cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1135683/x-announces-significant-restrictions-to-free-accounts-50-posts-and-200-replies-per-day
- Direct Messages (daily): The limit is 500 messages sent per day.
- Posts: 50 original posts and 200 replies per day for unverified accounts. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals.
- Changes to account email: 4 per hour.
- Following (daily): The technical follow limit is 400 per day. Please note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior.
- Following (account-based): Once an account is following 5,000 other accounts, additional follow attempts are limited by account-specific ratios.
Great news. Go on Elon!!! Kill your platform!!! Do it!!!
If these restrictions are significant, please seek therapy
I guess it’s for customer care
Does anyone actually reach those numbers? Is this a crackdown on bots?
this is what it really is. this seems very normal but its happening on a service owned by a shitty person so people make a big deal. this isnt enshiyification, as another commenter said because it doesnt affect a normal user.
Most people won’t hit those numbers, and this that so should probably be paying for the service
Mastodon doesn’t have these limits.
Since 2007 or so, I haven’t seen a good use case for Xitter other than situations where mass messaging is necessary. Like a utility company announcing maintenance or outages. Why do people care so much about what other people think?
My dear mother taught me that opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one and they all stink.
Wise woman.
this saying doesnt apply universally, what about people into butt stuff that regularly bleach their assholes you tear into that after a good bleaching/shower (and enema, if you want to be safe), it’s fine
The upside of Twitter’s downfall has been the absence of “look what so and so said in a tweet” headlines.
Fortunately, now I’m using mastodon
Good, will make people get off Xwitter.
Do real people use this? Though it was just bots and trolls…
Are trolls not real people?
hardly… 😂
I’m happy to say that the only time I’ve ever even been on twitter was to check down times on destiny 2 servers which at the time was literally the only place they’d post stuff like that… Nobody knows why… But then again it’s bungie… So…
How could anyone limit themselves to 50 posts on apartheid-fan-boi.facist?
Another wave in the making.
omgawd sucker. I want it to speed up. Omgawd loser turds
50 posts a day!? If you hit 50 posts a day they should just ban you.
“significant restrictions”
I wonder if author is a twitter addict
https://xcancel.com/htxtafrica
At least as far as sharing every article on their site there, yes. Almost 50k tweets
Eh that doesn’t count. It’s probably automated anyway.
The point is to make bot farms create thousands of new accounts, driving up user accounts so they can trick investors and advertisers into thinking they still have a viable business.
Don’t a lot of people cover live events, city hearings, court room proceedings, war zones, etc?
No id say the vast majority of people do not do those things.
“a lot” ≠ most
This is enshitification, but it might be indirectly helping people who are on Twitter too much 😄
It doesn’t do much to bot farms since they can keep spinning up more accounts
I would argue you cannot enshitify a service that was already shit. At this point this is more of a conshitidation.
Enshittification doesn’t mean “making a good system bad”. It’s a specific process whereby the user experience of a platform is degraded in order to benefit the business partners. Then even the business partners are ripped off to benefit the platform owners.
If you want to get picky, Xwitter didn’t enshitify as laid out as a concept by Cory Doctorow. The best example is probably Amazon which went from being insanely user friendly to lock in users, to supplier-friendly and increasingly less so for users, until it had squeezed and shafted both groups. That’s enshitification and it doesn’t apply to Xwitter. They had problems to make money before a certain somebody bought it. They’ve been bleeding users since the eventually Nazi saluting manbaby bought it, who then wanted to sue advertisers who refused to buy ads on his service. There was no user lock-in and then a supplier lock-in. There was just shit. All their current problems are man made. By one specific man.
Just because it is caused by one man doesn’t mean it isn’t entshittification.
Yeah but it isn’t here.
I never thought I’d like using a word more than enshittification, but conshitidation takes the cake, I think.
