Elon Musk Decides to Smother Twitter With a Pillow in Broad Daylight

Twitter is teetering

Lawson Miller
ILLUMINATION
Published in
3 min readJul 3, 2023

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Caricature of Elon Musk
Caricature of Elon Musk / Photo by DonkeyHotey / Wikimedia Commons / (CC BY 2.0)

On the morning of Saturday, July 1, 2023, I opened the Twitter app to discover that no new tweets were loading in my feed. The last tweets I could see were from hours ago. Whenever I refreshed, I got the “rate limit exceeded” message. I couldn’t even look at my own tweets. I assumed it was just one of the many

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Lawson Miller
ILLUMINATION

Legal professional. Historian. MA in history from Arizona State University. MLS from S.J. Quinney College of Law at the UofU.