#unverified accounts can view 600 tweets a day

[aroceu]

I feel like we all keep coming back to tumblr because every other website is, somehow, becoming more dysfunctional than this already somewhat dysfunctional website

[wolfnanaki]

Twitter is, officially, unironically, dead.

Early today, almost everyone was having trouble viewing anything on Twitter. Eventually Elon tweeted this: viewing limits for all users.

Verified accounts - people who buy Twitter Blue - are limited to reading 6,000 posts per day. Unverified accounts can only read 600, and new unverified accounts only 300. He later updated the numbers to 8,000, 800, and 400 respectively, but the impact is the same. And if you're not logged in, you can't see any tweets at all.

This isn't even interacting with posts, such as liking, replying, retweeting, or quote-tweeting. This is viewing. The one basic interaction required to use any social media site.

Elon Musk is clawing back every basic feature and pushing a pay-to-win scheme onto everyone still on the site. And what do you get if you pay? You get to be in a club filled with the most vile, racist, queerphobic losers on the internet who invest their money into crypto, NFTs, and all sorts of lousy scams. No sensible person is going to pay for that.

Once upon a time, Twitter was a fabulous hub for at-the-moment developments. If there was breaking news somewhere in the world, you could know it within minutes. It gradually became a general hub for people of all walks of life, from artists, activists, politicians, everyday ordinary people.

Now it's just a place where you pay $8 to lick Elon Musk's shoe.

To quote a good friend of mine:

[ghoooooooooooooooost]

oh n if ppl who were already following me here are wondering what my last post was abt: musk made it so we all can only view/read a specific amount of tweets a day.

for unverified accounts (the vast majority of us) we can only look at 300-600 tweets a day depending on when we made our accounts

i already hit the limit by casually scrolling this morning n now my tl looks like this

it also stops you from looking at ppl's accounts, including your own

needless to say this is a dumbass awful decision that'll negatively effect absolutely everyone there

edit: lol.

[artxsticsuper]

Announcement for July!

Hey all my supers and 4*Townies! I’ve come to make an announcement and it involves my current plans for July.

[Twitter alternative] where I will post my nsfw art

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Due to Twitter’s recent updates before all the ruckus with Instagram becoming the new Twitter with their new app Threads, I am unfortunately going to reduce the number of tweets I create on there, including my nsfw tweets. Because of the limit to viewing no more than 600 tweets per day for unverified accounts, it reduces the chance of other people being able to view my content. In terms of using an alternative for nsfw art, those will be posted on Pixiv instead. I can still continue to post on Twitter but do expect me to spend less time posting anything on there.

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About my masterlist and my upcoming entries.

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As of me posting this, I am currently working on my new pfp for the summer which is based on Evelyn from Incredibles 2. After I work on both that and my BirdTown AU, I will take a small break from posting anything 4*Town related and do entries from other fandoms. It may some time, but I’ll still post some more stuff from 4*Town soon. In the meantime, feel free to ask me questions related to 4*Town or anything outside of that!

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[cykelops]

Apparently Elon tried to implement a rule that limits the number of tweets an unverified account can view — yes, view, not make — to 600 a day. And that led to some unforeseen ripple effect that broke the website.

It’s so wild isn’t it !! I will always be unverified on Twitter because I’m not giving this man Smoothie King level money just to be blue.

[zannatykhatun]

The door of Weibo is always open to welcome overseas painters traveling eastward.

“Chinese doesn’t look like Chinese, and Japanese doesn’t look like Japanese, but I actually understand it”…

Nothing surprising, because they are all starting to become Chinese.

After July 2, a large number of painters who were originally active on Twitter suddenly flocked to Weibo. In order to promote communication, overseas bloggers, mainly Japanese painters, some used Google Translator, and some simply abandoned the blunt machine. The translation directly used "New Chinese".

New Chinese is a communication method  HE Tuber that became popular in Japan in the past few years. Japanese grammar is generally ignored and Chinese characters in Japanese are directly used to form sentences. Therefore, although the entire sentence is written in Chinese characters, it may sound a bit inconsistent for Chinese people to read it, but it does not affect the understanding of the general meaning of the sentence.

In New Chinese, Jun = you, Private = me, Hui = painting, and Bendang = true. "Get started" means "skilled, good at, good." The teacher is a teacher... "Chinese Bendang" is often praised in the comment area. "Get started" means "Chinese is really good".

In the comment area of ​​Japanese painters, some responded seriously with the same "New Chinese", while others strived to make a conspicuous bag.

The happy scene on the Chinese Internet is thanks to Musk. “Musk’s words made the whole world speak Chinese.”

As soon as Twitter's traffic restriction measures came out, Weibo, which has been called the "Chinese version of Twitter" for several years, welcomed a large number of high-quality overseas painters who left Twitter.

Perhaps, this "Twitter decline and Weibo prosperity" drama has just begun.

1. When people sit at home, granaries come up from the sky?

In the early morning of July 2, “in order to restrict third parties from grabbing Twitter data,” Twitter CEO Musk announced Twitter’s new policy—all users will be limited in the number of posts they can view per day: Blue Label Certified users can read 6,000 posts per day; ordinary uncertified users can read 600 posts per day; newly registered unverified users are limited to 300 posts per day.

600 per day sounds like a lot, but it is not.

According to Twitter's mechanism, views are not counted if you click on the post to view the details. If you don't click on the post, swiping it, retweeting, and even commenting are included in the quota of 600 posts.

Someone has tested it, and it only takes 5 minutes to reach the limit of 600 tweets.

As for Twitter's blue label certification, it costs US$8 per month, which is equivalent to more than RMB 500 per year.

Amid users' dissatisfaction and protests, the uncertain billionaire changed the quota of 300, 600, and 6,000 to 400, 800, and 8,000, and later increased it to 500, 1,000, and 10,000, but it was still unacceptable to users.

Musk, who frequently engages in risqué behavior, was successfully scolded and ranked No. 1 on Twitter in the United States. He also joined other social media such as Tumblr and Tik Tok on the list. Many Twitter bloggers called on fans to follow their accounts on other platforms. .

Among them, a large number of Japanese painters have traveled across the ocean and are preparing to "settle down" on Weibo.

Amidst the voices of "Twitter is restricted" and "Please take care of me", the newly settled painters showed a standard business attitude and showed their paintings first, expressing their intentions and preferences. High-quality overseas painters immediately posted on Weibo It has advanced to what netizens call the "Cyber ​​Louvre".

Character illustrations, scene illustrations, art illustrations, game illustrations... Weibo users were stunned by the colorful paintings displayed by overseas artists.

The timely launch of the "one-click follow" function on Weibo has greatly increased the number of fans of painters who have already attracted much attention. One on the left is 100,000 yuan, and the other on the right is 400,000 yuan, which just makes overseas painters feel a little Chinese shock.

For example, the Japanese illustrator. His paintings have his own unique world view and the artist's unique brushwork. He mainly draws imaginary ancient Chinese hermits. He has nearly 80,000 followers on Twitter.

However, within a few days of joining Weibo, the number of fans easily exceeded 400,000.

Chinese people are accustomed to interacting with bloggers through comments, but Twitter’s special mechanism has allowed overseas users to develop the habit of retweeting > commenting. A tweet with tens of thousands of likes may only have a few dozen comments.

Therefore, the "prosperous comment culture" allows overseas wives to fully feel the enthusiasm of Weibo users.

Overseas artist NANASE Miri, who currently has more than 430,000 followers, bluntly said that the comments received are "500 million times more than those on Twitter."

Unlike lifestyle and current affairs bloggers, most two-dimensional painters have always been in the niche traffic pool of Weibo and are not discovered by the public. This Twitter diversion incident not only gives an opportunity to overseas painters, but also makes many treasured domestic painters and his paintings are seen by more people.

Many overseas painters who have benefited from the traffic bonus are very willing to repost the wonderful works of domestic painters, or attract traffic to outstanding domestic painters who are little known.

Sina Weibo has also opened up a unique Amway tag and publicity channel for domestic artists.

Recently opened Weibo screen

Some Weibo users said that they followed more than 200 domestic and foreign painters by following their forwarding links and Weibo’s recommendation pages.

Therefore, whether they are domestic painters or foreign painters, whether they are "food producers" or "eats", everyone should have the same reaction -

There are so many people...

2. Why do all the painters come to Weibo?

Since Musk acquired Twitter, the world's largest social platform, for $440, "willful operations" have not happened twice.

As for the reason why Musk suddenly restricted the flow of Twitter, in connection with previous news, on June 11, Platformer reported that Twitter refused to pay its upcoming Google Cloud bill, which may lead to Twitter’s Trust and safety teams are paralyzed.

According to reports, before Musk acquired Twitter, Twitter signed a multi-year contract with Google, involving services such as combating spam and protecting accounts.

But since Musk took over, Twitter has drastically cut costs, laying off thousands of employees and requiring the company to cut infrastructure spending, such as cloud service fees, by US$1 billion (approximately 7.13 billion yuan).

On the other hand, a large number of AI companies scraping data on Twitter also caused the server to be overloaded.

Musk has expressed dissatisfaction with artificial intelligence technology companies such as the American Open Artificial Intelligence Research Center, the parent company of ChatGPT, using Twitter data for large language model training. He said hundreds or more organizations are "extremely aggressive" scraping Twitter data, impacting user experience.

To sum up, we can only take temporary measures such as "current limiting", and charge money if you want to see more posts.

However, another version of the reason given by Musk told everyone that "the reason behind it is heartwarming."

Shortly after the current restriction measures were launched, Musk retweeted a tweet from a high imitation account. The content of the tweet was:

“The reason I set the tweet view limit is because we’re all Twitter addicts and we should all get out and about. (So) I’m doing a good thing for the world. And, you’ve used up another view Chance."

After retweeting it, Musk tweeted, "Everyone should stay away from their phones. You need to go outside for more social activities and see more of your friends and family."

However, netizens were not impressed by this "adult version of anti-addiction" rhetoric, and they fled Twitter one after another while cursing Musk.

This directly led to its competitor Meta's newly launched application software Threads reaching 100 million registrations in just five days.

[theyoungturks]

Elon Musk announces temporary limits on the number of posts users can read per day on Twitter, with different restrictions based on account status, to address data scraping and system manipulation issues, following recent crashes and error messages experienced by users on the platform. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/twitter-temporary-limit-accounts_n_64a08c1fe4b065a315b959aa "Elon Musk announced on Saturday that Twitter is putting “temporary limits” on the number of posts users can read per day, with restrictions depending on account status. Accounts that have been “verified” on the platform will be allowed to read 8,000 posts per day, tweeted Musk, who owns the site. Unverified accounts will be limited to 800 posts per day. On the most restrictive end, newly registered unverified accounts will be limited to only 400 posts per day. Users could be locked out of their accounts if they exceed their limits, The Associated Press reported. The numbers reflect an amendment to limits that Musk set earlier Saturday, when he initially restricted the number of read posts per day to 6,000 for verified accounts, 600 for unverified accounts and 300 for newly registered unverified accounts. The announcement came after thousands of Twitter users reported issues when trying to access the app Saturday. According to CNBC, users received error messages that said “Rate limit exceeded” or “Cannot retrieve tweets” when trying to open Twitter or post content via its website and mobile app. This is not the first significant issue that users of the platform have faced in recent months. In February, Twitter crashed at least four times, followed by users receiving error messages when trying to load the site or view links in the app in March. Musk did not say how long the temporary limits would be enforced, but he said in a tweet Saturday that they were launched to “address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation.” On Friday, he also restricted access to Twitter content for those without an account, citing similar reasons." *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/join SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks TWITTER: ☞ http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/TheYoungTurks TWITCH: ☞ http://www.twitch.com/tyt 👕 Merch: http://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey ▶ https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt Watchlist with Jayar Jackson ▶ https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA #TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews 230703__BE01_Elon_Musk by The Young Turks

[noisynutcrusade]

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[jhapalitimes]

Elon Musk Imposes Daily Limits on Twitter Usage to Combat Data Scraping

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[renesf]

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[noisynutcrusade]

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