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Elon Musk is a South-African born Canadian-American engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, born in 1971. He was a co-founder of PayPal, which was sold to Ebay for $1.5 billion. He then founded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Tesla Motors. He is chief executive and chief designer at SpaceX and CEO and head of product design at Tesla and chairman of Solar City. Musk purchased Twitter in September 2022.

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8 Feb, 2023

Massive Twitter outage

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Many users find they cannot tweet, retweet, quote tweet and direct message on Twitter, with users recieving messages such as:

You are over the daily limit for sending tweets

Some users could not access their direct message, with the tab only showing the message “something went wrong.”

Musk sends a brief email to Twitter staff, instructing them to “pause new feature development” in order to ensure “system stability and robustness”.