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Several users are experiencing difficulties accessing Twitter as the micro-blogging platform appears to be down for them.

As per the outage monitoring website Downdetector.com, users started reporting problems around 5PM. Subsequently, the volume of complaints started to increase and at present—even after 10PM—users are still encountering difficulties while using the Elon Musk-owned platform.

Considering that the outage began impacting users at approximately 5PM and continues to affect them, this is one of the lengthiest periods of downtime experienced by the micro-blogging platform—currently reaching about 4 hours at the time of writing. Twitter has not yet acknowledged the outage or provided any statements regarding the issue.

Twitter users are complaining of a variety of issues, ranging from being unable to retrieve tweets to receiving the error message “rate limit exceeded.”

The hashtag #TwitterDown is also trending on Twitter, and it appears that not everyone is having problems with the platform. We can access the website and the iOS app without issue.

Update: Elon Musk tweeted that Twitter has applied “temporary limits” to address “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation.” It is possible that the “rate limit exceeded” issues are caused by this temporary limitation. Verified users are limited to reading 6000 posts per day, unverified accounts are limited to 600 posts per day, and new unverified accounts can only read 300 posts per day.