Last weekend, Twitter began to go wrong and people saw Elon Musk as the cause of this, since since he bought Twitter, many of his decisions have caused the social network to have more problems. As Musk announced last Saturday, due to server problems, a limit has been implemented to what users can read.
And to the surprise of few, those who pay for Twitter Blue can read more. According to Elon, for a while, users will be able to read 600 tweets a day, and expand that to 6000 if they decide to pay for Twitter Blue.
Does Elon Musk want people on Twitter or not, and if he does, why does he put limits on what you can read?
Many people have jumped to criticize Elon Musk's measure of limiting access to a social network in which many people are supposed to spend more time, as a form of business. It has also been calculated that if you paid for Twitter Blue, you would read all 6000 tweets in just one hour. So, if your work, research or monitoring of a topic consists of reading and consulting messages, the web itself made it impossible for you.
Users, of course, have started to make memes about it. They have even been looking for solutions, and they have found that Tweetdeck allows them to manage a large part of the utilities, and a Chrome extension allows them to use Twitter in the normal way. Problems are still reported on the web and mobile applications.
As it turns out, the whole thing stems from a migration Musk initiated because a deadline with Google Cloud was approaching, after which he would have to pay $1.000 billion. He attempted to migrate, but it wasn't done quickly enough, and that's why Google severely limited their capacity. To address this, the first measure taken was to block content for anyone without an account, meaning that websites that legally mention and embed tweets now display them as inaccessible. As a result, requests were constantly being forwarded, and Musk apparently launched a DDoS attack against himself.
While Twitter went down, the most serious problems arose during two major media events. First, there was the third edition of "La Vela del Año" (The Evening of the Year) , which sold tens of thousands of tickets in just a few minutes at the Civitas Metropolitano, Atlético de Madrid's stadium. Then there was the WWE Money in the Bank event, which was being held outside of Canada or the United States for the first time, allowing a large part of the European audience to watch without having to stay up late. These are just some of the events that many people were unable to follow due to Twitter's server problems and limitations.
