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One thing is significantly incorrect with Twitter proper now, however it’s not clear precisely what. As of Wednesday afternoon, core options together with direct messages and tweets should not working for a big portion of customers.

Whereas some customers are in a position to tweet, many customers obtain messages that they can’t tweet or are “over each day tweet restrict.” The same message seems when attempting to retweet: “Sorry! You’ve gotten exceeded your Tweet restrict. Strive retweeting once more tomorrow.” Making an attempt to comply with accounts additionally throws an error about reaching a “each day restrict”.

Whereas fee capping could be an anti-spam tactic in some circumstances, messages present up even for accounts which have shared comparatively few tweets. In my case, I’ve tweeted lower than two dozen occasions at present and I am getting the errors. In accordance to Twitter, the “technical restrict” of the accounts is 2,400 tweets and 500 direct messages per day. The each day “comply with restrict” is 400. For now, utilizing Twitter’s scheduling characteristic appears to keep away from the difficulty with sending tweets.

Additionally, direct messages are down for a lot of customers. As an alternative of the traditional inbox view, an alert merely says, “One thing went incorrect. Strive reloading.” Beforehand despatched messages are at the moment inaccessible.

It’s not clear what’s the origin of those issues. Twitter, which not has a communications crew, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. The problems arose a day earlier than the corporate shut down the free model of its API, although it is unclear if the 2 points might be associated.

Replace 2/8 6:30 p.m. ET: The power to tweet (with out programming) appears to be again for many customers. The power to ship direct messages or comply with a brand new account doesn’t work but. In a tweet from its help account, Twitter stated that the service “won’t be working as anticipated for a few of you” however didn’t elaborate on the supply of the issues. “We’re conscious and we’re working to repair this.”