Twitter was down for about 90 minutes Wednesday, telling users they’d hit their daily limit on posts

Many Twitter customers on Wednesday afternoon had been unable to put up on the positioning for about 90 minutes, receiving a message that learn, “You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets.”

Tweets additionally could not be posted from cell phones. A message pops up saying, “Tweet not sent” adopted by, “We’re sorry we weren’t able to send your tweet. Would you like to retry or save this tweet in drafts?” Users additionally weren’t capable of ship or load direct messages.

The service was principally again up by a couple of minutes after 6 p.m. Eastern time, though direct messages had been nonetheless not largely out there. The internet-tracking service Downdetector confirmed that the variety of customers submitting Twitter drawback studies skyrocketed beginning round 4:30 p.m.

While the positioning was down, customers had been capable of tweet by scheduling their posts utilizing the calendar icon on the backside of the message field.

Twitter hasn’t introduced any replace to its every day limits, and the error appears to be the results of a short lived glitch, primarily based on a Tweet from the corporate later within the day.

“Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you,” the corporate wrote from the Twitter Support account. “Sorry for the trouble. We’re aware and working to get this fixed.”

The firm did not reply to a request for remark.

According to Twitter’s web site, the corporate limits the variety of tweets that individuals can ship to 2,400 per day. The every day restrict for direct messages is 500.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has fired roughly 80% of the corporate’s workforce since he acquired the corporate in late October. According to inner data considered by CNBC, Twitter now has roughly 1,300 lively working staff, which incorporates fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title.

The firm additionally just lately shut down a knowledge middle in Sacramento, California, as a option to reduce prices, The New York Times reported in late December.

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