Elon has responded to the criticism and is increasing the limits to a whopping:
Verified accounts: 8000 posts/day
Unverified accounts: 800 posts/day
New unverified accounts: 400 posts/day
Elon is helping people to move towards Mastedon and Lemmy.
Thanks Elon.
Between him and Spez, they’ve done a great job. 😂
He is spez’ idol. So while Reddit’s circles the drain and value decreases, they’ll will no doubt kill old.reddit on August 1st or something dumb, followed by a posting limit next year. 🤣
Spez didn’t borrow billions of dollars he has to pay back with interest though so he won’t need to fire almost all his engineers.
He did however send all the most talented developers working under the platform to his biggest competitor so that wasn’t smart.
Third party app devs?
Yeah. He literally called them competitors when they were driving traffic to his website. Now many of them are working on making their applications work with Reddit’s true competitors.
It is a success. Actually searched out Mastodon to add to my rss feeds for the first time for accounts that had them.
And Bluesky, which honestly has proven a pretty good alternative for Twitter.
What are the big differences between mastodon and blue sky?
Think people will end up on BlueSky over mastodon.
Bluesky probably will be the winner; but it may be an activity pub site
You can’t migrate to a place that isn’t open.
I had to look this up, couldn’t believe it. I’ve been pretty indifferent to Musk and Twitter…cause I’ve been always indifferent to Twitter, but this is crazy. As an example, my city’s police and bus services and others all use Twitter to send updates out. And I’m sure it’s the same for most places. And now they’ve essentially lost the ability to mass communicate with people, because they need to be able to reach everyone not just those with an account.
The problem is with your city’s public servants. Relying on something like Twitter was a huge mistake.
Until recently it was a great way to reach people in a way you can’t really do with any other platform.
But this day and age breaking TV broadcast doesn’t work for anyone under the age of 55 or so
Relying on a single service was a huge mistake. You can always diversify.
Relying on a single service was a huge mistake. You can always diversify.
Sure, that’s easy to say. But name another free, publicly available, instant mass message delivery system they could also use?
Telegram, RSS, Email…
Take your pick
Why’d you get downvoted when those are good alternatives?
All require the audience to be signed up. Twitter allowed users to broadcast. But yes, they are certainly functional alternatives.
Usenet? It’s is still there, despite google’s attempts to absorb it.
Rabbits
I used Twitter for all my local updates - from what’s happening at city hall to live traffic and weather updates.
What’s up with CEO’s messing with social media companies. Huffman and Musk seem to enjoy ruining good things :(
It’s a symptom of the end of cheap money. It’s fine to not turn a profit when the economy is bullish and there’s money sloshing around everywhere, but at some stage you have to justify your existence, especially when advertisers stop buying ads, which has been the case for a while
Kinda stupid that a local government funded institution relies on a service from a private company to send out notifications
If you have 800 posts available and you read a post every 10 seconds, then you can only spend 2,2 hours per day on the site before you can’t see new posts.
Twitter basically forces its users to verify their accounts to use the site in a normal way. That will definitly backfire.
Touch grass, indeed
Nothing like telling someone they can’t use your product. I can only imagine what the advertisers are thinking.
“I can’t wait for my brand to be associated with a site that was a festering sore to begin with, and is now run by the world’s most inflamed asshole and unstable to boot.”
When you say it like that I’m not sure how they resist.
My understanding is that there’s very few left?
And most of them are scams.
It’s been fascinating to watch Elon test how much Twitter’s user base will tolerate.
Also fascinating that there are people that still use Twitter
It’s funny to me how a lot of twitter posters said they were gonna go to mastodon, but quickly went back when they realized they weren’t getting the same engagement.
Makes sense, since Twitter draw seemed to me more for self promotion with nobody really caring about the user comments unlike reddit. Pretty why I just relied on rss for Twitter, and didn’t bother with the account. Same for Instagram and tiktok too.
At this point if you still use twitter you are a moron.
400 posts a day seems like a lot. Am I missing something here? Is a post a tweet?
People were expecting Twitter to go to shit because of bad moderation, but it turns out Elon is much better at adding infuriating features that drive people away in the first place.
It helps when he doesn’t pay the bills due as well and then is forced to do things like this
The greatest mastodon supporter, bless him
good thing right?
A lot of Twitter users are more addicted to Twitter than some people would be addicted to crack. He could charge $1000/mo for unlimited vicious bile and they’d pay it.
Who reads more than 800 posts every day? I only ever get on twitter for juice drama every few months
Every tweet you scroll past counts as a read tweet. That probably cuts down the number you can actually read by quite a lot.
Ahh yes, killing your social media by limiting your request per user at a day. Genius. I know that data scrapping is a problem in any social media platform
When you do the right thing for the wrong reason…
