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Twitter rival Bluesky disables new sign-ups
In an update, the platform said: "We are still working to accommodate the large influx of users and increase in traffic."On Sunday, the platform posted: "Sign ups are currently disabled as is the 'Popular with Friends' feed.
Twitter to soon increase rate limits: Musk
Musk on Saturday said that verified accounts have been limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts will be able to read 600 posts per day and new unverified accounts just 300 posts a day.
Twitter faces global outage, users in a fix
The "cannot retrieve tweets" error message has been reported by many users when they try to view or post a tweet. Besides this, users are also get "rate limit exceeded" message while refreshing the 'For You' tab. According to outage monitor website 'Down Detector', nearly 4,000 reports of issues with Twitter have been logged.
Users cry ‘wake up Elon’ as Twitter goes for a toss for millions
According to outage monitor website 'Down Detector', more than 7,000 users reported issues with Twitter. “Someone wake up Elon and tell him his $44 B app isn't working!” a Twitter user posted. "Me coming to twitter to see why it says 'rate limit exceeded' #TwitterDown," another user wrote. The hashtags #TwitterDown and #RateLimitExceeded were trending on Twitter.
Tech industry sees boom in full-time jobs; dip in part-time opportunities: Report
The data released by leading job portal Indeed showed sluggish job growth in part-time and contractual tech jobs, with only a 3 per cent increase in share from April 2019 to April 2023. During the peak of the data released by leading job portal Indeed showed sluggish job growth in part-time or contractual positions increased by 23 per cent.
Musk claims Twitter hits all-time high user engagement, numbers speak otherwise
Musk on Saturday tweeted that the "platform hit another all-time high in user-seconds last week". The Twitter owner has made such claims in the past too. In April, as part of a BBC interview, Musk said the social media service was seeing record user engagement, and that major advertisers were
returning.
Reddit users bid farewell to favourite apps with heartfelt posts, memes
"Apollo, one of the best iOS apps period. The official app, a buggy, clumsy mess. I'm about to be on reddit a whole lot less," a Reddit user wrote in the post with a meme attached. "The app just stopped working for me. Super sad, so long and thanks for all the Apollo," another user said. One more user posted, saying: "Reddit is already less enjoyable. Apollo was Reddit. No other app has the same level of experience. Such a shame. The official app is exceptionally terrible."
Epic Games CEO says web browsing feels horrible now, Musk replies
Twitter stopped browsing access on its web platform for people without accounts, and they have to first create an account to view twee."The internet feels increasingly broken. News sites are paywalled or account walled, Reddit is nag walled.
Twitter shuts access to people sans accounts, Musk blames data scraping
Elon Musk said on Saturday that this drastic action was necessary due to “extreme levels of data scraping”. However, the move could backfire as if tweets are not publicly accessible, search engine algorithms could rank Twitter’s content lower.
Now securely transfer your full chat history on WhatsApp: Zuckerberg
“More secure than using unofficial third-party apps which lack clear privacy practices, and more private than cloud services, the transfer process is authenticated with a QR code, data is only shared between your two devices, and is fully encrypted during transfer,” said Zuckerberg.
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