Elon Musk tweeted that the site has applied temporary limits 'to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation.'
Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site, or faced difficulty and delays, Saturday.
Reports of outages began around 8 am EST, according to DownDetector, and shot up through the morning. As of noon EST, DownDetector showed more than 7,400 outage reports across the website. Verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, he tweeted, while unverified accounts are limited to just 600. New unverified accounts are at 300 posts a day.
Many expressed their frustration ith the connection problems. Other trending topics in the US included: "Wtf twitter" and "Thanks Elon."
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