Twitter users are experiencing new unexpected changes in Twitter since Elon Musk bought this social media platform. This app is a widely to set online trends. Twitter is mostly for people who want to spread their word on any current topic with in no time. It’s popular for its short reach time and authenticity. But both are under threat these days.
Twitter With Its New “Limit” Feature:
Recently Elon Musk introduced “limit” feature in twitter. With this feature to limit number of tweets a user can view, Twitter users are feeling surprised. Some of the users are in favor of this limit and others are so angry that they are threatening to leave the platform forever.
Tweets One Can Read Per Day:
With this new Twitter limit, a verified user with blue tick can view up to 6,000 tweets in a day and unverified accounts can view up to 600 tweets only. In addition to that, limit for unverified new accounts has set to 300 tweets only.
The temporary reading limitation was later increased to 10,000 posts per day for verified users, 1,000 posts per day for unverified and 500 posts per day for new, unverified users, Musk said in a separate post without providing further details.
What is Twitter Rate Limit Feature?
People felt surprised to see a random error message on their screen stating “Rate Limit Exceeded”. They do not have any idea what is going on with their app and what they are supposed to do after that error? As this limit is an unannounced change.
Coming to what does “Rate Limit Exceeded” means? It means that whoever receives that error message has already viewed maximum number of tweets allowed to view per day. You are not able to view more posts on that day.
This read limit includes number of comments and refreshing the app as well.
Elon Musk on Rate Limit Feature:
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, tweeted regarding this on his official twitter account. He said that this is a temporary limit to address extreme level of data scraping and system manipulation.
Musk had said that hundreds of organisations were scraping Twitter data “extremely aggressively”, affecting user experience.
He had earlier expressed displeasure with artificial intelligence firms like OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, for using Twitter’s data to train their large language models.
Twitter Users on This Change:
Twitter users have mixed views on this sudden and unannounced change. Most of the people are not happy with it. They are of the view that it will disturb business of social media influencers and those doing digital marketing.
Some of the people upset with this change have either left or ready to leave the social media app. Some of the users are of the view that Musk want to make a bit extra money with such tactics. People will try to get a verified account, which requires a monthly subscription.
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