Did anyone hear of Twitter limiting viewing tweets to 300 to new unverified accounts, 600 to older unverified accounts and 6000 for verified accounts? You can't view tweets if you are not signed up, too... They did say it was a temporary thing, but still is a pretty weird move, if you ask me.

This is gonna fuck over so many people it's hard to put into words.

Less access to twitter is better for everyone

But but but, how do they get your tasty data and browsing habits if you don't tell them who you are?

I honestly think this whole pay-to-have information bullshit is bad for everyone ngl. What’s next, ur gonna have to pay to get popular SO answers?

imo these companies should be paying the users. as all of them are wasting their time

My best guess is that they have just run out of cloud infrastructure money / provisioned contracts and are now routing all requests in the world to their few on-premises servers in the USA.
The fact that this beyond-moronic move is being pulled in the first day of the quarter supports that hypothesis.
Since some aging heaters in Portland can hardly keep up with the entire world's traffic, they are now rationing the access.
That... may actually work to curb costs, but will also ruin the only selling point of the entire platform: fanatic user engagement.

@electrineer damn beat me to it. I came here just to say this

It's actually the AI that scrape over the data hosted by these platforms is what's costing them money.

You can be Twitter v2 and try avoiding AIs making 100s of thousands of requests to your servers. You would be compelled to implement the same thing.

OpenAI actually got sued over this thing where the AI is accessing data without the author's consent.

Pretty funny how nobody batted an eye when AI started replacing artists but when big companies got their costs up by AI they immediately went to court.

It motivated me to finally log out of Twitter on all my devices and go all in on Mastodon instead.

Already stopped posting new tweets and was only replying and liking, but that was the final straw.

@matthewbdaly how will they recoverfrom your exit.

What’s twitter, again?

@Nanos it’s the number of posts you can view, not the number of words.
So that technique wouldn’t solve the issue.

@chonky-quiche To be fair, the much maligned Experts Exchange did precisely that, and it's one of the biggest reasons why Stack Overflow surpassed them long ago.

@matthewbdaly interesting - I did not know that

@mansur85 came here to say this. from now on when I want to make a post I'll just doublecheck your comments to see if you already read my mind for the day.