Thousands of Twitter customers on Wednesday (Thursday in PH) reported issues utilizing the platform because the Elon Musk-owned social community started letting paying customers put up tweets so long as 4,000 characters.
“Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you,” the corporate stated in a tweet.
“Sorry for the trouble. We’re aware and working to get this fixed.”
Reports of Twitter troubles spiked at web site Downdetector early afternoon in Silicon Valley, and continued for about two hours.
Users complaints shared on-line included being unable to put up messages, being advised that they had exceeded a day by day restrict of tweets, and incapability to ship direct messages.
A day by day restrict of two,400 tweets per day was put in place at Twitter to scale back pressure on its operations, in keeping with US media.
People additionally reported that TweetDeck, the favored dashboard for managing and viewing Twitter accounts, had stopped working.
The disruptions got here on the identical day Twitter added a size perk to its Blue subscription service costing $8 month-to-month within the United States.
Twitter Blue subscribers can now put up tweets of as much as 4,000 characters, far past the 280-character restrict imposed on non-paying customers, the tech agency stated.
“But don’t worry, Twitter is still Twitter,” the tech agency stated in a prolonged tweet saying the perk.
“We know longer Tweets could mean a lot of scrolling, so they’ll be capped at 280 characters on your timeline and you’ll see a ‘Show more’ prompt to click and read the whole Tweet.”
Musk slashed Twitter’s workforce late final yr after he turned proprietor of the San Francisco-based firm, elevating issues about having sufficient engineering expertise readily available to maintain the platform operating easily.
US tech media reported Wednesday that Musk put out phrase to Twitter workers to place apart work on new options to deal with troubleshooting. —Agence France-Presse
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
