- Twitter was down for a lot of customers for a number of hours on Saturday.
- There have been greater than 13,000 studies of outages within the US and UK, per DownDetector.
- The trigger was unknown, however got here lower than a day after different current modifications to Twitter.
Twitter appeared to go down on Saturday for tens of hundreds of customers.
Based on outage monitoring web site DownDetector, almost 13,000 US customers reported points with accessing the location, together with greater than 5,300 outages reported within the UK.
Customers tweeted to say the location had been unavailable once they have been in a position to regain entry. Some mentioned they obtained a notification that learn: “Sorry, you might be price restricted. Please wait a couple of moments then strive once more.”
The time period “Fee Restrict Exceeded” was trending on the platform Saturday, with hundreds of tweets despatched out utilizing the phrase.
Twitter proprietor Elon Musk tweeted Friday night time that it needed to “deliver giant numbers of servers on-line on an emergency foundation” after AI firms have been scraping “excessive ranges” of knowledge from the platform.
The massive language fashions that energy AI bots like ChatGPT are skilled by studying an immense quantity of content material that’s pulled from throughout the web, and Musk has taken a hostile stance to AI firms coaching their LLMs on Twitter knowledge with out paying for it.
It got here after customers complained that they could not view tweets with out logging in and could not share tweet previews with a hyperlink. Musk later mentioned that was a short lived measure to cease firms from scraping knowledge from Twitter.
It is not identified if Saturday’s outage was associated to the modifications made Friday, however a few of Twitter’s current string of outages and glitches since Musk took over have been brought on by a small mistake or change to the platform, Insider beforehand reported.
Twitter didn’t reply to a request for remark from Insider, because it modified its coverage for interacting with the media earlier this yr.
