This is hilarious. Not only is today the first day of reddit without third party apps, but Elon shoots himself in the foot by making Twitter unusable.
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Now that seems more likely. Elon has a habit of creating problems and then attributing those problems to completely unrelated stuff so his followers think he’s always right. I originally thought that the backend was starting to finally crumble after he fired more than 75% of the company’s employees, so he had to limit the load on the system. But your explanation seems more logical.