NevermindNoMindTwitter tells users to touch grass, adds new rule limiting how many tweets you can read per day
Nothing like telling someone they can’t use your product. I can only imagine what the advertisers are thinking.
For ease of math, let’s say you see one ad for every ten tweets, this effectively limits a single users ad impressions to 80 day. That is not something advertisers would have expected when they dropped dollars onto the platform. As an advertiser, you also can’t be assured going forward that Musk isnt going to randomly implement some other major change that effects your business.
I’m guessing the rational here is fighting against scrapers harvesting tweets for AI. Whether this is effective on that front, and whether worsening the user experience is a worthwhile tradeoff, I don’t know. But it’s smart business to at least give people, users and advertisers a heads up first. It sounds like Musk implemented this change Saturday morning and didn’t announce it until he tweeted about it hours later.
thehatfoxThis doesn’t do much to stop scrapers though. If accounts have a limited number of tweet views, the scrapers just create more accounts. Scrapers are gonna scrape, especially is there is some of that sweet AI money to be had. Trying to stop that is just another endless cat and mouse like fighting ad blocking or piracy.
Meanwhile this could do a lot to reduce user engagement, and thus hurt ad revenue even more. The panic over AI data doesn’t seem worth that. Perhaps there is another explanation for this. Or maybe this is just more tech company craziness, it sure seems to be catching at the moment.
“I can’t wait for my brand to be associated with a site that was a festering sore to begin with, and is now run by the world’s most inflamed asshole and unstable to boot.”
When you say it like that I’m not sure how they resist.
feilenMy understanding is that there’s very few left?
NausiyanIt seems I am moving to Lemmy just in time then.
OptimusPrimeElon is helping people to move towards Mastedon and Lemmy.
Thanks Elon.
Between him and Spez, they’ve done a great job. 😂
TheGoldenGodHe is spez’ idol. So while Reddit’s circles the drain and value decreases, they’ll will no doubt kill old.reddit on August 1st or something dumb, followed by a posting limit next year. 🤣
Spez didn’t borrow billions of dollars he has to pay back with interest though so he won’t need to fire almost all his engineers.
He did however send all the most talented developers working under the platform to his biggest competitor so that wasn’t smart.
Think people will end up on BlueSky over mastodon.
Bluesky probably will be the winner; but it may be an activity pub site
halvait’s not, for better or worse
And Bluesky, which honestly has proven a pretty good alternative for Twitter.
What are the big differences between mastodon and blue sky?
What a 🤡
Man, these big tech companies are really imploding lately, huh? Wonder what’s next.
VaggumonAt this point if you still use twitter you are a moron.
dylcarincIt’s been fascinating to watch Elon test how much Twitter’s user base will tolerate.
Also fascinating that there are people that still use Twitter
It’s funny to me how a lot of twitter posters said they were gonna go to mastodon, but quickly went back when they realized they weren’t getting the same engagement.
KokeshHas he finally go completely insane? It feels like he wants to kill the platform for some reason
Someone is desperate to monetize lurkers. That seems like a self-defeating strategy.
My question is , What is smoking this guy??
gonNow, this is ridiculous, of course. However, you shouldn’t be reading more than 600 tweets a day. I mean, I don’t think I’ve read 600 tweets in my whole LIFE!!
Anyways, mastodon.world.
He sees 'em lurkin'
He's hatin', patrolin'
Tryin' to catch them dirty
He's hatin', patrolin'
Tryin' to catch them dirty
I had to look this up, couldn’t believe it. I’ve been pretty indifferent to Musk and Twitter…cause I’ve been always indifferent to Twitter, but this is crazy. My city’s police and bus services and others all use Twitter to send updates out. And now they’ve essentially lost that, because they need to be able to reach everyone not just people with an account.
You can’t rely on a private corporation to be your mouthpiece. That’s exactly why privatizing stuff doesn’t work and this is a clear example. Billionaires/corporations cannot operate on “good faith.” Cities or governments need to either switch to the Fediverse or something else. But this isn’t going to work when you have deranged billionaires buying things so they can try to end democracies.
🅵🅴🅳🅴🆁🅰🅻🅰🅻🅸🅴🅽🆂🅼🆄🅶🅶🅻🅴🆁Kinda stupid that a local government funded institution relies on a service from a private company to send out notifications
Unverified and new unverified? Lol. What’s exactly “new” here?
LazyCorvidIf you have 800 posts available and you read a post every 10 seconds, then you can only spend 2,2 hours per day on the site before you can’t see new posts.
Twitter basically forces its users to verify their accounts to use the site in a normal way. That will definitly backfire.