Another unsurprising shot in the foot for Twitter... certainly limiting how much users can engage with content/see sponsored posts will make more money!
What on earth is this decision? Is there even one possible benefit for this, for anybody?
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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What makes this self own even better is the code used to limit reading, doesn't actually limit requests. So Twitter's users are DDoSing the site with the official app.
No worries. It's not as if they recently fired most of the people who could fix it quickly.
These guys think the service they provide is so invaluable, so critical to the lives of their users, that they're betting on those users' willingness to shell out for the experience they're accustomed to.
It doesn't seem like a winning strategy but he's desperate to turn a profit off this thing and I don't think the long term is much of a consideration right now.
The really criminal thing about this is the for some users it is that critical.
So not only are they vastly overestimating how critical their service is to the average costumer; they are also totally fucking over a minority of users for whom it is critical.
When Elon shoots himself in the foot, I scream, "No, stupid! Aim higher! Hit a vital organ!"
Yep, I just started to unfollow accounts on Twitter, leaving only needed ones because you'll never know when you hit the limit
This is all fucking hilarious at this point. He's stripped any and all value from Twitter. Glad I already put a read limit of 0 in place.
How to dismantle a decent and viable company in any % record time speedrun.
And all because he's just petty at how his twitter value manipulation to make some money didn't work out.
Verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, he tweeted, while unverified accounts are limited to just 600. New unverified accounts are at 300 posts a day.
This is absolute amateur hour. Why are people still trying to use Twitter.
600 posts per day is damn nothing, yikes
Especially considering the way twitter counts a “view” is if the tweet shows up in your app’s viewport, at all. So simply scrolling through the timeline consumes “views” - you could run up against this limit in 10-15 minutes of scrolling.
It’s incredibly stupid.
This is what I was wondering. I don't use Twitter so 600 sounds like a lot but I was wondering how much it actually was. Someone else said they blew through it in like 15 minutes
15 minutes if you actually read the tweets, but when this "reading limit" is actually "impression limit", and Twitter counts an impression as a tweet just loading on your feed (I didn't know this). About 2 minutes of continuous scrolling gets you rate limited.
And sounds like it's implemented in a api-request=view way. I'm not sure how much requests the JS makes per view but im sure it's more than one.
Even 6000 is nothing. I remember when I used to be on the platform for hours per day, following hundreds of active users, and actively sharing to thousand of users… I’m not paying then (wasn’t an option) and I’m not paying now (not interested), but even if I did, I’d go through that in minutes!
If it's per account, couldn't someone that's just absurdly dedicated to using Twitter for some reason make Alts to follow different groups of people anyway?
This is crazy. I don't know what Elon is doing. Even limiting his paying users is cringe.
All of these assholes running companies built entirely on user-generated content are infuriated that AI startups are scraping that content to train their models.
Sounds like a tiered subscription is incoming. My hope is that Twitter implodes completely instead of just becoming a right wing echo chamber like it's trending towards now.
It's already tiered, it's limited to 600 tweets if you are unverified and 6000 if you are "verified" (aka paid for a checkmark)
What even is this reality lmaoo
So, so far this year we've got Imgur, who thinks the internet does not run on porn, Twitter who thinks keeping users from their service is a good idea, Reddit who thinks nuking their freely made moderator infrastructure works and Youtube who also thinks randomly banning people who are smart enough to use ad blockers won't have any effect.
At this point, I'm starting to make up increasingly bizarre theories as to why techbros have suddenly all collectively gone insane. The one I came up with this morning was that they all snorted coke of the same hooker's ass which was somehow tainted with a brain eating amoeba.
What... Huh?? Twitter is limiting the amount of engagement users are allowed to have? Is that what's going on here? Do they actually think that this will make more money or are they just really insistent on making Twitter users touch grass?
This is crazy. I want to see if it actually blocks you from reading tweets. The article didn’t say when this goes into effect though.
My account is 12 years old, this took less than 3 minutes;
A couple weeks ago I got a new phone and made the choice to not transfer twitter over, because it had become increasingly depressing amd frustrating.
This really just reassures the site is a lost cause. Fuck Elon.
I had to uninstall the App because Elon was forcing notifications for his bigoted tweets even if you didn't even follow him. wtf...
Soon - Elon asks his engineers, "Why has ad hits gone down so much?"
Engineers: "..."
I mean, just looking at this from a practical stand point, how many people actually look at 600 posts a day, that seems really excessive. I doubt 95% of twitter users are going to hit that limit. Though it would look a lot less like a money grab and more to keep information gathering if he'd made it a flat 6000 across all accounts instead of just the verified ones
I thought the same at first, but apparently anything you scroll past counts as a post. Users are hitting their limits in 5 to 20 minutes.
Lolz, well in that case their screwed I assumed it was based of interaction. Thats the exact way I used twitter when I was on it. Scroll for a full min until you see something intresting.
Just walk away and let it burn. Goes for both Twitter and Reddit.
Bizarre can't even begin to describe the decisions being made at Twitter.
So apparently Twitter has been refusing to pay it's Google Cloud contract, which ran out at the end of June...
EDIT: It looks like they resolved this recently, see comment below. So I wonder why the drastic change.
That was apparently resolved by the new CEO https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-21/twitter-resumes-paying-google-cloud-patching-up-relationship
Thanks, I updated my comment
Twitter is shooting itself in the foot even more then I had thought possible. First no browsing without an account, now there's a limit to how much you can read in a day?
It’s like huffman and musk are sharing ways to screw over users and their platforms. I get a company needs to make money but personally, I don’t think this is the way.
He can torch Twitter. He can torch Tesla. But if he torches Starlink I'll be an unhappy chappy.
Mind you, it's caused NBN to offer unlimited satellite plans (Australia's government run national internet hoohaa) so there is a slow but viable alternative.
Let that trashcan in.
I can’t believe Elon built these new and improved Twitter backend servers from consumer grade carbon fiber and a Logitech controller.
Imagine having to type your public key in with a Logitech controller...
A Bluetooth one
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