Twitter applies temporary reading limits for all users, Elon Musk announces

https://ground.news/article/twitter-applies-temporary-reading-limits-for-all-users-elon-musk-announces_ba2c44

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ghariksforge@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y (2 replies)

There are rumors that Elon didn't pay his AWS bill: https://mastodon.social/@Danda/110641222122739840

YellowtoOrange@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Apparently some sort of contract with google ran out yesterday

ghariksforge@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

this one says AWS

authed@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

We don't need limits on Lemmy.. most of the time the instances are down

Figaro2x@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

😂

redtea@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 3y

I thought Twitter already had limits, tbh. It only ever has so many curated tweets for me, few of which are from accounts that I actually follow (even fewer from radical tweeters). After a few 'pages' it just says, 'no', and refuses to load any more. It's always done this. If I click on the profiles of people I do follow, many tweet daily and often. Twitter just refuses to include them in my timeline. It's one of the reasons I rarely use it. No idea what it would be like recently.

Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Sounds fair enough if you read some of the articles it's for accounts that read over 6000 posts a dayz so as to combat scraper bots.

Twitter has to manage 3rd parties paying for their API somehow

LetsGOikz@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

6000 tweets is only for people with Twitter Blue, and it counts scrolling past a series of tweets on your timeline as reading them, so it's really easy to hit that limit even as a paying bootlicker.

For those of us sane enough to not spend any money on that godforsaken platform, it's only 600 tweets, which is disgustingly easy to hit. Scroll a little through your timeline, open a few tweets to read replies, and you've hit your limit in less than 30 minutes.

Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y

Sorry, you're right it's 600 a day, but seriously I don't think that's a problem it's probably doing us a favour too.

I couldn't imagine spending 30 a day total on Twitter.

They want people to pay for the platform, this is how they're doing it.