The billionaire said the new limits were set to 'to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation.'
This led to people tweeting "Rate Limit Exceeded" and "#TwitterDown" with the two sentences becoming the top trending topics on the app in the U.S. for those who had access to it. The first sentence had been shared over 40,000 times as of Saturday noon.
This led many to signal their growing frustration with the new limits resulting in trending topics such as "Wtf twitter" and "Thanks Elon."
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