cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1135683/x-announces-significant-restrictions-to-free-accounts-50-posts-and-200-replies-per-day
- Direct Messages (daily): The limit is 500 messages sent per day.
- Posts: 50 original posts and 200 replies per day for unverified accounts. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals.
- Changes to account email: 4 per hour.
- Following (daily): The technical follow limit is 400 per day. Please note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior.
- Following (account-based): Once an account is following 5,000 other accounts, additional follow attempts are limited by account-specific ratios.
Great news. Go on Elon!!! Kill your platform!!! Do it!!!
50 posts a day!? If you hit 50 posts a day they should just ban you.
“significant restrictions”
I wonder if author is a twitter addict
The point is to make bot farms create thousands of new accounts, driving up user accounts so they can trick investors and advertisers into thinking they still have a viable business.
Don’t a lot of people cover live events, city hearings, court room proceedings, war zones, etc?
No id say the vast majority of people do not do those things.
“a lot” ≠ most
This is enshitification, but it might be indirectly helping people who are on Twitter too much 😄
It doesn’t do much to bot farms since they can keep spinning up more accounts
If these restrictions are significant, please seek therapy
I guess it’s for customer care
Why the fuck do people still use Twitter? Why would you pay to use social media? You’re already the product, and now you’re going to pay to be the fucking product? Are you stupid?
Have you met people lately?
hey now the gipity gonna save us all. It is the greatest invention ever. 🤤
Multiple reasons, but I’d be lying if I claimed it’s not partly out of spite for all the people who get hilariously angry about it. I’m also subscribed to SuperGrok.
Imagine getting angry because other people do things you don’t like, even though it doesn’t affect you in any way whatsoever. Stop hitting yourself.
even though it doesn’t affect you in any way whatsoever
Nope, doesn’t affect me at all… oh, wait, I can no longer afford a platter drive or ssd to expand storage, I can no longer afford ram, cpus, soon to be pcbs. Nope, doesn’t affect anyone anywhere at all.
Recently bought a 1tb m.2 for a friend, it cost more than the 2tb I bought in december
Well people using twitter surely aren’t to blame for that which is what I was responding to here.
People using LLMs do drive up the demand for computer components, I’ll give you that, though even there it’s a bit more nuanced than that.
You: “I turned fascist just to spite people who gets hilariously angry about fascism”.
That same logic makes you a communist then. And me a communist fascist I guess? Go figure… Difficult to keep up with the insane troll logic you’re displaying here.
Does anyone actually reach those numbers? Is this a crackdown on bots?
this is what it really is. this seems very normal but its happening on a service owned by a shitty person so people make a big deal. this isnt enshiyification, as another commenter said because it doesnt affect a normal user.
Oh, no!
Anyway…
Mastodon doesn’t have these limits.
Oh no! The nazi bar has set a drink limit! Guess I’ll just have to continue not drinking there.
That means I’ll end each day having only 50 posts remaining…
Even when I had an account years ago there was not a single day I posted/replied/commented/shared more than 1-3 times a day (1-3 interactions a day)
It was never my thing really so it was easy to remove from my life.
Since 2007 or so, I haven’t seen a good use case for Xitter other than situations where mass messaging is necessary. Like a utility company announcing maintenance or outages. Why do people care so much about what other people think?
My dear mother taught me that opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one and they all stink.
Wise woman.
this saying doesnt apply universally, what about people into butt stuff that regularly bleach their assholes you tear into that after a good bleaching/shower (and enema, if you want to be safe), it’s fine
Who cares. Piece of shit platform.
The upside of Twitter’s downfall has been the absence of “look what so and so said in a tweet” headlines.
Let me get this straight…
Elon musk buys twitter for 44 BILLION dollars with the expectation that it will help be influencial towards societies general conversation.
So then he starts turning twitter into a right wing cesspool, and some users start leaving. Granted, not nearly enough. I think I read about 30% of the site has left, but thats still far too many who haven’t left.
So despite his stupidity, he still has a sizeable platform. And his thought process is…“hey, you know those influencial voices we have on society? Lets limit those!”
So now they are reducing the amount of messages their users can put out into the world.
…so what is even the goal here? Are they just doing things to stay in the news?
I’d like to know how many of that 70% left are dead accounts.
…at least 1.
Gotta extract more value from the reduced user base. Think Netflix. Plus, they gotta recoup AI “investment” costs, and the remaining people on Xitter are predominantly mouth breathing rubes.
Add that to foresight only as far as the next quarter and it’s the most logical recipe for success /s
It’s because he’s an idiot.
Stop trying to make sense of what he is doing. He is a common criminal fascist who is getting his nut just like sam gipity… Scammers don’t need to make sense.
This is great! We need more enshittification on X!