Technology@lemmy.worldbybeep@piefed.world
10 hours

X announces significant restrictions to free accounts; 50 posts and 200 replies per day

htxt.co.za English

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1135683/x-announces-significant-restrictions-to-free-accounts-50-posts-and-200-replies-per-day

  • Direct Messages (daily): The limit is 500 messages sent per day.
  • Posts: 50 original posts and 200 replies per day for unverified accounts. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals.
  • Changes to account email: 4 per hour.
  • Following (daily): The technical follow limit is 400 per day. Please note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior.
  • Following (account-based): Once an account is following 5,000 other accounts, additional follow attempts are limited by account-specific ratios.
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    X announces significant restrictions to free accounts - Hypertext
    htxt.co.za
    X is pushing more users to get verified by announcing new restrictions in terms of daily post and reply limits for free accounts.
    • OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3 hours

      Since 2007 or so, I haven’t seen a good use case for Xitter other than situations where mass messaging is necessary. Like a utility company announcing maintenance or outages. Why do people care so much about what other people think?

      My dear mother taught me that opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one and they all stink.

      Wise woman.

      • IronBird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 hours

        this saying doesnt apply universally, what about people into butt stuff that regularly bleach their assholes you tear into that after a good bleaching/shower (and enema, if you want to be safe), it’s fine

    • oyzmo@piefed.socialEnglish
      3 hours

      Do real people use this? Though it was just bots and trolls…

    • someguy3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      Does anyone actually reach those numbers? Is this a crackdown on bots?

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      9 hours

      This is enshitification, but it might be indirectly helping people who are on Twitter too much 😄

      It doesn’t do much to bot farms since they can keep spinning up more accounts

      • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
        9 hours

        I would argue you cannot enshitify a service that was already shit. At this point this is more of a conshitidation.

        • Zagorath@quokk.auEnglish
          5 hours

          Enshittification doesn’t mean “making a good system bad”. It’s a specific process whereby the user experience of a platform is degraded in order to benefit the business partners. Then even the business partners are ripped off to benefit the platform owners.

          • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
            3 hours

            If you want to get picky, Xwitter didn’t enshitify as laid out as a concept by Cory Doctorow. The best example is probably Amazon which went from being insanely user friendly to lock in users, to supplier-friendly and increasingly less so for users, until it had squeezed and shafted both groups. That’s enshitification and it doesn’t apply to Xwitter. They had problems to make money before a certain somebody bought it. They’ve been bleeding users since the eventually Nazi saluting manbaby bought it, who then wanted to sue advertisers who refused to buy ads on his service. There was no user lock-in and then a supplier lock-in. There was just shit. All their current problems are man made. By one specific man.

    • kurmudgeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 hours

      Why the fuck do people still use Twitter? Why would you pay to use social media? You’re already the product, and now you’re going to pay to be the fucking product? Are you stupid?

    • mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      I’m happy to say that the only time I’ve ever even been on twitter was to check down times on destiny 2 servers which at the time was literally the only place they’d post stuff like that… Nobody knows why… But then again it’s bungie… So…

    • Chozo@fedia.io
      8 hours

      Oh no! The nazi bar has set a drink limit! Guess I’ll just have to continue not drinking there.

    • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
      9 hours

      Its so hard for me to believe that there are people out there for whom this will be an issue. Who are these people and what’s wrong with them?

      • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
        8 hours

        My thoughts also… who the hell posts more than 50 times a day… well that’s twitter isn’t probably paid for with our tax dollars anyway.

        • urushitan 漆たん@kakera.kintsugi.moeEnglish
          4 hours

          Pretty much anyone whose username ends in .eth or begins with a dollar sign or has a crypto address in their bio, but the vast majority of those people already pay for that blue checkmark anyway

        • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
          7 hours

          Twitter being paid for with our tax dollars is the first explanation I’ve heard which sounds like a way this company could actually continue to function.

    • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8 hours

      The upside of Twitter’s downfall has been the absence of “look what so and so said in a tweet” headlines.

    • dmtalon@infosec.pubEnglish
      9 hours

      That means I’ll end each day having only 50 posts remaining…

      Even when I had an account years ago there was not a single day I posted/replied/commented/shared more than 1-3 times a day (1-3 interactions a day)

      It was never my thing really so it was easy to remove from my life.