fighting like dogs for getting the data for free. if he goes too hard, he'll harm harmless users.

Bruh i thought twitter was down

It is down. For many. I also get the "rate limit exceeded" errors, I'm not even a heavy user.

Try to clear cache

happened to me too its very annoying

Yes

Samesies

same here

twitter is down!

is he really charging money to reload it more then 5 times a day?

I have no clue my friend.

Sorry, you are rate limited. Please wait a few moments then try again.i am experience this issue on my Twitter, please any help?

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