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ItsBarbieBitchhhh · 01/07/2023 21:48

Any other Twitter users about? Elon Musk has completely ruined that app. I genuinely don’t understand how he thought that was a good idea!

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MyEyesHurt · 01/07/2023 22:00

What is rate limit?

RoseAndRose · 01/07/2023 22:04

MyEyesHurt · 01/07/2023 22:00

What is rate limit?

It's a limit on the number of tweets you can read in any 24 hours

At least I hope it's open/read, given how Twitter is (at the most polite description) erratic now about what it serves up to you (aka tides of crap)

Kedece2410 · 01/07/2023 22:06

Is it not something like 600 tweets though. That's a lot of tweets

theGooHasGone · 01/07/2023 22:07

Twitter was hot garbage long before he bought it.

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ItsBarbieBitchhhh · 01/07/2023 22:08

You can only see a set amount of tweets within 24 hours. Once you’ve seen your limit, you essentially can’t use Twitter anymore.

They’re just trying to get people to buy Twitter Blue and have access to more tweets. It’s all a bit ridiculous

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ItsBarbieBitchhhh · 01/07/2023 22:10

Kedece2410 · 01/07/2023 22:06

Is it not something like 600 tweets though. That's a lot of tweets

It sounds like a lot but when you’re scrolling, scrolling and scrolling you end up passing way more than 600 tweets. If you follow 100 people you’re basically fucked. People tweet/quote tweet and reply all throughout the day so it just adds to your TL

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SaturdayGiraffe · 01/07/2023 22:10

It’s OK you can just close the app for a while and do something else.

Brintons · 01/07/2023 22:11

I cant view any tweets
I get the rate limited message straight away.

DahliaMacNamara · 01/07/2023 22:11

The limit includes adverts, presumably. What a strange business model, to ensure that advertisers don't get the reach they've paid for.

greencheetah · 01/07/2023 22:12

Why would anyone want to read more than 600 tweets a day?

If that’s job related, you need the blue tick thingy.

If not, and that’s your normal SM use, I think Elon has just done a big favour to a few people.

Curlywurlys98 · 01/07/2023 22:12

If you click on to the first post you see and that tweet has say 600 comments, then you have used up your 600 even if you don't read them!

tenterden · 01/07/2023 22:13

SaturdayGiraffe · 01/07/2023 22:10

It’s OK you can just close the app for a while and do something else.

Well quite!

600 seems really excessive.

cardibach · 01/07/2023 22:15

greencheetah · 01/07/2023 22:12

Why would anyone want to read more than 600 tweets a day?

If that’s job related, you need the blue tick thingy.

If not, and that’s your normal SM use, I think Elon has just done a big favour to a few people.

It includes all the replies to any tweet you click on…but anyway a tweet takes…what? 5 secs to read - so 600 would be less than an hour if none has any replies. A few scrolling sessions gets you there easily.

WhatADrabCarpet · 01/07/2023 22:19

600 isn't excessive.

If you look at one tweet eg France's situation, just a quick scroll through and you've already reached a substantial amount.

I can't view anything now.

I follow a few artists , photographers and wildlife enthusiasts.

I'll only look at a few tweets but the fact that I e scrolled past so many tweets means that I can see barely anything.

Bonkers.

DahliaMacNamara · 01/07/2023 22:20

greencheetah · 01/07/2023 22:12

Why would anyone want to read more than 600 tweets a day?

If that’s job related, you need the blue tick thingy.

If not, and that’s your normal SM use, I think Elon has just done a big favour to a few people.

You don't have to read them all. I don't follow more than a few hundred people. If I leave the site for an hour, there are typically 100 unread tweets to load on a normal day. I rarely get around to catching up with them all. 600 is only a fraction of the tweets I'd have in my feed in 24 hours, depending on events and engagement with other users.

JudgeAnderson · 01/07/2023 22:21

I just deactived my account, it's bollocks. It's all to the good, I can have a bit of a dopamine detox and free up some time to do something a bit more productive. It is a bit frustrating when you're trying to follow a major unfolding event but I'll live.

Maribu · 01/07/2023 22:23

ItsBarbieBitchhhh · 01/07/2023 22:10

It sounds like a lot but when you’re scrolling, scrolling and scrolling you end up passing way more than 600 tweets. If you follow 100 people you’re basically fucked. People tweet/quote tweet and reply all throughout the day so it just adds to your TL

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Yep, reached limit within a few minutes!

YukoandHiro · 01/07/2023 22:24

It is driving me NUTS.

But I'm not paying that twat a penny. Even though it's going to fuck up my work quite a lot if he doesn't lift it by Monday.

WhatADrabCarpet · 01/07/2023 22:24

If MN were to adopt this policy... no one would be able to see most threads and only be able to comment on a couple.

We wouldn't be able to trawl through classic threads.

YukoandHiro · 01/07/2023 22:27

greencheetah · 01/07/2023 22:12

Why would anyone want to read more than 600 tweets a day?

If that’s job related, you need the blue tick thingy.

If not, and that’s your normal SM use, I think Elon has just done a big favour to a few people.

You can see 600 posts within seconds of logging on! I don't think you use Twitter much....!

Yes I do use it for work but I'm not paying. Partly because to make it valuable at all it would have to be unlimited posts a day not just 6k, which old also eat by about 10am!

sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea · 01/07/2023 22:28

It depends who you're following too. There's one woman I'm going to have to mute because I swear to god she spends her entire day just RTing everything on her timeline - most of which is bollocks, but she follows about 3k people.
I use it for news, and chatting with friends. Not to mention that the advert spamming has gone mad over the last few weeks, so probably 25% of the tweets I saw today were adverts that were of no interest to me.

I probably only engage with about 5% of the tweets on my timeline, but they're people I care about - the rest I just scroll past. Now the tweets I'd happily ignore will take me over my limit, so I'll miss a lot of stuff.

I thought the whole point of social media was about engagement...

User13985094 · 01/07/2023 22:28

It's not a lot as you don't actually read them all, they are just there.

SwedishEdith · 01/07/2023 22:32

It pisses me off so much how that cunt has destroyed Twitter. Thé theory is that Twitter uses Google cloud storage and hasn't paid its bill due end of June.

BarbaraofSeville · 01/07/2023 22:36

WhatADrabCarpet · 01/07/2023 22:24

If MN were to adopt this policy... no one would be able to see most threads and only be able to comment on a couple.

We wouldn't be able to trawl through classic threads.

Exactly. I'm not on Twitter but I'm assuming that 'a tweet' is like a single post on MN, where you load one thread and you've seen 100 posts whether you read them or not. So you load a few threads in a few minutes and that's you done for the day.

I suppose if you were looking to limit your time on twitter etc and were struggling with this, it would be a really easy way of banning yourself from it....

WeWereInParis · 01/07/2023 22:42

It includes all the replies to any tweet you click on

Does it? I've definitely done more than 600 by that measure (and to check, I just deliberately clicked on a few with hundreds of replies) and I can still load new tweets.

Is it a bit glitchy?