Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
well, I've been around. https://twitter.com/... Luke Zaleski / @zaleskiluke : On the one hand, same. But also she's saying it all with her silence right now. Elon is twitter. And Twitter is broken https://twitter.com/... Patrick W. Watson / @patrickw : Twitter's new CEO was already undermined long before she was hired. Musk was never going to let anyone else make CEO-level decisions. Worse, since she can't make any credible commitments, advertisers have no reason to believe anything she says. https://www.reuters.com/... @rmac18 : Yesterday was a good barometer for the standing of Twitter's new CEO. The site under went into crisis, ostensibly caused by its owner, and she has yet to say anything publicly. Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k @0xngmi : llamao [image] @huntingthedead : I've never once read 100 tweets in one day, I'm beyond unaffected by this 🤷♂️ https://twitter.com/... Jason Goldman / @goldman : Yes, the service which has both crippled itself to prevent its users' content from being seen and also introduced arbitrary speech rules like “cis is a slur” is definitely thinking about building the decentralized future imagined here [image] Lauren / @notabigjerk : its absolutely insane zuck might win in the end. he flushed billions down the toilet on web3 but no one else is realistically positioned to step in with a decent clone for the site bought by the only guy weirder than him. just goes to show, staying in the game is all that matters @jack : Running Twitter is hard. I don't wish that stress upon anyone. I trust that the team is doing their best under the constraints they have, which are immense. It's easy to critique the decisions from afar...which I'm guilty of...but I know the goal is to see Twitter thrive. It will. Benjy Sarlin / @benjysarlin : Weird we aren't getting updates from the Twitter CEO who is the person in charge of company as everyone knows @davenewworld_2 : A story in 3 acts [image] Aaron Levie / @levie : Just was rate limited for a few hours. In that time I got to inbox zero, wrote 6 blog posts, went on a bike ride, pivoted a company, read 2 books, and learned Japanese. Rate limits will save humanity. @austin_rief : There's never been a better time to compete with twitter. If I'm Zuck, I'm launching my Twitter competitor today. https://twitter.com/... Alex Valaitis / @alex_valaitis : The armchair quarterbacking from @jack is so tiresome. Under his control: -Twitter engaged in massive censorship -Did not integrate with any open protocols -Little-to-no product innovation Now: -Constantly promotes competitor apps -Pumps his bags (both he + Square own a ton... https://twitter.com/... @auschwitzmuseum : .@twitter @elonmusk Support memory by excluding tweets of @AuschwitzMuseum from the limits. Most of our tweets commemorate individual victims of the Auschwitz camp on their birthdays. We remind their names, faces and their fate. They deserve to be seen and remembered by all. https://twitter.com/... Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam : Musk's Twitter rate limits could undermine new CEO, ad experts say See also Mediagazer
The limits matter because their duration is unclear; coverage of the same episode noted no timeline for lifting them. That uncertainty makes a scraping defense also a visible reliability and governance issue for the platform.
First-order effects
Verified, unverified, and newly created accounts face sharply different daily reading ceilings, immediately constraining heavy users and any service that depends on regular access to posts.
Twitter reduces the volume of content its users and potential scrapers can retrieve while it addresses what Musk describes as extreme scraping.
Second-order effects
Rate caps can push developers, researchers, publishers, and power users toward alternative data sources or platforms when Twitter access is too limited for their workflows.
An open-ended restriction raises the operating cost of retaining users and advertisers: they must assess platform utility without a clear timetable for normal access to return.
Third-order effects
If access controls become a recurring response to scraping or capacity pressure, social platforms may increasingly treat public content as a metered resource rather than an openly browsable web layer.
The episode highlights a structural trade-off between limiting automated extraction and preserving the reach, interoperability, and user experience that make a social network valuable.
The trend: Social platforms are tightening access to public content as automated collection and infrastructure strain make openness harder to sustain.
a real sign the twitter apocalypse is swelling: have seen multiple sports twitter accounts jumping to bluesky in the past day who had not even heard of this place a week ago
Again, pretty much the only thing keeping me checking out Twitter had been baseball (but with the new limits I stopped). I've offered invites to baseball folks, but no luck getting any of them over here. [embedded post]
Watching these final, calamitous days of Twitter makes me realise what it must be like to be a lifelong fan of a ruinously mismanaged League Two club that's on its knees. ELON, YOU ARE MERELY A CUSTODIAN OF THIS PLATFORM
so excited to download movies for free on twitter as soon as this feature gets implemented. say hello to the best pirating website of all time https://twitter.com/... [image]
Twitter in-app purchases are down ~30% since April peak to $3m monthly. Even if Twitter kept all of it (they don't), that's only 10-20% of their Google Cloud invoice. [image]
As a critic, I employ a distinction between what I expect, and what I predict. So I expect Twitter's CEO to address the rate limit confusion, because CEOs are supposed to take reponsibility for such things. But I do not predict this will happen because— well, I've been around. ht…
Twitter's new CEO was already undermined long before she was hired. Musk was never going to let anyone else make CEO-level decisions. Worse, since she can't make any credible commitments, advertisers have no reason to believe anything she says. https://www.reuters.com/...
Yesterday was a good barometer for the standing of Twitter's new CEO. The site under went into crisis, ostensibly caused by its owner, and she has yet to say anything publicly.
Running Twitter is hard. I don't wish that stress upon anyone. I trust that the team is doing their best under the constraints they have, which are immense. It's easy to critique the decisions from afar...which I'm guilty of...but I know the goal is to see Twitter thrive. It will…
Yes, the service which has both crippled itself to prevent its users' content from being seen and also introduced arbitrary speech rules like “cis is a slur” is definitely thinking about building the decentralized future imagined here [image]
its absolutely insane zuck might win in the end. he flushed billions down the toilet on web3 but no one else is realistically positioned to step in with a decent clone for the site bought by the only guy weirder than him. just goes to show, staying in the game is all that matters
Just was rate limited for a few hours. In that time I got to inbox zero, wrote 6 blog posts, went on a bike ride, pivoted a company, read 2 books, and learned Japanese. Rate limits will save humanity.
The armchair quarterbacking from @jack is so tiresome. Under his control: -Twitter engaged in massive censorship -Did not integrate with any open protocols -Little-to-no product innovation Now: -Constantly promotes competitor apps -Pumps his bags (both he + Square own a ton... ht…
.@twitter @elonmusk Support memory by excluding tweets of @AuschwitzMuseum from the limits. Most of our tweets commemorate individual victims of the Auschwitz camp on their birthdays. We remind their names, faces and their fate. They deserve to be seen and remembered by all. http…