Mildly Infuriating

The sad part is that all the Musk evangelists (and there are a lot of them) will happily pay for a 'verified' account if they happen to exceed the limit.

Incompetent Narcissism is the term I've used for Musk and others who think they are brilliant, but in reality just aren't. But, they have an insatiable desire to be seen as brilliant and the easiest way to do that is to have crazy ideas that, because they are crazy, others don't have. Sometimes those ideas pan out and they are seen as brilliant ... and that really resonates for them. Most of the time those crazy ideas absolutely fail ... they externalize the cause in those cases. The real damage comes when these Incompetent Narcissists have the money and/or power/influence to make it happen. Musk and Trump are prime examples of this.

I'm quite shocked Elon would implement a policy that is counter to the purpose of twitter... As controversial as it is, doomscrolling is probably twitter's biggest busines

Quite curious with the timing of it all, it's like a period of change where most things turn to the worse for apparently no reason.

This only makes sense when you understand that he’s intentionally trying to destroy Twitter.

I don't know if I could do a worse job running Twitter if I tried

Don't link to reddit, use teddit 😄

Right, it's oddly calm and peaceful here. It's nice watching it burn from the other side of the river. - trying to delete this double comment but can't. I'm guessing just press post once even if it says that it failed?

How to limit your ad revenue in one step

This is an attempt of someone shortsighted trying to play the long run. If you think bots are the reason for this, you are wrong. Limits are carefully chosen so that they severely hinder non-paying users. Musk is neither good at solving issues nor is he good at planning things. This is his attempt to force more people to buy Twitter Blue.

If you are running a bot or 7, paying 8$ is nothing.

He's just a nutjob. Sorry, but that's what it is. A prime example for "the typical CEO".

I don't get why anyone would still hype this guy.

i feel like chronic tweeters will burn through the 2 last limits very easy

Imagine paying 40billion dollars on a company to just sink it, and being like "oh well still rich lol"

I've never had an interest in twitter. Just not something I could see the point of myself. But it sure is popcorn inducing watching Musk speedrun it into the ground.

first Reddit, now Twitter? What's next? Facebook? Tiktok? I hope it's both.

My completely unfounded and speculative pet theory is that when casual punters tried to read Reddit using their favourite 3rd Party app, and couldn’t, they went to use Twitter instead.

Since Twitter has been haemorrhaging regular users all year, and trying to cut costs, their diminished infrastructure couldn’t handle it, causing Elon to panic and release his policy change.

Musk never wanted to buy Twitter. So he's going to run it into the ground but never say it was his fault, Twitter just had an unsustainable business model.

BlueSky and Meta's Twitter clone will likely be what most people will migrate to. Haven't seen or heard as much about people going to Mastodon though.