Another Angry Womanlol so the deal with twitter being down is that accounts are now limited to viewing 600 tweets per day, and for just $8 that can be increased to... seeing 6000 a day. this is the single greatest wellness setting any social media platform has ever introduced
in my heyday I could easily *make* 600 tweets a day, probably even 6000
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Charlie Stross@stavvers Same. Also I followed enough folks that I'd typically get 1000 tweets coming in overnight while I was asleep. I'd be rate-limited before I finished my first cup of morning tea!
Gjalt-Jorn Peters@stavvers Ahhh, to be young 😬
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)@stavvers Not more than 4800. Ask me how I know.
(There‘s a reason I have a separate Twitter jail account - it was for every time I ran into their rate limit of 100 per 30 minutes. Back when the rate limit applied to tweeting not reading tweets.)
Jesse@stavvers We need this here
Peeble streamer on Doop 🟥🟨@stavvers to viewing 600 a day, fuck, imagine being such a prick you limit ppl simply viewing tweets.
zee zom@Wildheart_Baby @stavvers his advertisers must be chuffed to bits.
@Wildheart_Baby @fnafilms I legit block anything with a tick in the tl, it's very satisfying
@Wildheart_Baby I barely use it and I got sent to twitter jail for merely casually scrolling the tl briefly, simply magnificent levels of entirely fucking it
@stavvers looking forward to the next way in which it becomes utterly unusable.
lucas 🎺@Wildheart_Baby @stavvers I hit 10 toot-views just by clicking on this post and seeing the responses.
This morning I tried to search Twitter for updates on the NHL Trade Deadline (a popular topic today) and hit 600 tweet views in SECONDS just by loading the search results.
@theLUCASTDS @stavvers oh shit, that's incredibly useful in a site.
@Wildheart_Baby @stavvers the most insane thing about it is that, for trending topics like that, media companies have moved almost all their coverage to Twitter. So good luck finding any analysis on this breaking topic even on a sports networks website. They link to Twitter, which isn’t working
Angela Glansbury 🚽@stavvers
no elon, dig upwards, lmao 😸
no elon, dig upwards, lmao 😸
DⒶmn MⒶollennial Hannah@stavvers it's an amazing move from Melon, I have to say.
Marieke@stavvers He's... 🙄
Hugo Mills@stavvers If I don't view any tweets at all, can I get paid for that?
AricieYep killing the facto the app. And it’s ridiculous even 6000 read tweet isn’t that much.
play in progress@stavvers it is so so funny! I mean I thought I don't even care anymore at this point, but daaaaaaamn, that amuses even me.
Minty@stavvers
Damn, I sometimes view 600 posts on Shitter in a couple of hours
Damn, I sometimes view 600 posts on Shitter in a couple of hours
Rev. GothAlice@stavvers I know, right?! I've joked about sending him a Mastodon cake to thank him for his efforts, but no, I'm now serious about this idea.
I've also previously joked that if this is what he does to Twitter, he'll earn a Nobel and eternal gratitude if Facebook is next on his hit list.
But he's not that rich.
He only plays rich on TV.
Dave@stavvers The funny thing is... in ~2012, you could hit a rate limit as an average power user of Twitter, just by reading and interacting. Back then, I would've paid for increasing the rate limit.
Not anymore.
Back then, Twitter was healthy (in my eyes), but somehow didn't want the money from the people who would've paid for it.
zeno's paradox speedrunner@stavvers what's really funny is this:
oringal post is unknown, but looks like it's from masto
Xymon@stavvers strangely enough, the accounts that repost porno clips are still viewable without limit. Allegedly.
Kenneth B 🤘@stavvers I think those limits are bullshit numbers. No evidence that people are reaching their limits. It seems that what is happening is that overall usage is being throttled.
Colorblind Cowboy@stavvers My girlfriend could only view about five tweets before her “limit” was exceeded. No, she is not Blue.
Andi