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Twitter applies temporary reading limits for all users, Elon Musk announces (ground.news)

submitted 1 year ago by YellowtoOrange@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] authed@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] sovietsnake@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Kind of unrelated, but what's this ground news thing?

[-] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

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 3 points 1 year ago

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.