WARNING: The following post contains one (1) tweet that may or may not count against your daily reading limit.
On Saturday, Twitter’s executive chairman and chief technology officer Elon Musk—in a supposed effort to combat data scraping and system manipulation—issued “temporary” reading limits on his site’s users. The first implementation of the policy limited verified users to viewing 6,000 tweets per day, unverified users to 600 tweets per day and new unverified users to 300 tweets per day.
Then, as has been the case with numerous changes under Musk, the goalposts moved. The rate limits were upped to 8,000 for verified users, 800 for unverified users and 400 for new unverified users later that afternoon and—by the evening—adjusted again to a 10,000-1,000-500 mark.
Whether this is an earnest effort to fix the issue or another misguided ploy to get folks to fork over eight bucks a month, Carolina Panthers Johnny Hekker poked some fun at the hectic day on the increasingly hellish app:
Y’all better not waste my time on here now…only got 600 tweets to see…no time for fluff!
— Johnny Hekker (@JHekker) July 2, 2023
This is not the first time a Panther has been rubbed the wrong way by Musk’s Twitter. Just ask defensive tackle Shy Tuttle if he’s paid for validation yet.
So, for whichever limit you’re currently up against, tweet and read wisely, friends.
