Twitter tells users to touch grass, adds new rule limiting how many tweets you can read per day
Twitter tells users to touch grass, adds new rule limiting how many tweets you can read per day
Elon has responded to the criticism and is increasing the limits to a whopping:
Verified accounts: 8000 posts/day
Unverified accounts: 800 posts/day
New unverified accounts: 400 posts/day
There's some interesting context:
In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company’s Google Cloud servers. Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract’s June 30th renewal date. Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google’s infrastructure before the contract expires, but the effort is “running behind schedule,” putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company acquired in 2018 to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline. Engadget, June 11, 2023
I had to look this up, couldn't believe it. I've been pretty indifferent to Musk and Twitter...cause I've been always indifferent to Twitter, but this is crazy. As an example, my city's police and bus services and others all use Twitter to send updates out. And I'm sure it's the same for most places. And now they've essentially lost the ability to mass communicate with people, because they need to be able to reach everyone not just those with an account.
Such a dumb move
Now, this is ridiculous, of course. However, you shouldn't be reading more than 600 tweets a day. I mean, I don't think I've read 600 tweets in my whole LIFE!!
Anyways, mastodon.world.
It seems I am moving to Lemmy just in time then.
A lot of Twitter users are more addicted to Twitter than some people would be addicted to crack. He could charge $1000/mo for unlimited vicious bile and they'd pay it.
I don't see anything wrong here.
Ahh yes, killing your social media by limiting your request per user at a day. Genius. I know that data scrapping is a problem in any social media platform
So people now can’t view Twitter without logging in, but once people are logged in, Twitter only lets them look at a limited number of tweets.
I’m not sure what sense there is for a social media company to keep telling consumers to stop consuming content. Has the Twitter infrastructure become that fragile? Are they running out of tweets? Whatever they are smoking at Twitter HQ they might want to give it a rest.
Something tells me he is exempt from the limit, otherwise he'd hit it by 8am
What a 🤡
Don't you want users to be on the platform as long as possible to maximize ad revenue? If this was just to force people to pay for verification, why wouldn't they make that tier unlimited? I honestly can't even believe this is real.
So a subscription is only 10x more valuable than a non-paying leech?
Someone is desperate to monetize lurkers. That seems like a self-defeating strategy.
In fairness, most Twitter users do need to touch grass...
Seems Elon wants to keep Twitter as his own personal echo chamber and having an exclusive club for like-minded folk willing to pay. Limiting posts is one thing, reading limitations is just crazy.
Touch grass, indeed
When you do the right thing for the wrong reason...
My question is , What is smoking this guy??
If you have 800 posts available and you read a post every 10 seconds, then you can only spend 2,2 hours per day on the site before you can't see new posts.
Twitter basically forces its users to verify their accounts to use the site in a normal way. That will definitly backfire.
That is so cool. Elon is just trying to help.
Has he finally go completely insane? It feels like he wants to kill the platform for some reason
Says the douchbag who wants to colonize Mars & blocking the right to repair for Tesla, someone needs to ELI5 for him what coping mechanisms exist for.
Surprisingly there's a significant rise in outages on the site since he took over, blame-shifting stereotypical.
"Grass" Just more waste of resources.Hypocritic as always really.
He sees 'em lurkin'
He's hatin', patrolin'
Tryin' to catch them dirtygood thing right?