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TL;DR: Twitter limits verified accounts to reading 6000 posts a day, unverified accounts to 600

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sheldon Chang at Mastodon properly found the actual reason for the rate limit https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/110639436283129914

Maybe they can call one of the fired Devs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

That explanation is patently idiotic, and so almost certainly true.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's hilarious!!

[–] thehatfox 3 points 1 year ago

That’s crazy if true, Twitter rationing access for users because Twitter itself is falling apart.

Twitter is looking like it is becoming a failed state of social media.