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'Rate limit exceeded;' Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site or faced difficulty and delays Saturday.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From my understanding, the posts/day also includes any comments you load up. So, if you're not careful with the more popular Tweets, you could be rate limited in a very quick manner.

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

Which would mean people won't bother with popular tweets people are paying money for to get more views

💀 lol

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