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USA Today reports:
Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Saturday announced “temporary limits” on the number of tweets users are able to read, an announcement that comes amid reports of users having difficulty accessing the site.
Verified accounts “are limited to reading 6000 posts/day,” while unverified accounts were limited to 600 per day, Musk’s tweet said. New and unverified counts will have an even lower limit of 300, he said.
It was unclear how the site was calculating what counted as a read tweet. USA TODAY reached out to Twitter for clarification and and received a automated message of a poop emoji, as is standard for the company.
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Since early this morning, users have been met with this notice: “Sorry, you are rate limited. Please try again in a few minutes.”
You got to be f*cking kidding me. This is total bullshit. pic.twitter.com/jJSLOb1oGL
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 1, 2023
BROKE: Paying to post tweets
WOKE: Paying to read tweets pic.twitter.com/2ycSuTRIuq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 1, 2023
If you’re wondering why you’re rate limited it is not a bug it is Elon making it so you can only read 600 posts a day. The business master has performed his ultimate move pic.twitter.com/v1tlHdcs9i
— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) July 1, 2023
How bad Elon is at this will be studied for years. An absolute speed run for the all time world record for “Worst Guy Doing The Worst Job At Something.” pic.twitter.com/SisLAG9uBv
— Alex Fernie (@FernieCommaAlex) July 1, 2023
the key to a good social media platform is making sure you can’t read too many posts https://t.co/CdBDc1s6J2
— John Tabin (@johntabin) July 1, 2023
Regular reminder that Elon Musk is a serial liar, so as dumb as it might be to claim that Twitter limited tweet reading on purpose to counter “data scraping,” that’s probably just the best excuse he could come up with for something even dumber and more embarrassing.
— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) July 1, 2023
Best guess: Twitter tried to do something stupid with their API, they messed it up in a way that will take days, so Elon is doing this new “you can only read 600 posts a day” thing as a cover, and he’ll say “after hearing your feedback, we’ve reversed the policy” when it’s fixed.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) July 1, 2023