Twitter scrambles to fix meltdown as many are unable to tweet or DM

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Many Twitter users found themselves unable to tweet

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 follow accounts or access their direct messages on Wednesday as the Elon Musk

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Users first noticed the problem when they tried to send tweets 

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While Twitter has for years limited the number of tweets an account

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it is 2,400 a day – or 100 an hour 

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far more than most regular, human-run accounts send on the platform

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Accounts also had trouble when they tried to follow another Twitter user

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