Elon Musk is not the flavour of the month with Love Island viewers (Picture: AFP)
Love Island fans have demanded that Elon Musk immediately reverse his new Twitter rules before Casa Amor kicks off.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, 52, announced a temporary limit on the number of tweets users can read in a day on Saturday to much backlash.
Unverified accounts can only read 600 posts a day, with new unverified accounts limited to just 300 per day, in a measure purportedly designed to ‘address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation.’
Among those bashing Elon’s controversial and unexpected move were Love Island viewers – who now fear that their enjoyment of the show will be ruined by the limits.
They were particularly outraged the measure was introduced ahead of the proper reintroduction of Casa Amor, which will see former islander Molly Marsh return.
Molly Marsh is returning to Casa Amor (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)
‘How are we going to enjoy #loveisland and #bigbrothernaija all stars? Elon you will crumble,’ one fan fumed.
‘Reading limit right before casa amor??? I’m sick,’ another chimed in, while a third raged: ‘Elon Musk is so wicked for doing this during casa period #LoveIsland.’
Many others expressed their anger at the prospect of not being able to watch Love Island with the rest of the nation, with a viewer saying reading ‘unhinged tweets’ was their highlight of the show.
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Fans are preying Elon reverses his decision before Casa Amor (Picture: ITV)
In the UK, a peak of 5,126 people complained of problems accessing the site at 4.12pm on Saturday after reported outages started coming in at 12pm, according to the website Downdetector – which tracks online outages.
In the US, some 7,461 people complained of issues as of 4.15pm UK time, the site notes.
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#Twitterdown and RIP Twitter began trending as frustrated users were faced with a message saying ‘Rate limit exceeded. Please wait a few moments then try again’.
Love Island continues on ITV2 tomorrow at 9pm.
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