<p>Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Saturday faced a major outage globally, which is preventing thousands of users from accessing the social media platform.</p>.<p>The "cannot retrieve tweets" error message has been reported by many users when they try to view or post a tweet. Besides this, users are also get "rate limit exceeded" message while refreshing the 'For You' tab.</p>.<p>According to outage monitor website 'Down Detector', nearly 4,000 reports of issues with Twitter have been logged.</p>.<p>"Me coming to twitter to see why it says 'rate limit exceeded' #TwitterDown," a user wrote.</p>.<p>"Twitter engineers hard at work trying to figure out why everyone keeps getting Rate Limit Exceeded messages," another user added.</p>.<p>A user commented, "Is Twitter down? Anyone getting the same issue? Can't open the comments section".</p>
<p>Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Saturday faced a major outage globally, which is preventing thousands of users from accessing the social media platform.</p>.<p>The "cannot retrieve tweets" error message has been reported by many users when they try to view or post a tweet. Besides this, users are also get "rate limit exceeded" message while refreshing the 'For You' tab.</p>.<p>According to outage monitor website 'Down Detector', nearly 4,000 reports of issues with Twitter have been logged.</p>.<p>"Me coming to twitter to see why it says 'rate limit exceeded' #TwitterDown," a user wrote.</p>.<p>"Twitter engineers hard at work trying to figure out why everyone keeps getting Rate Limit Exceeded messages," another user added.</p>.<p>A user commented, "Is Twitter down? Anyone getting the same issue? Can't open the comments section".</p>