Twitter users run into service issues after Elon Musk imposes daily limits on reading tweets

Advertisers have since curbed their spending on Twitter, partly because of changes that have allowed more sometimes hateful and prickly content that offends a wider part of the service's audience. — AP

SAN FRANCISCO: Thousands of people logged complaints about problems accessing on July 1 after owner Elon Musk limited most users to viewing 600 tweets a day - restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorised scraping of potentially valuable data from the site.

The crackdown began to have ripple effects early Saturday, causing more than 7,500 people at one point to report problems using the social media service, based on complaints registered on Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages. Although that's a relatively small number of Twitter's more than 200 million worldwide users, the trouble was widespread enough to cause the #TwitterDown hashtag to trend in some parts of the world.