Another unsurprising shot in the foot for Twitter… certainly limiting how much users can engage with content/see sponsored posts will make more money!
What on earth is this decision? Is there even one possible benefit for this, for anybody?
What makes this self own even better is the code used to limit reading, doesn’t actually limit requests. So Twitter’s users are DDoSing the site with the official app.
These guys think the service they provide is so invaluable, so critical to the lives of their users, that they’re betting on those users’ willingness to shell out for the experience they’re accustomed to.
It doesn’t seem like a winning strategy but he’s desperate to turn a profit off this thing and I don’t think the long term is much of a consideration right now.
