I mean, just looking at this from a practical stand point, how many people actually look at 600 posts a day, that seems really excessive. I doubt 95% of twitter users are going to hit that limit. Though it would look a lot less like a money grab and more to keep information gathering if he’d made it a flat 6000 across all accounts instead of just the verified ones
I thought the same at first, but apparently anything you scroll past counts as a post. Users are hitting their limits in 5 to 20 minutes.
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.
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
What… Huh?? Twitter is limiting the amount of engagement users are allowed to have? Is that what’s going on here? Do they actually think that this will make more money or are they just really insistent on making Twitter users touch grass?
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.
