What is Twitter rate limit exceeded?
As of July 3, Reuters: The number of tweets that users can view each day has been temporarily limited by Elon Musk’s Twitter, a move that has prompted some criticism and may harm the social network’s efforts to draw advertisers.
The limit is the newest correction made by Twitter, which Musk purchased for $44 billion last year. It was implemented to “address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation”.
What does the most recent update mean, and what are some Twitter alternatives?
How do the modifications affect users?
Tweets cannot be viewed by those who are not logged into the platform. Verified accounts can now read 6,000 posts each day, compared to 600 for unverified accounts and 300 for newly created unverified accounts. Users will then see a notification that reads “rate limit exceeded” after that.
That cap will “soon” rise to 10,000 for verified accounts, 1,000 for unconfirmed accounts, and 500 for new unverified accounts, according to Musk.
He has been working to improve the all-new Twitter verified service’s appeal. Musk added tiers like gray, blue, and golden badges and made Twitter verified — unique badges that were previously awarded to important profiles — a paid membership.
Musk set the limit for what reason?
Musk stated that the restrictions will make it more difficult for practically everyone, including IT behemoths, startups, and AI businesses, to scrape enormous amounts of data from Twitter.
He wrote in a tweet, “It is quite galling to have to get big numbers of servers online on an urgent basis only to facilitate some AI startup’s absurd value.
Generic AI solutions like ChatGPT use technology that is educated on vast amounts of internet-sourced data to create everything from poems to images.
What do users have to say?
Many Twitter users voiced their complaints, with the hashtags “#TwitterDown” and “RIP Twitter” rising over the past few days.
Due to their daily reliance on evaluating thousands of tweets, informational agencies, journalists, and monitoring services are particularly affected.
The National Weather Service advised subscribers to call its office lines instead of tweeting about severe weather and related damage because it might not be able to view those reports.
What other options are there?
The primary alternatives are websites that resemble Twitter, such as Bluesky and Mastodon. Soon after Musk announced the limits, they experienced a spike in users and activity.
Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter, launched Bluesky, which is now in beta mode, and reported “record high traffic” on Saturday. As a result, Bluesky stated it was temporarily stopping new sign-ups.
On that day, Mastodon’s active user base increased by 110,000, according to CEO Eugen Rochko, the site’s developer.