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.
Let me get this straight…
Elon musk buys twitter for 44 BILLION dollars with the expectation that it will help be influencial towards societies general conversation.
So then he starts turning twitter into a right wing cesspool, and some users start leaving. Granted, not nearly enough. I think I read about 30% of the site has left, but thats still far too many who haven’t left.
So despite his stupidity, he still has a sizeable platform. And his thought process is…“hey, you know those influencial voices we have on society? Lets limit those!”
So now they are reducing the amount of messages their users can put out into the world.
…so what is even the goal here? Are they just doing things to stay in the news?
It’s because he’s an idiot.
I’d like to know how many of that 70% left are dead accounts.
…at least 1.
Gotta extract more value from the reduced user base. Think Netflix. Plus, they gotta recoup AI “investment” costs, and the remaining people on Xitter are predominantly mouth breathing rubes.
Add that to foresight only as far as the next quarter and it’s the most logical recipe for success /s
Stop trying to make sense of what he is doing. He is a common criminal fascist who is getting his nut just like sam gipity… Scammers don’t need to make sense.