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As thousands of Twitter users reported problems attempting to access the social media site Saturday, Elon Musk tweeted he is limiting the daily number of tweets users can read.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He really does just love to YOLO those changes doesn't he ๐Ÿ˜†

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I heard he didn't renew the contract for Google server hosting and Twitter can't handle the traffic now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've seen proof that embedded tweets have no concept of rate limiting, and are DDOSing twitter servers just by trying to load content.