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.
Let that trashcan in.
It’s like huffman and musk are sharing ways to screw over users and their platforms. I get a company needs to make money but personally, I don’t think this is the way.
A couple weeks ago I got a new phone and made the choice to not transfer twitter over, because it had become increasingly depressing amd frustrating.
This really just reassures the site is a lost cause. Fuck Elon.
