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Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode by reaperducer on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:34PM (#36554145)
Update from Elon: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675214274627530754 > Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400 for new unverified

Well, at least he's engaged over a holiday weekend.

If it was my company, this would be a fifteen meetings, a six-month series of sprints, and we still would only decide on a new color for the icon.

Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode by soneca on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:43PM (#36554259)
I guess a couple of well-run meetings would have prevented this disaster in the first place.
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode by jakelazaroff on Saturday July 01, 2023 @05:00PM (#36555156)
Six months of bureaucratic paralysis would also be better than actually rolling this out.
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode by ssnistfajen on Saturday July 01, 2023 @07:24PM (#36556401)
Sometimes things move slowly for good reason. Wasted meeting minutes is a reasonable tradeoff over rendering the main product unusable like this.