Musk limits number of posts Twitter users can view per day - you can view 6,000 tweets a day if verified, 600 unverified, 300 new unverified

Musk limits number of posts Twitter users can view per day​

Before Musk unveiled Twitter’s new policy, users were met with a message reading “rate limit exceeded,” when trying to view content.



By GISELLE RUHIYYIH EWING
07/01/2023 02:11 PM EDT

Twitter users will face new limitations on the number of tweets they can view per day, according to a tweet from the company’s billionaire owner Elon Musk on Saturday.

“To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits,” Musk tweeted, before announcing that verified accounts would be limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts to 600 posts per day and new unverified accounts to 300 posts per day.

Before Musk unveiled Twitter’s new policy, users were met with a message reading “rate limit exceeded,” when trying to view content. Enough users were confused by the alert that “#TwitterDown” was trending in the U.S. on Saturday morning.

The announcement is the latest in a series of major changes for the social media company, including the appointment of a new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, who took over the role from Musk in June. Upon her appointment, Musk tweeted that Yaccarino would “focus primarily on business operations,” while he would stay focused on “product design & technology.”

Musk also made waves last week as he appeared to agree to a fight against Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Musk on Friday tweeted “some chance fight happens in Colosseum,” after reports that Italy’s minister of culture reached out to the two tech giants offering to coordinate the fight at the historical site.

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[Agent Abe Caprine]

well, this definitely makes it impossible to use Twitter to follow live events (where you may have to scroll past 100 idiots retweeting something before one new piece of info) or archive lolcow behavior. I give this maybe 2 weeks before it changes.

edit: imagine how bad this will look when people trying to flee a shooting or natural disaster and looking for info about where to go that's safe see "rate limit exceeded." Great PR move. This is the problem with firing everyone who tells you "no."

I lurk Twitter during tornado watches and warnings. It's the most reliable place online to see how fucked you are. Wasn't able to this tornado season because people without accounts can no longer use the search function. Very cool, Paypal Man.

Yes, I know radios exist.

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Yes, exactly. Weather events and local crime or traffic fuckery are often easier to track via Twitter than other means. Maps and navigation will tell you there's a traffic jam, but not that it's a fatality and they're closing off the road. The state DoT or police sites are updated slowly in many places (and if you're not in your usual state, it can be harder to find the right place to go).

 

[Baraadmirer]

Well, guess this is going to heavily impact archiving.

 

[Gravemind]

I lurk Twitter during tornado watches and warnings. It's the most reliable place online to see how fucked you are. Wasn't able to this tornado season because people without accounts can no longer use the search function. Very cool, Paypal Man.

Yes, I know radios exist.

For that matter, weather radios won't give you a larger perspective on the current weather situation in your neck of the woods either, on top of watch graphics, warning graphics, delineations of warned areas, active monitoring of the current conditions, etc.

They're basically just glorified alarm boxes that will only go off if a warning is issued for your location. You can get basically the same thing from most phones these days and television.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Shitposts about the situation are also pretty nice. Makes things less stressful.

 

[innocent jogger]

Optimistically waiting for the day when zero Twitter posts can be viewed or made.

Seriously though, I have never had a twatter account myself. Is it hard to make throw away accounts on there or something? I'm guessing from all the people I have seen complaining about archiving now that it is?

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Optimistically waiting for the day when zero Twitter posts can be viewed or made.

Seriously though, I have never had a twatter account myself. Is it hard to make throw away accounts on there or something? I'm guessing from all the people I have seen complaining about archiving now that it is?

You need a phone number to make one that won't get instabanned.

 

[innocent jogger]

You need a phone number to make one that won't get instabanned.

Thanks. I was guessing it was something like that. I guess there are always ways to spoof it aside from wasting money and time on a burner phone, but I am too cheap and lazy for that shit. I tip my hat now to all the Kiwis still archiving stuff off of Twitter and Telegram.

 

[Haramburger]

Well, guess this is going to heavily impact archiving.

Sure did

 

[Coffee Mugshot]

Seriously though, I have never had a twatter account myself. Is it hard to make throw away accounts on there or something? I'm guessing from all the people I have seen complaining about archiving now that it is?

You need a phone number to make one that won't get instabanned.

I made a throwaway post-Musk and was never asked to provide a phone number, just an email and had to solve some captcha-esque puzzles. I can tweet with it and people can see my tweets, like, and respond to them. Maybe because I made it on desktop? I've also accessed it via phone app and still never got asked for a number.

 

[derpherp2]

Oh right I almost forgot, a lot of ACTUAL emergency alerts are tied to twitter for some reason.

So elon really fucked up here. Since you can get an alert on your phone, but can't read the emergency.

 

[Toolbox]

You say artists, but you mean pornographers.

Kicking porn off Twitter would be amazing, hope Elon follows through on that.

Tumblr kicking it off their platform is what caused that whole mess on Twitter. They would just find another spot to shit up.

 

[draggs]

Is this only for your timeline?

There's a half dozen accounts I look at once or twice a day, I go direct to their URL, if I want to search for something I go to one of those URLs and hit up the search box, I never look at "my" feed and I've got restricted from viewing tweets zero times since this. I'm sure I've seen more than 600 a day at least once, by that I mean skimming down a long thread to see if there's anything I should stop and actually read, so I'll "see" like 50-100 tweets but only actually read with my eyeballs the original + 1 or 2 in that thread

 

[Don't Tread on Me]

Tumblr kicking it off their platform is what caused that whole mess on Twitter. They would just find another spot to shit up.

Yeah but hopefully that would be FurAffinity or something.

 

[Toolbox]

Yeah but hopefully that would be FurAffinity or something.

It has to be a site with actual reach. Tumblr was once one of the larger social media sites and they crowded to whatever they thought would let them post but also what would get them the most attention aka potential money. Furshit sites aren't very friendly to actually finding 'success' though most of these people never do anyway for obvious reasons.

 

[CarlosDanger]

I don't know, I'm still using Twitter like I normally do to look for news and salt and I have yet to hit the limit.

 

[Mothra1988]

I lurk Twitter during tornado watches and warnings. It's the most reliable place online to see how fucked you are. Wasn't able to this tornado season because people without accounts can no longer use the search function. Very cool, Paypal Man.

Yes, I know radios exist.

Buy a weather radio, it's 100 times more accurate than Twatter.

 

[George Lucas]

Shitposts about the situation are also pretty nice. Makes things less stressful.

Imagine getting stressed about the internet. Holy shit nigger go outside.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Imagine getting stressed about the internet. Holy shit nigger go outside.

I was talking about tornado watches and warnings, not the internet. Last I checked, tornados are not a digital phenomenon.

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Buy a weather radio, it's 100 times more accurate than Twatter.

Weather radios tell you (in my area, anyway) which cities a storm is near. It doesn't say which roads are impacted. Flooding and tornados are both easier to follow on Twitter than literally anywhere else, to the point where it's what the local news crews use to know where to send the cameras.