The Unreliable Access of Social Media on Twitter after the Twitter Data Loss: An Insight from Musk and a Time-Varying Expert

The restrictions follow Twitter’s announcement that it would require users to sign up for or log into an existing account on the site to be able to view tweets. He said that the move was a “temporary emergency measure,” and that hundreds of organizations were doing data analysis that was affecting user experience.

Now, regardless of how you try to access the website — be that the homepage or a direct link to a tweet or profile — you’re immediately met with a sign-in prompt that completely obscures your view. The content is not teased with a swift re-direct. You can’t see anything.

It’s not certain if this is an intentional update or another technical glitch at the moment. The changes that are being made are not in keeping with what owner Elon Musk has done in the past year. Musk hired George Hotz, a notediPhone hacker, to get rid of the login prompt and fix the search feature on the website. Hotz resigned less than halfway through his 12-week internship with the company, claiming he “didn’t think there was any real impact I could make there.” In April this year, Twitter then eliminated the platform’s search feature for unregistered users entirely.

If this is the case, visitors are being pushed harder to become regular users and sign up for the Blue subscription of the popular social network. Free account holders can access publicly posted tweets and other information, but many of the features that enhance user experience are locked behind a Twitter Blue subscription, which could soon add more core features to the platform. The company could use the money it got from users paying for premium features in order to bolster its advertising revenue which fell by 59 percent compared to the previous year.

Many people who tried to view, search, refresh and post content on the platform were met with error messages that read, “Rate limit exceeded” or “Cannot retrieve tweets.”

More than 7,400 people reported a problem accessing Twitter as of about 11 a.m. ET, according the website Downdetector. That number fell by about 1,000 reports by early afternoon.

“Verified” accounts will soon be limited to reading 8,000 posts per day and unverified accounts limited to 800 tweets per day, Musk said. The limit on new, unverified accounts is 400 per day.

The recent limitation on users, as well as the fact that users will pay more money to get a “verified” account, has made many users think that it’s a ploy to get them to pay more money for a better experience.

Musk said that the layoffs at the company were necessary for the company to survive. The site’s revenue has fallen since Space X and the CEO acquired the company.