X announces significant restrictions to free accounts; 50 posts and 200 replies per day
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.
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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.
Don't a lot of people cover live events, city hearings, court room proceedings, war zones, etc?
No id say the vast majority of people do not do those things.
"a lot" ≠ most
This is enshitification, but it might be indirectly helping people who are on Twitter too much 😄
It doesn't do much to bot farms since they can keep spinning up more accounts
I would argue you cannot enshitify a service that was already shit. At this point this is more of a conshitidation.
I never thought I'd like using a word more than enshittification, but conshitidation takes the cake, I think.
Enshittification doesn't mean "making a good system bad". It's a specific process whereby the user experience of a platform is degraded in order to benefit the business partners. Then even the business partners are ripped off to benefit the platform owners.
If you want to get picky, Xwitter didn't enshitify as laid out as a concept by Cory Doctorow. The best example is probably Amazon which went from being insanely user friendly to lock in users, to supplier-friendly and increasingly less so for users, until it had squeezed and shafted both groups. That's enshitification and it doesn't apply to Xwitter. They had problems to make money before a certain somebody bought it. They've been bleeding users since the eventually Nazi saluting manbaby bought it, who then wanted to sue advertisers who refused to buy ads on his service. There was no user lock-in and then a supplier lock-in. There was just shit. All their current problems are man made. By one specific man.
Just because it is caused by one man doesn't mean it isn't entshittification.
Yeah but it isn't here.
If these restrictions are significant, please seek therapy
I guess it's for customer care
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?
Yes I have. It was not good.
hey now the gipity gonna save us all. It is the greatest invention ever. 🤤
Multiple reasons, but I'd be lying if I claimed it's not partly out of spite for all the people who get hilariously angry about it. I'm also subscribed to SuperGrok.
Imagine getting angry because other people do things you don't like, even though it doesn't affect you in any way whatsoever. Stop hitting yourself.
Nope, doesn't affect me at all... oh, wait, I can no longer afford a platter drive or ssd to expand storage, I can no longer afford ram, cpus, soon to be pcbs. Nope, doesn't affect anyone anywhere at all.
Recently bought a 1tb m.2 for a friend, it cost more than the 2tb I bought in december
Well people using twitter surely aren't to blame for that which is what I was responding to here.
People using LLMs do drive up the demand for computer components, I'll give you that, though even there it's a bit more nuanced than that.
You: "I turned fascist just to spite people who gets hilariously angry about fascism".
That same logic makes you a communist then. And me a communist fascist I guess? Go figure.. Difficult to keep up with the insane troll logic you're displaying here.
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
Oh, man, this will affect tens of people.
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?
My thoughts also... who the hell posts more than 50 times a day... well that's twitter isn't probably paid for with our tax dollars anyway.
Twitter being paid for with our tax dollars is the first explanation I've heard which sounds like a way this company could actually continue to function.
Pretty much anyone whose username ends in .eth or begins with a dollar sign or has a crypto address in their bio, but the vast majority of those people already pay for that blue checkmark anyway
I consider myself quite active on Lemmy yet I still only average 12 comments and half a post per day. For all I know, Lemmy could have these same limits and I'd never even find out about it.
Twits. It's a social class and a diagnosis.
Mastodon doesn't have these limits.
Oh, no!
Anyway...
Oh no! The nazi bar has set a drink limit! Guess I'll just have to continue not drinking there.
That means I'll end each day having only 50 posts remaining...
Even when I had an account years ago there was not a single day I posted/replied/commented/shared more than 1-3 times a day (1-3 interactions a day)
It was never my thing really so it was easy to remove from my life.
Who cares. Piece of shit platform.
Since 2007 or so, I haven't seen a good use case for Xitter other than situations where mass messaging is necessary. Like a utility company announcing maintenance or outages. Why do people care so much about what other people think?
My dear mother taught me that opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one and they all stink.
Wise woman.
this saying doesnt apply universally, what about people into butt stuff that regularly bleach their assholes you tear into that after a good bleaching/shower (and enema, if you want to be safe), it's fine
The upside of Twitter's downfall has been the absence of "look what so and so said in a tweet" headlines.
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?
I'd like to know how many of that 70% left are dead accounts.
......at least 1.
It's because he's an idiot.
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.
This is great! We need more enshittification on X!
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...
Good, will make people get off Xwitter.
Do real people use this? Though it was just bots and trolls...
Are trolls not real people?
hardly.. 😂
But the bots will be less effective. I bet the API charges are going up soon.
How could anyone limit themselves to 50 posts on apartheid-fan-boi.facist?
Fortunately, now I'm using mastodon
Great news. Go on Elon!!! Kill your platform!!! Do it!!!
Another wave in the making.
omgawd sucker. I want it to speed up. Omgawd loser turds