Twitter Restricts Access, Experiences Widespread Blackout

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First, Twitter limited how many characters could go into your posts, stripping the national conversation of any remaining nuance. Now it wants to ration the number of tweets you can see in a day.

To ward off "extreme levels of data scraping" from "several hundred organizations," per owner and current CTO Elon Musk, Twitter on Saturday instituted "rate limits" on how many tweets individual users can see in a day -- all of which, some experts hypothesize, may have triggered the effective sitewide blackout for most users for roughly 24 hours.

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