Twitter Users React To New Daily Limit That Stops You From Doom-Scrolling
The days of doom-scrolling on the bird app are coming to a close with Twitter’s latest decision to limit the number of tweets each user can see daily.
The magic number here is 600, which seems like a lot in theory, but for many who spend most of their time on the platform, it can easily be exceeded before the day is up.
Users first noticed the change after Twitter went down over the weekend. Feeds had stopped loading, and eventually, a message that said, “Sorry, you are rate limited. Please wait a few moments, then try again,” popped up.
Twitter’s owner Elon Musk tweeted that the site is now implementing limits “to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation” from artificial intelligence companies.
The current tweet cap stands at 6,000 daily posts for verified accounts, 600 for unverified accounts, and 300 for new users. That is set to rise to 10,000, 1,000, and 500, respectively. So if you want to sit and scroll through Twitter without the fear of hitting the limit, you must pay for access.
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
This has understandably upset some users as what had once been a free service is being put behind a paywall. And, of course, many had to air their grievances on the site they were grieving about while trying not to hit the limit.
I haven't hit my rate limit yet and every scroll I fear for my life pic.twitter.com/nWU06AHcNK
— ian (@ianisuglyyy) July 3, 2023
twitter blue, rate limit, quotes not working, CAN THAT MAN STOP RUINING THIS APP PLEASE ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜pic.twitter.com/o8o7777YGq
— rhaenyra targaryen's lawyer (@Targ_Nation) July 2, 2023
twitter users when they reach their rate limit: pic.twitter.com/Zb5vEidywq
— leon (@skyferrori) July 2, 2023
i can feel the rate limit getting closer… pic.twitter.com/ED2QCvu8ru
— fiona (@JUSTAPARTYG1RL) July 2, 2023
In addition, the platform is also preventing access to people who are not logged in to view a tweet on a different site. Though, it’s not clear if this was a glitch or if it was an intentional change.
In response to the new implementation, Bluesky, a new decentralized social media platform backed by Twitter co-founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey, reported a record high of users on its site right as Twitter crashed. Bluesky is still invite-only, and it has since paused its sign-ups to deal with the influx of activity of Saturday.
[via CNN and The Washington Post, Photo 268645315 © Rokas Tenys | Dreamstime.com]
