To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: - Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day - Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day - New unverified accounts to 300/day
@elonmusk This is the most ridiculous idea I’ve ever seen on here. It’s destroying Twitter.
More than two weeks in and Twitter isn't destroyed. Throttling all accounts to see where massive traffic continues to come from (without human response of giving up) gave Twitter the identities of accounts that were scraping for unknown purposes. @elonmusk could have done that without telling anyone, let the service mysteriously degrade and have users confused AND pissed. Or, he could treat users like adults, let them know what's happening, improve the limits very quickly in real-time, and get what he needs to improve the platform. Sometimes you just have to do it in production.
@catturd2 @elonmusk Don't you mean @X? 40 exhales his lungs are torn! ❤️ #HelleBohdanova