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Explainer: What does Twitter 'rate limit exceeded' mean for users? (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by nulluser@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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July 3 (Reuters) - Elon Musk’s Twitter has put a temporary limit on the number of tweets that users can see each day, a move that has sparked some backlash and could undermine the social network’s efforts to attract advertisers.

The limit, imposed to “address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation”, is the latest change by Twitter, which was last year acquired by Musk for $44 billion.

What does the latest change mean and what are the alternatives to Twitter? How do the changes impact users?

Users cannot view tweets without logging in to the platform. Verified accounts can now read 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts 600 posts and new un-verified accounts 300 posts. After that, users will get a message that says, “rate limit exceeded”.

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[–] cornbread@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never really used twitter but the few accounts I’ve seen that follow the war were also very pro-Ukraine. What is a good source for an accurate picture of what’s happening (I’m not looking for pro-Russian, either, fuck Russia)?

[–] truffle@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I follow Kofmanmichael and RALee85. They’re pro Ukraine but they give more realistic views of what’s happening without a lot of thé propaganda. They are happy to criticize Ukraine when it’s doing something wrong as well which is good to see. I think Michael works for CNA and Rob works for FPRI. I’ll also follow some of the accounts they retweet from time to time as they tend to be good sources as well (Tatarigami_UA and Defmon3).