Thousands of users report problems accessing Twitter

Thousands of users reported problems arsenic they tried to entree Twitter Saturday, marking the latest wide outage since CEO Elon Musk acquired the societal media tract precocious past year.

Many users who tried to entree oregon station contented connected Twitter's website oregon mobile app were met with a "Rate bounds exceeded" oregon "Cannot retrieve tweets" mistake message. As of 11 a.m. ET, much than 7,300 radical reported issues with Twitter to the website Downdetector.

Twitter responded to CNBC's petition for remark with its customary poop emoji.

Saturday's outage is not the archetypal clip Twitter has suffered method difficulties successful caller months. In February, users were incapable to station connected the tract for astir 90 minutes aft receiving a connection that read, "You are implicit the regular bounds for sending Tweets." In March, users were temporarily incapable to click connected links oregon load images.

Other outages coincided with reports of a data halfway closure and massive layoffs astatine Twitter, which Musk claimed were indispensable for the fiscal wellness of the company.

It is unclear erstwhile Saturday's outage volition beryllium resolved.