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.
This is all fucking hilarious at this point. He’s stripped any and all value from Twitter. Glad I already put a read limit of 0 in place.
How to dismantle a decent and viable company in any % record time speedrun.
Verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, he tweeted, while unverified accounts are limited to just 600. New unverified accounts are at 300 posts a day.
This is absolute amateur hour. Why are people still trying to use Twitter.
Especially considering the way twitter counts a “view” is if the tweet shows up in your app’s viewport, at all. So simply scrolling through the timeline consumes “views” - you could run up against this limit in 10-15 minutes of scrolling.
It’s incredibly stupid.
This is what I was wondering. I don’t use Twitter so 600 sounds like a lot but I was wondering how much it actually was. Someone else said they blew through it in like 15 minutes
Even 6000 is nothing. I remember when I used to be on the platform for hours per day, following hundreds of active users, and actively sharing to thousand of users… I’m not paying then (wasn’t an option) and I’m not paying now (not interested), but even if I did, I’d go through that in minutes!
Who the fuck posts 300 tweets a day?
Edit: Nvm, I apparantly can’t read lol
This is crazy. I don’t know what Elon is doing. Even limiting his paying users is cringe.
Sounds like a tiered subscription is incoming. My hope is that Twitter implodes completely instead of just becoming a right wing echo chamber like it’s trending towards now.
So, so far this year we’ve got Imgur, who thinks the internet does not run on porn, Twitter who thinks keeping users from their service is a good idea, Reddit who thinks nuking their freely made moderator infrastructure works and Youtube who also thinks randomly banning people who are smart enough to use ad blockers won’t have any effect.
At this point, I’m starting to make up increasingly bizarre theories as to why techbros have suddenly all collectively gone insane. The one I came up with this morning was that they all snorted coke of the same hooker’s ass which was somehow tainted with a brain eating amoeba.
