TweetDeck is DOWN: Dashboard crashes as Twitter limits the number of posts users can read

Twitter users who rely on the dashboard app TweetDeck to manage their accounts are being left frustrated on Monday morning.

The widely-used app appeared to crash worldwide, although the main Twitter website looks to be functioning without issues. 

Users took to Twitter to share their anger, with one sarcastically posting ‘Thanks for an awesome tweetdeck’ with a shot of the app’s broken interface. 

Another person said the only column working for them on TweetDeck is for Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s tweets. 

It follows Musk’s plans to limit the amount of tweets that users can see on the platform if they are not signed up for Twitter’s paid subscription service.

Another person said the only column working for them on TweetDeck is for Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s tweets

TweetDeck appears to have crashed worldwide, although the main Twitter website looks to be functioning without issues

TweetDeck was acquired by Twitter for $40 million in 2011 after operating as its own independent application.

It consists of a series of customisable columns, which can be set up to display the user’s Twitter timeline, mentions, direct messages, hashtags or even all tweets by a single user. 

TweetDeck is designed for desktop and typically displays many tweets on the screen at any one time – usually 20 or even more. 

So it’s possible Monday’s problems are related to Musk’s new measures to limit the amount of tweets people can see if they are not paying for Twitter. 

One user questioned ‘if Elon has killed off TweetDeck’ which would no longer make Twitter ‘a place for breaking news’. 

They continued: ‘I’d actually pay for a stupid blue tick if it granted TweetDeck access.’

Another asked: ‘Did Musk destroyed #Tweetdeck in his Idiocy?’ 

Elon Musk – who regularly takes to Twitter to provide updates about the platform – is yet to comment on the outage. 

Has Elon Musk’s tinkering with the platform caused a slew of technical glitches?

It’s unclear if the outage is related to changes introduced by Twitter and announced by Musk at the weekend

Musk announced measures to limit the amount of tweets people can see if they are not paying for Twitter

A multitude of changes introduced by Musk since he took over Twitter in October are thought to be part of attempts to get users to subscribe to Twitter Blue, the platform’s monthly subscription service. 

In the UK, Twitter Blue costs £9.60 per month for desktop and £11 for iOS and Android and adds a blue tick next to a user’s name, to indicate that their account is ‘verified’. 

Other features that are exclusive to Twitter Blue subscribers include the ability to edit tweets, undo a tweet immediately after posting it and post tweets up to 280 characters. 

Now, Musk has revealed that non-Twitter Blue subscribers are limited to reading 600 tweets per day, compared with 6,000 for subscribers. 

He said the new limits would ‘address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation’ and called them ‘temporary’.