This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
Someone is desperate to monetize lurkers. That seems like a self-defeating strategy.
So a subscription is only 10x more valuable than a non-paying leech?
400 posts a day seems like a lot. Am I missing something here? Is a post a tweet?
Touch grass, indeed
In fairness, most Twitter users do need to touch grass...
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.
Unverified and new unverified? Lol. What's exactly "new" here?
A new account, presumably.
When you do the right thing for the wrong reason...
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??
That is so cool. Elon is just trying to help.
Has he finally go completely insane? It feels like he wants to kill the platform for some reason