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Elon Musk, @elonmusk
To address extreme levels of data scrapting & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
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Good human
Gah, all you people in here are gonna have me jumping into mastodon before long…
This federated thing is pretty dang cool.
Imagine making it harder to engage with your platform that depends on engagement to exist.
He didn’t actually say that, did he? That would be really stupid, even for him.
You are really underestimating his stupidity.
he did
He’s crazy
To Elon’s credit (🤮) he did say temporary limits. Of course he lies constantly so who knows.
Is this real??
I can’t imagine it’s hard to scroll past 600 posts in a day if you use twitter a lot.
So, once you’re done your 600 posts, you’ll go somewhere else where you can scroll endlessly, then slowly find yourself more and more going to that somewhere else instead of twitter. Elon twitler Musk is an idiot.
I never really used twitter, but if I used it like i use ANY other social media site, yeah. I would fill that up in like an hour… and I use these sites all day long…
I still have my Twitter, I’ll go check.
23 min
Twitter is no longer free. Lol seems like a bad idea.
Okay, I might not have gotten the lingo yet: I see so many posts about “Rule” and I don’t get it. Can someone ELI5?
The old subreddit had one rule: you had to make a post before leaving. People started just saying “rule” in the title as a joke about begrudgingly complying with the rule.
Duuuuuude thank you. I was kinda close going on context but it makes sense now!
Trust me, it took weeks/months of trying to get the context then as well lmao.
Lol there’s probably so many scrapers because he made the API so expensive
This will just kill the big accounts that generate a majority of the engagement
this is so fucking funny, let me grab my popcorn as i watch all the corporate social media sites shit themselves
does this guy even use his own apps
He likes to watch the numbers go up but beyond that, I suppose less than we might think.
the rules don’t apply to him
He doesn’t even use his own brain.
Real talk, at this point it really just seems like a conscious effort at destroying the platform. Musk is definitely a fucking idiot, but there’s no way even someone as unintelligent as he is would think this is a remotely “good” way to run a social media website.
I’m convinced now his goal was always to just destroy Twitter.
Honestly, I’m not convinced. I think he’s just really that dumb. I showed it to someone else who works in IT and their reaction was that it sounded like a lot of management they’ve worked with: people who have no idea under god how anything works and refuse to listen to why their idea is functionally terrible. Even if you swear up and down it will ruin the entire product, they want it done now, because they want it.
That seems perfectly in line with the kind of moron I’ve heard he is.
I think you’re dead on. Elon is trying to make Twitter work, but he doesn’t understand it at all. He doesn’t understand what they’re commodifying, who their customers are, or why people use Twitter in the first place.
Soon you will only have access to the post button 24 times a day. Elon gotta watch his limit.
Oh, Elon won’t have a limit. Elon Mode is a standard feature in Elon’s products.
I wonder if Reddit is going to do this next…
I can see them making people log in to see the posts.
I can see Reddit limiting upvotes per day. Only 300 but “unlimited” with Reddit premium, etc
Reddit just loves going full Twitter
Premium gets you a super upvote worth 10 regular votes
Please God don’t give them ideas
Also could be that they are scaling down systems
Yeah something I thought since he was “forced” to buy twitter, was he would just burn it to the ground. What does he care?
It’s almost as though the mass exodus he bragged about causing has consequences
Im just saying, he hasn’t been paying bills and it’s the first of the month.
Why would that affect these metrics?
Less servers able to serve requests means either get overloaded and have downtime, or rate limit and stay up.
Both are bad, but rate limiting is less bad.
