Twitter appears to be recovering after users spent hours on Wednesday evening reporting various errors, with the app and site throwing up errors about exceeded rate limits, failing to fetch new tweets, or appearing to be completely broken.
DownDetector.com showed a spike of around 10,000 outage reports noted for Twitter, with reports starting just after 7:30PM ET. By around 10:30PM ET, that number had dropped to less than 1,000 reports.
It’s unclear what caused the issues — the Twitter Support account hasn’t mentioned the glitchiness, though, at around midnight ET, Musk tweeted that the company had rolled out “significant backend server architecture changes” to make the site feel faster.
It’s possible the downtime was caused by some…