2y ago

Twitter applies temporary reading limits for all users, Elon Musk announces

2y ago

Twitter applies temporary reading limits for all users, Elon Musk announces

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We don't need limits on Lemmy.. most of the time the instances are down
There are rumors that Elon didn't pay his AWS bill: https://mastodon.social/@Danda/110641222122739840
Sounds fair enough if you read some of the articles it's for accounts that read over 6000 posts a dayz so as to combat scraper bots.
Twitter has to manage 3rd parties paying for their API somehow
- 6000 tweets is only for people with Twitter Blue, and it counts scrolling past a series of tweets on your timeline as reading them, so it's really easy to hit that limit even as a paying bootlicker.
  For those of us sane enough to not spend any money on that godforsaken platform, it's only 600 tweets, which is disgustingly easy to hit. Scroll a little through your timeline, open a few tweets to read replies, and you've hit your limit in less than 30 minutes.
  
  Sorry, you're right it's 600 a day, but seriously I don't think that's a problem it's probably doing us a favour too.
  I couldn't imagine spending 30 a day total on Twitter.
  They want people to pay for the platform, this is how they're doing it.

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