Does anyone think it’s a coincidence Elon pulls this stunt the same day Reddit’s new API rules go into effect? Something’s happening.
The free speech folks sure love making a buck on our speech. Slowly online forums will be paywalled and controlled.
Elon Musk Announces Temporary Cap on the Number of Tweets Twitter Users Can Read Each Day
“Elon Musk is making some more changes to Twitter.
On Saturday, Musk — who currently owns the social media platform — revealed that it would apply “temporary limits” to Twitter accounts, including limiting the number of tweets accounts can read per day.
According to the Space X CEO, verified accounts can access up to 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts can see 600 posts per day and “new” unverified accounts are limited to 300 posts per day. He said the action is being implemented in effort to “address extreme levels of data scraping.”
Within hours, the multi-billionaire revealed alterations to his initial announcement, however.
“Rate limits increasing soon to 8,000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400”
Update:
Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
UPDATE – Twitter apparently has started to "rate limit" logged-in users. Probably a fallout of disabling public profiles, as parties scraping Twitter content now have to use sessions. pic.twitter.com/QKtMSOLtTO
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 1, 2023
Reddit making API unaffordable to lock down censorship
Reddit will begin charging for access to its API
h/t Total_Customer_6627