Elon Musk has announced a new “temporary” limit on the number of posts people can read, continuing to denounce Twitter’s new limits on AI companies collecting “huge amounts of data”. there is
Going forward, unverified accounts will only be able to see 600 posts per day, and “new” unverified accounts will only be able to see 300 posts per day. Verified account limits (perhaps purchased as part of a Twitter Blue subscription, granted through an organization, or enforced by Elon on Stephen King, LeBron James, and others with over 1 million followers) You can only read up to 6,000 posts per day (regardless of authentication).
Shortly after, Mr. Musk tweeted The rate limit will be increased “soon” to 8,000 Tweets for verified users, 800 Tweets for unverified users, and 400 Tweets for new unverified accounts.
This restriction came into effect the day after Twitter suddenly began blocking access for users who weren’t logged in. Musk argued that “hundreds of organizations (probably more) are scraping his Twitter data very aggressively, affecting the real data.” user experience. “
The change is just one of several ways Musk has tried to monetize Twitter over the past few months. The company announced in March his API changes in three stages, starting to charge for API usage. This was just three months after finally rolling out his revamped $8/month Twitter Blue pay-for verification scheme. Musk has also appointed Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO to replace himself. The former head of advertising at NBCUniversal has been hired to mend relationships with advertisers who were cutting spending on Twitter.
As a private company, we know less about Twitter’s financials than it did before Musk’s acquisition, but Yaccarino’s hiring reflects how important advertising revenue is to the business. Restricting access to the site directly runs counter to the goal of creating opportunities to see advertising spots that companies are paying for, but Musk’s monopoly-brain view of Twitter overshadows it. may be hidden.
When YouTube personality MrBeast answeredMusk said he would try and see how long it would take him to see 6,000 posts answered“Within 1 hour and 9 minutes!”
But he did not address his decision to lay off more than half of Twitter’s employees, including those critical to maintaining its infrastructure, since taking over the company last fall. Unplanned layoffs have forced the company to rehire some of its laid-off engineers, and people have repeatedly warned that laying off so many people would affect Twitter’s stability.
Last November, an anonymous Twitter engineer was interviewed. MIT Technology Review After layoffs “things will break more often. Things will break after being used for a long time. Things will break in a more serious way… It might be a small annoyance at first, but the back end As fixes are delayed, problems accumulate until people eventually give up.” In the same article, site reliability engineer Ben Krueger said, “Within six months, we’ll be seeing a I expect that we will start to see some serious issues that are open to the public,” he said. It’s seven o’clock.
