Twitter staff layoff takes a toll as services meltdown.

On Wednesday, a large number of Twitter users discovered that they were unable to tweet, follow accounts, or view their direct messages as the Elon Musk-owned network encountered a number of significant technical issues.

For some of you, Twitter may not be functioning as it should. Thanks for your patience. We are aware of the issue and are working to remedy it,” the business tweeted from its “support” account.

On Wednesday, more information was not accessible, and an email to the company’s press account requesting comment received no response. The Twitter media relations department has been disbanded.

Users became aware of the issue when they attempted to send a tweet and were notified that they had reached their “tweet limit.”

Even while Twitter has long had a cap on the number of tweets an account may send, the current limit is 2,400 per day, or 100 per hour, which is much more than the majority of normal, human-run accounts on the platform.

The warning “You are unable to follow more people at this time” appeared when users attempted to follow another Twitter user, and it included a link to the company’s follow-limit policy.

An average Twitter user would typically follow more accounts than the 400-account limit that Twitter has in place for users to follow in a single day.

Although the exact cause of Wednesday’s meltdown is unknown, Twitter engineers and industry experts have been warning that the platform is more susceptible to failure now that Musk has sacked the majority of the staff members responsible for keeping it operational.

Since far over two-thirds of the San Francisco-based company’s pre-Musk core services engineers appear to have left, engineers who left Twitter have already explained that they anticipate significant unhappiness for Twitter’s more than 230 million users.

Even though they don’t foresee a near-term collapse, the experts warned that Twitter might become exceedingly unreliable — particularly if Musk makes significant modifications without conducting adequate off-platform testing.

One engineer from Twitter who had previously worked in core services told the reporters in November that before even further resignations, engineering team clusters had shrunk from approximately 15 workers before Musk — not including team leaders, who were all laid go — to three or four.

More accumulated wisdom that cannot be replaced overnight then walked out the door.

Everything might malfunction, the coder warned.