Twitter outage sees users told they are over daily tweet limit

Some Twitter users were incapable to tweet connected Wednesday aft the website experienced method problems.

Account holders received a connection saying: "You are implicit the regular bounds for sending Tweets."

The outage-tracking website DownDetector reported the glitch astatine conscionable earlier 22:00 GMT.

Elon Musk has slashed Twitter's workforce implicit the past fewer months since helium acquired the level past October for $44bn (£36.5bn).

Last period the Tesla and SpaceX brag said Twitter had astir 2,300 employees - down from astir 8,000 erstwhile helium took over.

For months experts person been informing that specified heavy cuts could origin method issues, though it is not yet wide if the reduced headcount was to blasted for Wednesday's outage.

It appears portion of the outage was soon fixed, with galore users reporting they could tweet.

Some reported being notified by Twitter that they were implicit the 2,400-tweet-per-day limit, adjacent if they had not posted connected Wednesday.

Account holders had besides reported problems with Twitter messages. Several users said they could not entree TweetDeck - a dashboard that tin beryllium utilized with Twitter.

It's not yet wide however galore radical were affected.

"Twitter whitethorn not beryllium moving arsenic expected for immoderate of you. Sorry for the trouble. We're alert and moving to get this fixed," Twitter said.

In caller weeks galore users person complained of bugs portion utilizing Twitter - including immoderate claiming they could summation the scope of tweets if they locked their accounts.

Tech quality website The Information reported that Mr Musk had told Twitter employees to intermission connected caller diagnostic improvement "in favour of maximising strategy stableness and robustness, particularly with the Super Bowl coming up".

Meanwhile, DownDetector besides reported an outage astatine YouTube, which astatine its highest affected a reported 65,000 users.

In a tweet, YouTube - which is owned by Google's genitor institution Alphabet - said it was investigating reports that the website's homepage "is down for immoderate of you".

"We're looking into it... truly atrocious if you're experiencing this," they wrote.