Twitter users are faced with a daily post limit

Twitter was down prior to Elon Musk’s $44 billion ($65 billion) acquisition of the platform in October, but the deal left the company billions of dollars in debt. Musk then began a cost-cutting exercise, laying off thousands of employees and disconnecting the company’s servers.

Tesla’s CEO’s management of Twitter has seen advertisers exit the platform and hurt the company’s bottom line at a time when a slowing global economy has triggered a broader advertising downturn.

After promising to respect the results of a poll in which he asked users of the platform whether he should step down, Musk said he would step down from the CEO role once he found a replacement.

Twitter no longer has a media representative in Australia, and Musk has not commented on the user issues.

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