TL;DR: Twitter limits verified accounts to reading 6000 posts a day, unverified accounts to 600

22 points

Sheldon Chang at Mastodon properly found the actual reason for the rate limit https://mastodon.social/@sysop408@sfba.social/110639436283129914

Maybe they can call one of the fired Devs

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7 points

That explanation is patently idiotic, and so almost certainly true.

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3 points

That’s crazy if true, Twitter rationing access for users because Twitter itself is falling apart.

Twitter is looking like it is becoming a failed state of social media.

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1 point

That’s hilarious!!

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11 points

At this point if you still use twitter you are a moron.

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If your aim is to convince the users still on the platform to leave the platform, then calling them morons is not a great strategy.

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before too tbh

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6 points

He claimed that the social media platform was “getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users”.

It turns out that managing one of the largest websites in the world requires more than a skeleton crew!

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Looks like there might be a large migration from Twitter to Mastodon soon.

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Already hit my limit in like 30 min

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