Twitter Adds Limits To Daily Tweets, DMs, Follows. Could The Latest Outage Be A Result?

Daily tweets are limited to 2,400 per day, while DMs are limited to 500 per day.

Twitter Support stated that the company is working to get the outage fixed.

Twitter users across the globe have been complaining of being unable to tweet, follow new accounts, or even use Tweetdeck on Thursday. Now, this could be a result of the new usage limits silently implemented by Twitter recently. 

As per Twitter’s Help page, the microblogging platform has put in several usage limits. These include: 

• Direct Messages (DMs) are limited to 500 per day.
• Daily tweets are limited to 2,400 per day. Retweets are counted as regular tweets.
• The daily tweet limit also includes further limits for semi-hourly intervals. No further details announced on this yet.
• Users can only make four changes to their account email per hour.
• The technical follow limit is now 400 per day. The company said on its help page, “Please note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behaviour.”
• If you’re following 5,000 other accounts, any further attempts to follow others will be limited by “account-specific ratios.”

The page also said that in case a user reaches any of the abovementioned limits, Twitter will “let you know with an error message telling you which limit you’ve hit.” 

Now, users have been flagging outage issues on the platform where a popup is telling them, “Sorry! You have exceeded your Tweet limit. Try Retweet again tomorrow.” 

I was locked out 24 hours to determine if I was a bot about 3 years ago, for "excessive re-Tweets". Looks like this is an internet glitch tho. Probably something to do with #ChineseSpyBallon transmitting super viruses across the country. "Did Twitter"

— jofraw (@jofraw) February 8, 2023

Twitter Support stated that the company is working to get the issue fixed.

Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you. Sorry for the trouble. We're aware and working to get this fixed.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) February 8, 2023

So, it’s safe to speculate that the latest Twitter outage is just a result of the new Twitter limits being implemented. The popup messages that users are getting may not be caused due to their actions on the platform, but due to the sitewide changes being implemented across regions. 

Usually, any changes made to Twitter (or any other similar online platform, for that matter) are rolled out in batches of updates, which might affect normal usage. 

Only a few months ago, when Twitter introduced coloured badges to help separate individual accounts from organisational accounts (Blue badge, Gold badge, etc.), there were several instances when individual account users will get a Gold badge beside their name, which was meant for organisations — and vice versa. 

That issue persisted for several days until all the creases were ironed out by Twitter’s tech team. 

It could be possible that the recent issue could be stemming from the newly announced limitations. Since Twitter or CEO Elon Musk is yet to confirm the development, this report should be considered with a pinch of salt.