Elon has responded to the criticism and is increasing the limits to a whopping:
Verified accounts: 8000 posts/day
Unverified accounts: 800 posts/day
New unverified accounts: 400 posts/day
Don't you want users to be on the platform as long as possible to maximize ad revenue? If this was just to force people to pay for verification, why wouldn't they make that tier unlimited? I honestly can't even believe this is real.
So a subscription is only 10x more valuable than a non-paying leech?
Who reads more than 800 posts every day? I only ever get on twitter for juice drama every few months
I could probably scroll 600-800 replies on like 5 sports free agency drama tweets. It counts just scrolling by a reply or post against your limit.
Elon himself has spammed me numerous times when scrolling down reading other tweets to subscribe to him. 800 is nothing. Think about those large mega threads on reddit for sporting events or whatever. You would 1000s of posts.
Someone is desperate to monetize lurkers. That seems like a self-defeating strategy.
400 posts a day seems like a lot. Am I missing something here? Is a post a tweet?
In fairness, most Twitter users do need to touch grass...
Unverified and new unverified? Lol. What's exactly "new" here?
A new account, presumably.
When you do the right thing for the wrong reason...
Seems Elon wants to keep Twitter as his own personal echo chamber and having an exclusive club for like-minded folk willing to pay. Limiting posts is one thing, reading limitations is just crazy.
That is so cool. Elon is just trying to help.
If you have 800 posts available and you read a post every 10 seconds, then you can only spend 2,2 hours per day on the site before you can't see new posts.
Twitter basically forces its users to verify their accounts to use the site in a normal way. That will definitly backfire.
My question is , What is smoking this guy??
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