Elon Musk said verified accounts would be limited to reading 6,000 posts per day while unverified users will be limited to 600.

  • ayyndrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    1 year ago

    I can’t even think of a financial or business reason for him to do this that makes sense, he must just want to run Twitter into the ground

    • httpjames@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Elon claims bots are grossly scraping the platform with logged in accounts. Sure, this harsh limit might reduce scraping, but legitimate users are being blocked

    • ChrisLicht@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Same reason as Huffmann killing 3rd party apps: these sad little boys are mad that AÍ startups are training models on user-generated content.

    • fiat_lux@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think he’s pretty willing for it to be his personal toy until it breaks down completely. It’s not like he needs to worry about being personally accountable, he can afford it.

      I suspect when it does finally die though, he will miss the hourly hit of virtual cocksucking he gets from his fans. ChatGPT just doesn’t hit the same.