Twitter users globally report multiple site issues, including seeing “rate limit exceeded” or “cannot retrieve tweets” error messages
Twitter has been hit by a global outage that is preventing thousands of users from accessing the social media platform.
The Indian Express
Context & Ripple Effects
This disruption sits in a recurring record of Twitter service failures: a March 2023 outage that stopped timelines loading and earlier incidents affecting notifications, engagement counts, and TweetDeck functions show that the platform’s core experience has periodically been unavailable or degraded.
The significance is the breadth of the failure. When a single service is a primary real-time publishing and monitoring venue, access errors immediately affect both ordinary users and organizations that depend on its feed.
First-order effects
Users cannot reliably load or retrieve posts, interrupting reading, publishing, and real-time conversation on Twitter.
Organizations using Twitter for updates or audience interaction lose a dependable channel until access is restored.
Second-order effects
Publishers, brands, and public-facing teams may shift urgent updates and audience support to other channels while Twitter is impaired.
Repeated outages raise the operational value of maintaining parallel distribution and monitoring channels rather than treating one platform as continuously available.
Third-order effects
If service interruptions persist alongside tighter control of access, Twitter’s role as a default real-time information layer could weaken in favor of more diversified publishing strategies.
The episode underscores the platform-gatekeeper problem: failures or policy changes at one centralized service can abruptly constrain communication for its dependent users.
The trend: This is one data point in the broader shift from treating major social platforms as reliable public infrastructure to managing them as controlled, fallible distribution channels.
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Elon Musk screaming “RATE LIMIT EXCEEDED, RATE LIMIT EXCEEDED!"over and over at a team of absolutely exhausted engineers who have been bathing in the office bathroom sinks for weeks.
So my ‘rate limit exceeded’ on Twitter. How? I scarcely go there. Is this just more pay musk or else BS? @pfrazee.com I think you're gonna have a lot more requests to come on here. How's the opening up going? I hope we all get over here before the election stuff gets really …
Last time Twitter had a major fuckup, @bsky.app sent out a round of invite codes to everyone. I wonder if they'll do the same with today's “rate limit exceeded” mess.
I just got a “Rate limit exceeded” message. I have never, ever gotten a message like that before. The last thing I did was RT an article yesterday and hit refresh this morning to see what was what over there.
imagine seeing one of europe's largest countries have an escalating political crisis, owning the communication medium that all the live players will use to make sense of it, and turning it off
I remember when Elon fired most of the Twitter staff there was so much gloom about Twitter's future from the haters, but now half a year later Elon has gotten rid of all the bots, and Twitter runs more smoothly than ever. Maybe stupid to doubt the richest genius to ever live?
@theinformation ... After Musk put tweets behind a registration wall, claiming scraping is degrading UX — despite a decade+ of it not being a stated issue! — there's a global outage. People cannot retrieve tweets & get “rate limit exceeded.” https://indianexpress.com/... No statu…
Rate Limit Exceeded = Elon testing some new Nazi plug-in while the six people left at Twitter who aren't allowed to take breaks have to piss into empty Brawndo bottles as they desperately try to hold the site together with bridge trolls & paperclips.
Oh no... I just tweeted at a leading Finnish journalist called Salla and that triggered “Rate Limit Exceeded” on my browser Twitter as well. So switching to browser version only helps for a while. Conserve your tweets people!!
Twitter outage leads to chaos, users face ‘cannot retrieve tweets’ error https://indianexpress.com/... via @IndianExpress “Twitter has not yet acknowledged the outage or provided any explanation for the cause of the problem.” @elonmusk @lindayacc?