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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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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In an update, he said rate limits would soon increase to 8,000 for verified users, 800 for unverified and 400 for new unverified. About three hours later, he tweeted those numbers were "Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k."

Well that’ll fix everything!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

“Let me just pull some more numbers out my ass!”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

always has been

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That $44 billion ain't gonna turn a profit on itself.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Twitter responded to CNBC’s request for comment with its customary poop emoji.

I never would have believed there was an actual path to this being a factual sentence one year ago.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

this timeline has its ups and downs, to be certain

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Man, when you put it like that …. it just boggles the mind, doesn’t it?

We certainly are living in interesting times.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How can one person do so much damage to a company in such a short amount of time? It’s incredible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd say the more incredible part is how Twitter is still going, and how people are still actively there, in spite of the rolling dumpster fire that's been happening for literally months now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I’m impressed people still use twitter this many months after he bought it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The power of moneeey.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@cloventt @L4s

on purpose, by design, with intent

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Musk is thinking of himself as the genius who creates value even when the whole system is breaking down, due to his own actions. Good for the Internet, go on Musk. Remember to bring u/spez with you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

What a humongous chode.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This is honestly so fucking funny

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I can't wait until he starts trying to single-handedly provide 100% of Twitter's content, too. Probably by mid-week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He's really speedrunning twitter to death.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good. Die before it can interfere with the upcoming election.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He really does just love to YOLO those changes doesn't he 😆

[–] [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.

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't know if it's just me, but all this time something about the big forehead he has makes me think he'd look perfect in a clown make up.

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