2023-02-08T23:13:02.227Z

Twitter is still down! Kind of, depending on how you access it. According to the site Is It Down Right Now, Twitter is down as of the start of this Live Blog. We love covering Twitter drama, and we’ll be updating you with news on what’s happening with Twitter, whether this is part of a planned change event, or if something has gone horribly wrong. 

Right now you can still access Twitter.com from a desktop browser like Chrome. Some mobile users are reporting total failure when trying to access the site. Even if you can access Twitter, the trouble has only begun. 

You cannot send an immediate Tweet right now without getting a warning message. You can schedule a tweet for the future, even if it’s only one minute. You can’t retweet, but you can Like tweets. 

The problem started when users got hit with a brand new warning saying “You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets.” I’m guessing that Elon Musk is about to initiate a Tweet limit, and we’ll have the privilege of paying if we want to tweet more. My guess is that the feature rolled out early, or incomplete, or buggy, or all of the above. 

We will see if anything changes on Twitter.com and the mobile apps and keep you posted if Twitter or its ambition CEO have anything to say. 

2023-02-08T23:04:06.787Z

The hashtag #TwitterDown saw a similar spike on Twitter itself, indicating that at least some people were able to tweet through it.

2023-02-08T23:02:03.580Z

According to Downdetector, as many as 9,449 reports of Twitter error came in around 5PM EST. Many users were getting errors saying that they’ve reached their daily limits for tweets, something we can confirm. 

The problem seems to extent to both the Twitter mobile app as well as desktop users, and it is affecting retweets and DMs as well.

2023-02-08T22:52:41.605Z

Twitter is down across the world right now and we’re busy digging into what has caused the widespread outage affecting at least the US and UK.