This makes no sense.
If you can’t read the above, it says “Sorry! You’ve hit your hourly usage limit. Try again soon.” That’s above a message that says “This user does not exist.” The user in question is @DickHardt, who does exist, as you can see.
Twitter has frozen me out, so I can’t check shit, but I’ll bet I haven’t tweeted more than maybe four times today.
I kinda doubt this is an April Fools thing, since faking a fail isn’t Twitter’s style. (Outright failing is another matter, whales withstanding.)
Clues, anybody?
And if anybody feels like tweeting this, please do. The short URL is http://bit.ly/gqSgMr.
Bonus link: A fun interview by @HowardStern with @Biz Stone. Here’s the audio clip.
[Later…] Seems to be working again. I guessed right: all of four tweets today. Tweeting this will be the fifth.
Okay, I just tweeted this, and now it tells me I’ve exceeded my hourly limit again.
I’m not alone. This is a big problem. It looks like Twitter is taking lessons from AT&T. Not good.
FWIW, some people have asked if I use a tool other than a browser to interact with Twitter. The answer is no. Sometimes I use the Twitter app on the iPhone, but not today.
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Pingback from Friday « Protoblogger on April 1, 2011 at 7:02 pm
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Perhaps your external IP address is being throttled. Some intense Harvard data harvesting project, perhaps.
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Had similar trouble a few nights ago — I was trying to unfollow about 100 and hit my “hourly usage limit” after dropping the first 50ish.
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I got the same same message about my limit being reached a few months ago when I was accessing Twitter on my Android. Never figured out why. I had not tweeted anything that hour (or day).
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Right now, all Twitter is doing is sitting there, while Firefox tells me it’s connecting…
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