Incredibly bizarre way to intentionally kill your app, even after all the other nonsense he's been doing. Even if I were willing to pay for something as cringe as verification, 6000 posts a day is laughable for an app like Twitter. I hit the rate limit on my "unverified" account in about 5 minutes. I've been waiting for $newApp to get enough users to be fun, and this only motivates me more to be the change I want to see.
It really feels like we're witnessing the end of an era. Elon is doggedly piloting Twitter into the ground and Reddit seems strangely compelled to follow his lead. Reddit may recover - I'm not so sure about Twitter. What technologies will take their place? In a time where it's never been easier to stand up your own website/forum/what have you, could we possibly see a gradual return to a pre-corporate Internet?
Reminder that Elon didn't even intend to buy Twitter
He wanted to sell ~$2.5 Billion Tesla stock at all-time highs without causing the stock price to significantly deflate, so he used the Twitter purchase suggestion as a cover. He did similar pump and dump schemes with crypto - like Dogecoin - but because Elon is fundamentally a dumb guy, he did the extraordinarily stupid thing of signing a purchase agreement with Twitter
Elon thought he'd be able to wiggle out of it because he assumed the SEC would be the regulatory body he'd be up against - and to his credit he has made a career out of making the SEC look like spineless chumps - but much to Elon's horror he actually found himself before the almighty Delaware Court of Chancery
So in an effort to slyly make a couple Billion $'s, Elon torched ~$40 Billion of his personal wealth, in what is arguably the biggest bag fumbling in modern history
I knew the end of the cheap money era would cause some businesses to be exposed but wow. We are basically in the middle of watching someone flush 44 billion down the drain. I could understand if it was a 600 posting limit. But a 600 viewing limit? wow. For example, NBA free agency just started. There are types of trades & signings being talked about. Just looking at that information I'm going past the 600 limit in about 30 minutes just by scrolling to see if anything is new. Twitter was nice to get this information from & they showed me a few ads. Decent transaction. But now I'm just going to refresh ESPN to see the latest signings.
Elon is the type of guy whose plan to reduce crime is to kill every human thus reducing crime to 0.
Oh is that why Twitter has been giving errors about rate limiting for hours? Makes sense.
Reading 600 tweets per day is an absurdly small limit for normal users.
advertisers must be really pleased about people spending less time on the place they advertised
He should just go ahead and say you can't use the platform unless you pay for Twitter Blue.
I've been on there since 2012, accumulated 10k followers, and once Twitter Blue went live, my tweets no longer reach anyone who follows me.
That being said: good, f@ck Twitter, I hope it burns!
I go on Twitter daily (more like hourly) and have for close to a decade. Just uninstalled for the first time because I can’t view anything. Honestly it feels amazing. What a breath of fresh air. Now I just need to find a new minute by minute source of news for baseball/Ukraine.
Because nothing says "Twitter is a digital town square" like limiting the amount of posts you can view.
“CNN has reached out to Twitter for comment, but the platform responded with an automated poop emoji.”
Jesus what a child
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/01/tech/twitter-rate-limit-exceeded/index.html
Even his sycophants are upset, seeing 6,000 tweets is fuck all!
He knows his app makes $ by ad revenue right and people need to use the app to see ads??
I’m sure there’s no connection between Twitter deciding to not pay its cloud services bill to Google and deciding to suddenly slash traffic with no preamble at the end of the month.