So, so far this year we’ve got Imgur, who thinks the internet does not run on porn, Twitter who thinks keeping users from their service is a good idea, Reddit who thinks nuking their freely made moderator infrastructure works and Youtube who also thinks randomly banning people who are smart enough to use ad blockers won’t have any effect.
At this point, I’m starting to make up increasingly bizarre theories as to why techbros have suddenly all collectively gone insane. The one I came up with this morning was that they all snorted coke of the same hooker’s ass which was somehow tainted with a brain eating amoeba.
Another unsurprising shot in the foot for Twitter… certainly limiting how much users can engage with content/see sponsored posts will make more money!
What on earth is this decision? Is there even one possible benefit for this, for anybody?
What makes this self own even better is the code used to limit reading, doesn’t actually limit requests. So Twitter’s users are DDoSing the site with the official app.
These guys think the service they provide is so invaluable, so critical to the lives of their users, that they’re betting on those users’ willingness to shell out for the experience they’re accustomed to.
It doesn’t seem like a winning strategy but he’s desperate to turn a profit off this thing and I don’t think the long term is much of a consideration right now.
The really criminal thing about this is the for some users it is that critical.
So not only are they vastly overestimating how critical their service is to the average costumer; they are also totally fucking over a minority of users for whom it is critical.
My account is 12 years old, this took less than 3 minutes;
This is all fucking hilarious at this point. He’s stripped any and all value from Twitter. Glad I already put a read limit of 0 in place.
How to dismantle a decent and viable company in any % record time speedrun.
And all because he’s just petty at how his twitter value manipulation to make some money didn’t work out.
Soon - Elon asks his engineers, “Why has ad hits gone down so much?”
Engineers: “…”
I mean, just looking at this from a practical stand point, how many people actually look at 600 posts a day, that seems really excessive. I doubt 95% of twitter users are going to hit that limit. Though it would look a lot less like a money grab and more to keep information gathering if he’d made it a flat 6000 across all accounts instead of just the verified ones
I thought the same at first, but apparently anything you scroll past counts as a post. Users are hitting their limits in 5 to 20 minutes.
Lolz, well in that case their screwed I assumed it was based of interaction. Thats the exact way I used twitter when I was on it. Scroll for a full min until you see something intresting.
This is crazy. I don’t know what Elon is doing. Even limiting his paying users is cringe.
All of these assholes running companies built entirely on user-generated content are infuriated that AI startups are scraping that content to train their models.
Verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, he tweeted, while unverified accounts are limited to just 600. New unverified accounts are at 300 posts a day.
This is absolute amateur hour. Why are people still trying to use Twitter.
Who the fuck posts 300 tweets a day?
Edit: Nvm, I apparantly can’t read lol
No, you misunderstand - the limit is on viewing tweets.
600 posts per day is damn nothing, yikes
Especially considering the way twitter counts a “view” is if the tweet shows up in your app’s viewport, at all. So simply scrolling through the timeline consumes “views” - you could run up against this limit in 10-15 minutes of scrolling.
It’s incredibly stupid.
A couple weeks ago I got a new phone and made the choice to not transfer twitter over, because it had become increasingly depressing amd frustrating.
This really just reassures the site is a lost cause. Fuck Elon.
I had to uninstall the App because Elon was forcing notifications for his bigoted tweets even if you didn’t even follow him. wtf…
