A widespread outage on Twitter is preventing thousands of users from using the social networking site. When attempting to see or post a tweet, many users have complained that they receive the "Cannot retrieve tweets" error message. Another issue that some users saw was a "Rate limit exceeded error message."
Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, commented on the outage by stating that they have "applied temporary limits" to its customers.
Twitter hasn't yet offered an explanation for the root of the issue, though. As soon as we hear back from them, we'll update this story. Check back often for updates.
Over 4,000 instances of problems with Twitter have been registered thus far, according to Down Detector, a website that monitors internet service outages.
Thousands of users visited the micro-blogging website to discuss their experiences after the brief outage. Some people circulated memes that showed Twitter's CEO Elon Musk hard at work trying to rebuild the website. Many of the tweets were amusing pieces, including memes about the outage that featured well-known K-pop singers and comedians.
This is the third time the platform has experienced downtime. On March 6, it was noted that links stopped working, some users were unable to log in, and photos were not loading for other users on Twitter. Similar to this, it was reported on February 8 that some Twitter users discovered themselves unable to tweet, follow accounts, or view their direct messages as the Elon Musk-owned platform encountered a number of technical issues.
The meaning of "rate limit exceeded" ?
I see myself getting this question increasingly frequently, so I thought I'd give you a quick rundown on what it is, why it exists, and what can be done about it.
The number of times the Twitter API can be used in an hour is capped by Twitter in order to manage usage of the service (which supplies twitter data for 3rd party Twitter applications like TweetDeck). You have a cap of 100 API requests per hour regardless of which Twitter applications you use; it is NOT 100 API calls per application. This cap applies to your Twitter account rather than the programmes that contact the API. It is also crucial to keep in mind that the twitter.com website does not use its own API (mmm doesn't seem especially fair), thus there are no restrictions there. Instead, this limit only applies to third-party Twitter applications.
UPDATE: Third-party applications broadly refer to ANY software where you've entered your Twitter username and password. They obviously include desktop and web-based twitter clients, but they also include less-obvious applications like the widget on your blog that displays the most recent tweets you've made, the Facebook Twitter application that posts your tweets to your Facebook status, etc.
What therefore qualifies as an API call? Every action that interacts with Twitter technically constitutes an API call; however, what we really need to know is which API calls affect the cap of 100 calls. The simplest way to think about this is that your limit will be affected by each time you use the Twitter API to request data. Therefore, accessing a Twitter user's profile would require two calls (one for the profile itself and one for the archive of their sent tweets), just as updating the All Tweets, Replies, or Direct Messages columns would.
You can keep sending data to Twitter (posting), even after your rate limit has been reached, by updating your profile, sending a direct message, favoriting a tweet, or unfollowing or following others. Additionally, as the data does not (directly) come from the Twitter API, updates to the search, groups, twitscoop, and 12seconds columns do not count towards the rate limit.
If you make all 100 API calls in an hour, TweetDeck will display the message "rate limit exceeded" and Twitter won't post any updates until the hour is over. In TweetDeck, it will seem as though the All Tweets, Replies, and DM columns are frozen. The rate cap will be reset at the end of the hour, and updates will resume. In TweetDeck's upper right corner, you can see the current status of your rate limit.
What can you do, then, to prevent receiving the warning "rate limit exceeded" and what should you do if you do? Unfortunately, not a lot. Although TweetDeck does not enforce this restriction, I would recommend the following to lessen the risk:
Run only one Twitter programme at a time, and make sure the others are closed even if you aren't using them.
Refreshing frequently will cost you three calls every click (including tweets, replies, and direct messages).
UPDATE: You can get fewer updates but use less API by dropping the total% in the settings window's Twitter API tab to between 60 and 70%.
Make a note of the reset time displayed in the top right corner of TweetDeck if you receive the rate limit exceeded notification because TweetDeck won't receive any updates until then (so it might be a good time to fetch a coffee). you CAN keep sending messages, but you won't receive any feedback.
Additionally, if the rate limit is exceeded, shut down your Twitter programmes and restart them at the time of the reset (see above).
RELEASED: Excellent counsel from @warzabidul Get individuals to reset their passwords (on the Twitter website) if they are experiencing limit issues.My experience with changing my Twitter password was positive.
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