Thousands of Twitter users on Wednesday were observed to be complaining about not being unable to tweet and encountering a message stating: “You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets.”
Explaining the issue, Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted, “Multiple internal & external issues simultaneously today. Should be fully back on track later tonight.”
As of 5 am IST, over 800 Indian users had flagged the Twitter issue on outage tracker website downdetector.com.
On Wednesday, Twitter support account tweeted that the platform may not be working as expected for some of the users. “Sorry for the trouble. We're aware and working to get this fixed".
In its report, The Information said that Musk asked his Twitter employees to halt work on new feature development "in favour of maximising system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up."
On Thursday, Twitter rolled out its premium subscription “Blue” for users in India, Brazil and Indonesia.
Twitter Blue is now available in India at a price of Rs 650 per month on the web and Rs 900 on Android and iOS mobile devices.