Elon has responded to the criticism and is increasing the limits to a whopping:
Verified accounts: 8000 posts/day
Unverified accounts: 800 posts/day
New unverified accounts: 400 posts/day
There’s some interesting context:
In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company’s Google Cloud servers. Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract’s June 30th renewal date. Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google’s infrastructure before the contract expires, but the effort is “running behind schedule,” putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company acquired in 2018 to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline. Engadget, June 11, 2023
Excuse me for a second.
Buahahahahahahahahwhahahahahah!
So tl;dr appears to be - Elon refuses to pay Twitter hosting bills, migration plans to a different provider fall behind as pretty much all of the technical talent has been fired or quit, inevitably gets throttled by GCP for non-payment and then introduces “emergency measures” by throttling their user base themselves to try and mitigate it all. The man truly is a visionary.
Spot on mate.
We should all switch to Mastodon
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Lol
So a subscription is only 10x more valuable than a non-paying leech?
My question is , What is smoking this guy??
It’s been fascinating to watch Elon test how much Twitter’s user base will tolerate.
Also fascinating that there are people that still use Twitter
It’s funny to me how a lot of twitter posters said they were gonna go to mastodon, but quickly went back when they realized they weren’t getting the same engagement.
Makes sense, since Twitter draw seemed to me more for self promotion with nobody really caring about the user comments unlike reddit. Pretty why I just relied on rss for Twitter, and didn’t bother with the account. Same for Instagram and tiktok too.
Someone is desperate to monetize lurkers. That seems like a self-defeating strategy.
In fairness, most Twitter users do need to touch grass…
Seems Elon wants to keep Twitter as his own personal echo chamber and having an exclusive club for like-minded folk willing to pay. Limiting posts is one thing, reading limitations is just crazy.
It’s funny because if he’s trying to reduce costs, letting people upload 2 hour videos probably costs far more than having your website be accessible to people not logged in LMAO
Text feed are the lightest weight most cachable thing you can serve. The costliest part of the text component is the mixer that ranks the content. The companies scraping them don’t care about the ranking they just want bulk tweets. That’s what the API is for. Elon charged them insane rates so they all went off the API that cost Twitter a tiny fraction to serve and instead the API consumers switched to crawling the website instead, which costs Twitter orders of magnitude more, but is free for scrapers. Elon is indeed a stable genius.
Don’t you want users to be on the platform as long as possible to maximize ad revenue? If this was just to force people to pay for verification, why wouldn’t they make that tier unlimited? I honestly can’t even believe this is real.
So people now can’t view Twitter without logging in, but once people are logged in, Twitter only lets them look at a limited number of tweets.
I’m not sure what sense there is for a social media company to keep telling consumers to stop consuming content. Has the Twitter infrastructure become that fragile? Are they running out of tweets? Whatever they are smoking at Twitter HQ they might want to give it a rest.
When you do the right thing for the wrong reason…
Now, this is ridiculous, of course. However, you shouldn’t be reading more than 600 tweets a day. I mean, I don’t think I’ve read 600 tweets in my whole LIFE!!
Anyways, mastodon.world.
It’s not just reading. Any tweet that loads as you scroll past it on your feed or in replies to a tweet counts towards the limit.
I’m not a twitter user but my understanding is that any replies to a tweet also apply towards the limit. So scrolling a popular tweet with hundreds of replies could drain your entire tweet limit in a matter of minutes.
Can confirm. I scroll past blue checks when I read comments and I had run out my post limit in under 20 minutes today.
400 posts a day seems like a lot. Am I missing something here? Is a post a tweet?
Seems like a lot but the definition of “read” here means scrolled past. So about 10-15 minutes of scrolling and you’re out
Oh wow, yeah I missed the headline lol. I wasn’t sure when I read OP’s description if post meant like API post request or like posting a tweet. Turns out maybe neither? But yeah scrolling past a few hundred tweets will go by real fast.
