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.
62 Comments
DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world · 84 pts · 96d
50 posts a day!? If you hit 50 posts a day they should just ban you.
morrowind@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 96d
"significant restrictions"
I wonder if author is a twitter addict
urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe · 4 pts · 96d
https://xcancel.com/htxtafrica
At least as far as sharing every article on their site there, yes. Almost 50k tweets
morrowind@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 96d
Eh that doesn't count. It's probably automated anyway.
nothingcorporate@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 96d
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.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 95d
Don't a lot of people cover live events, city hearings, court room proceedings, war zones, etc?
DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 95d
No id say the vast majority of people do not do those things.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 95d
"a lot" ≠ most
otter@lemmy.ca · 66 pts · 96d
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
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 23 pts · 96d
I would argue you cannot enshitify a service that was already shit. At this point this is more of a conshitidation.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social · 4 pts · 96d
I never thought I'd like using a word more than enshittification, but conshitidation takes the cake, I think.
Zagorath@quokk.au · 4 pts · 96d
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.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 3 pts · 96d
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.
Darnton@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 95d
Just because it is caused by one man doesn't mean it isn't entshittification.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 2 pts · 95d
Yeah but it isn't here.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 96d
If these restrictions are significant, please seek therapy
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 95d
I guess it's for customer care
kurmudgeon@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 96d
Why the fuck do people still use Twitter? Why would you pay to use social media? You're already the product, and now you're going to pay to be the fucking product? Are you stupid?
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 96d
dbtng@eviltoast.org · 10 pts · 96d
Yes I have. It was not good.
mynameisbob@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 96d
hey now the gipity gonna save us all. It is the greatest invention ever. 🤤
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · -2 pts · 95d
Multiple reasons, but I'd be lying if I claimed it's not partly out of spite for all the people who get hilariously angry about it. I'm also subscribed to SuperGrok.
Imagine getting angry because other people do things you don't like, even though it doesn't affect you in any way whatsoever. Stop hitting yourself.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 95d
Nope, doesn't affect me at all... oh, wait, I can no longer afford a platter drive or ssd to expand storage, I can no longer afford ram, cpus, soon to be pcbs. Nope, doesn't affect anyone anywhere at all.
Recently bought a 1tb m.2 for a friend, it cost more than the 2tb I bought in december
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 95d
Well people using twitter surely aren't to blame for that which is what I was responding to here.
People using LLMs do drive up the demand for computer components, I'll give you that, though even there it's a bit more nuanced than that.
Darnton@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 95d
You: "I turned fascist just to spite people who gets hilariously angry about fascism".
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 95d
That same logic makes you a communist then. And me a communist fascist I guess? Go figure.. Difficult to keep up with the insane troll logic you're displaying here.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 96d
Does anyone actually reach those numbers? Is this a crackdown on bots?
krisevol@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 95d
Most people won't hit those numbers, and this that so should probably be paying for the service
terabyterex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 95d
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.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 14 pts · 96d
Oh, man, this will affect tens of people.
minfapper@piefed.social · 6 pts · 96d
realitista@lemmus.org · 14 pts · 96d
Its so hard for me to believe that there are people out there for whom this will be an issue. Who are these people and what's wrong with them?
TheFogan@programming.dev · 4 pts · 96d
My thoughts also... who the hell posts more than 50 times a day... well that's twitter isn't probably paid for with our tax dollars anyway.
urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe · 2 pts · 96d
Pretty much anyone whose username ends in .eth or begins with a dollar sign or has a crypto address in their bio, but the vast majority of those people already pay for that blue checkmark anyway
realitista@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 96d
Twitter being paid for with our tax dollars is the first explanation I've heard which sounds like a way this company could actually continue to function.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 95d
I consider myself quite active on Lemmy yet I still only average 12 comments and half a post per day. For all I know, Lemmy could have these same limits and I'd never even find out about it.
dbtng@eviltoast.org · 2 pts · 96d
Twits. It's a social class and a diagnosis.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 96d
Oh, no!
Anyway...
thedormantotaku@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 95d
Mastodon doesn't have these limits.
Chozo@fedia.io · 10 pts · 96d
Oh no! The nazi bar has set a drink limit! Guess I'll just have to continue not drinking there.
dmtalon@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 96d
That means I'll end each day having only 50 posts remaining...
Even when I had an account years ago there was not a single day I posted/replied/commented/shared more than 1-3 times a day (1-3 interactions a day)
It was never my thing really so it was easy to remove from my life.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 96d
Who cares. Piece of shit platform.
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 96d
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.
IronBird@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 96d
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
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 96d
Let me get this straight.....
Elon musk buys twitter for 44 BILLION dollars with the expectation that it will help be influencial towards societies general conversation.
So then he starts turning twitter into a right wing cesspool, and some users start leaving. Granted, not nearly enough. I think I read about 30% of the site has left, but thats still far too many who haven't left.
So despite his stupidity, he still has a sizeable platform. And his thought process is......"hey, you know those influencial voices we have on society? Lets limit those!"
So now they are reducing the amount of messages their users can put out into the world.
..........so what is even the goal here? Are they just doing things to stay in the news?
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 2 pts · 96d
I'd like to know how many of that 70% left are dead accounts.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 96d
......at least 1.
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 96d
Gotta extract more value from the reduced user base. Think Netflix. Plus, they gotta recoup AI “investment” costs, and the remaining people on Xitter are predominantly mouth breathing rubes.
Add that to foresight only as far as the next quarter and it’s the most logical recipe for success /s
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 96d
It's because he's an idiot.
mynameisbob@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 96d
Stop trying to make sense of what he is doing. He is a common criminal fascist who is getting his nut just like sam gipity... Scammers don't need to make sense.
nucleative@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 96d
The upside of Twitter's downfall has been the absence of "look what so and so said in a tweet" headlines.
warmaster@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 96d
This is great! We need more enshittification on X!
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 95d
Good, will make people get off Xwitter.
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 96d
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...
xSikes@feddit.online · 3 pts · 96d
But the bots will be less effective. I bet the API charges are going up soon.
oyzmo@piefed.social · 3 pts · 96d
Do real people use this? Though it was just bots and trolls...
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 95d
Are trolls not real people?
oyzmo@piefed.social · 2 pts · 95d
hardly.. 😂
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 96d
How could anyone limit themselves to 50 posts on apartheid-fan-boi.facist?
ekZepp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 89d
Great news. Go on Elon!!! Kill your platform!!! Do it!!!
The_Pit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 95d
Fortunately, now I'm using mastodon
mynameisbob@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 96d
omgawd sucker. I want it to speed up. Omgawd loser turds
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 1 pts · 95d
Another wave in the making.