lol you won't even be able to read viral tweet threads or the replies. The people paying to have their replies boosted are going to looooove this.

The best part is that all those "the site functions fine after layoffs!" morons won't realize that it's precisely because of those cuts that the service can no longer handle read traffic and they have to do this.

And the best part is that tracking this still requires write traffic for read status, so he's traded cheap reads for expensive writes.

@rodhilton This decision is truly amazing. Not in a good way… basically makes the website un-useable for many non-paying users. What is going on over there??

@andyb @rodhilton it would only take an hour or so to view 6000 tweets manually, and if they are forcing "by algorithm" instead of "latest tweets" now it's not even going to be the 6000 you want.

So even if you're paying, it's unusable.