TweetDeck is crumbling after Twitter’s rate-limiting failure

Twitter’s power-user focused TweetDeck interface is facing big problems after owner Elon Musk announced Limit on the number of tweets users can view per day. ledge have experienced these issues firsthand with our publication’s Twitter accounts, and Multiple users across platform (Involved At least one Twitter Blue subscriber, Viewed by techcrunch) are reporting seeing a blank interface that is usually filled with tweets. Users are reporting various aspects of the interface breaking, including notifications, mentions, likes and lists not loading.

While users have been reporting problems with Twitter throughout the weekend, problems with TweetDeck are likely to cause problems for professional and power users of Twitter who are looking to build their brands, promote their work and — in the case of many newsrooms. I believe in service. – As a reporting tool.

The issues are believed to be related to the new limit on tweet viewing Elon Musk announced On July 1st. Musk claimed the limits, which he called “temporary”, were necessary to “address the extreme levels of data scraping (and) system manipulation” on the platform. With the new limits in place, verified accounts (essentially those subscribed to Twitter Blue) were limited to reading 6000 posts a day, while other accounts would be limited to 600 or 300 depending on their age.

oysters later announced a hike These range from 10,000 tweets for verified customers and 1,000 to 500 tweets for other users. Away from TweetDeck, Twitter’s main website and apps have been down since Monday morning.

The limits were announced a day after Twitter began blocking unregistered users from reading tweets for similar reasons. “Several hundred organizations (probably more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the extent that it was affecting the actual user experience,” Musk said as justification for change. Musk is probably referring to AI companies here Suggestion They are using Twitter to train large language models.

When contacted for comment, Twitter’s press line responded with an automated poop emoji, as it has done shortly after Elon Musk took over the company and dismantled its communications department.