Twitter has applied temporary reading limits to address "extreme levels" of data scraping and system manipulation, Elon Musk has said.
  • auth@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    We don’t need limits on Lemmy… most of the time the instances are down

  • Blaiz0r@lemmy.mlEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    Sounds fair enough if you read some of the articles it’s for accounts that read over 6000 posts a dayz so as to combat scraper bots.

    Twitter has to manage 3rd parties paying for their API somehow

    • LetsGOikz@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      6000 tweets is only for people with Twitter Blue, and it counts scrolling past a series of tweets on your timeline as reading them, so it’s really easy to hit that limit even as a paying bootlicker.

      For those of us sane enough to not spend any money on that godforsaken platform, it’s only 600 tweets, which is disgustingly easy to hit. Scroll a little through your timeline, open a few tweets to read replies, and you’ve hit your limit in less than 30 minutes.

      • Blaiz0r@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Sorry, you’re right it’s 600 a day, but seriously I don’t think that’s a problem it’s probably doing us a favour too.

        I couldn’t imagine spending 30 a day total on Twitter.

        They want people to pay for the platform, this is how they’re doing it.