Twitter Is Cooked: Elon Limits The Amount Of Tweets You Can View To 600 A Day If You Don't Pay For Twitter Blue
This is some next level self destruction by Elon. I'm not even sure I understand what "extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation" means, but this can't be the answer. For the first time in Twitter's history you are limited to viewing 600 posts, which is the equivalent of scrolling the app for like 20 minutes. Will the lifeboats be assorted by class? Replies apparently count, so that number adds up quickly, unless you want to pay whatever dumb price Twitter Blue is these days. I read a Big Cat thread about how he's wasting your rate limit by reading his rate limit tweet and now I can't fucking use the app until tomorrow.
Maybe he's just trying to get us all to go outside and enjoy our holiday weekend? Some of us are AI and trying to scrape as many blog topics from Twitter as possible. Truly nasty work to "rate limit" the entire platform the first days of NBA free agency. Or is he just not paying the bills and the servers are cooked?
Twitter has a unique position to be one of those apps that is almost impossible to leave no matter how many times a zillionaire owner puppeteers us around like a herd of sheep. Instagram is apparently working on a competitor that is releasing soon, but until then see you next time for whatever stupid game Elon has us play because we're addicted to a bird. I wish I could write more here or maybe link one of the 100,000 quote tweets and counting that are ratio'ing Elon into bolivian, so see you in the next one.
