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.
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
https://xcancel.com/htxtafrica
At least as far as sharing every article on their site there, yes. Almost 50k tweets
Eh that doesn’t count. It’s probably automated anyway.
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.
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?
hey now the gipity gonna save us all. It is the greatest invention ever. 🤤
If these restrictions are significant, please seek therapy
I guess it’s for customer care
Oh, man, this will affect tens of people.
Oh, no!
Anyway…
Its so hard for me to believe that there are people out there for whom this will be an issue. Who are these people and what’s wrong with them?
Oh no! The nazi bar has set a drink limit! Guess I’ll just have to continue not drinking there.
Mastodon doesn’t have these limits.
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.
Most people won’t hit those numbers, and this that so should probably be paying for the service
The upside of Twitter’s downfall has been the absence of “look what so and so said in a tweet” headlines.
Who cares. Piece of shit platform.
Good, will make people get off Xwitter.
This is great! We need more enshittification on X!
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?
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
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.
I’m happy to say that the only time I’ve ever even been on twitter was to check down times on destiny 2 servers which at the time was literally the only place they’d post stuff like that… Nobody knows why… But then again it’s bungie… So…
