(07-02-2023, 03:58 AM)Ninurta Wrote: Shit fire!
Folks have the time to read EIGHT HUNDRED posts a day, and still find time to bitch about being "limited'? No damned wonder they are living off Cheetos in their mother's basements - they ain't got time to work a damned job!
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Not quite. You've heard the term doom scrolling, right? 800 tweets will get you about 10 minutes of reading. A tweet may only have one word or just an emoji, that counts too. So, as you're scrolling (not reading) and/or reading threads, all those tweets count. That's why Elon increased the limit several times already. Even the blue checks are having issues and once you hit your limit you cannot even view your own tweets. LOL. Least that was how it was going yesterday. I typically follow several group lists (like minded users on particular topics) and will quickly rack up 5-6000 tweets in short order. Those who use an app like tweetdeck to have a running feed of followers (like the old RSS) will easily rack up 10,000 or more in an afternoon.
Prior to the rate limit the vast majority of twat users have been unverified old & new accounts & no account at all, which are now considerably restricted and including no access at all. The screen scraping issue is a plague with no real solution so apparently Elon decided to drop a nuke and kill everything along with the host. It'll all probably change within the week as the complaints roll in and people leave for greener pastures...if any are to be found. This could also be a test of some kind (network flows to social experimenting), migrating servers, more purging, making adjustments for the new Matrix, and/or not paying the storage bill.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell