Twitter tells users to touch grass, adds new rule limiting how many tweets you can read per day

https://lemmy.world/post/918137

Twitter tells users to touch grass, adds new rule limiting how many tweets you can read per day - Lemmy.world

Elon has responded to the criticism and is increasing the limits to a whopping: Verified accounts: 8000 posts/day Unverified accounts: 800 posts/day New unverified accounts: 400 posts/day

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