Yesterday, Twitter began blocking folks not logged into an account from viewing tweets, profiles, or any info. In what might be thought-about an much more shortsighted determination, Elon Musk now says that Twitter is limiting the variety of tweets that customers with an account can view.

Musk introduced the change on Twitter on Saturday morning, so that you won’t be capable of view the announcement in case you’ve already hit your Twitter restrict for the day. In keeping with Musk, Twitter is implementing these adjustments as “non permanent limits to deal with excessive ranges of information scraping and system manipulation.”

Listed here are the brand new limits:

• Verified accounts are restricted to studying 6000 posts/day
• Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
• New unverified accounts to 300/day

So, in case you pay $8 monthly for Twitter Blue, you possibly can learn 10x the variety of posts per day as somebody who doesn’t pay for the ransom subscription service.

9to5Mac’s Take

I’m beginning to assume this Elon Musk cat doesn’t know a lot about operating a social community. Does he not notice how a lot these limits are going to influence customers, engagement, and subsequently promoting income?

To not point out the truth that this modification seemingly went into impact this morning with out announcement, main many Twitter customers to imagine that the social community was offline. Musk retroactively introduced the change hours after the complaints first started surfacing.

There are additionally no particulars on what precisely it means to “learn” a put up. What in case you scroll by your time, however solely cease to actively learn a handful of posts? Primarily based on the present implementation, it looks like any tweet you scroll previous counts as a “learn.”

So let me get this straight: for tens of millions of Twitter customers, the power to learn tweets will break sooner or later in the present day. These Twitter customers, nevertheless, won’t be able to see Elon’s announcement…as a result of new tweets received’t load after you hit that restrict.

Since I began scripting this story roughly 20 minutes in the past, I’ve hit my Twitter restrict.

Twitter to its customers in the present day: cease utilizing our platform and contact grass. Nice work, crew. I count on Reddit to implement the same limitation someday throughout the subsequent six months.

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