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[Update: Late Wednesday night, Musk tweeted in response to a Twitter user asking if the platform was glitching, confirming that Twitter had "multiple internal & external issues simultaneously" and "should be fully back on track later" on Wednesday night. An Ars test this morning confirmed that some Twitter accounts that were previously experiencing reported issues are now able to tweet, DM, and follow accounts.]

Late Wednesday afternoon, Twitter began experiencing international outages, with many users unable to perform basic functions like tweeting, sending direct messages, and following accounts. When Ars reporters attempted to tweet, an error message was generated saying that a daily limit of tweets had been reached, even from accounts that had not tweeted that day. According to Twitter, users typically have to tweet 2,400 times to reach the platform’s daily limit.

Independent Internet monitor NetBlocks tweeted that the outages impacted Twitter's website, mobile app, and features like posting and retweeting and were “not related to country-level Internet disruptions or filtering.”