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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
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[–] GnothiSeauton@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Don't you want users to be on the platform as long as possible to maximize ad revenue? If this was just to force people to pay for verification, why wouldn't they make that tier unlimited? I honestly can't even believe this is real.

[–] HjFUN@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

So a subscription is only 10x more valuable than a non-paying leech?

[–] smoll_pp_operator@vlemmy.net 8 points 1 year ago

Someone is desperate to monetize lurkers. That seems like a self-defeating strategy.

[–] skates@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

400 posts a day seems like a lot. Am I missing something here? Is a post a tweet?

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[–] Psycadet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Seems Elon wants to keep Twitter as his own personal echo chamber and having an exclusive club for like-minded folk willing to pay. Limiting posts is one thing, reading limitations is just crazy.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

In fairness, most Twitter users do need to touch grass...

[–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Touch grass, indeed

[–] Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

When you do the right thing for the wrong reason...

[–] wacken@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unverified and new unverified? Lol. What's exactly "new" here?

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

A new account, presumably.

[–] LazyCorvid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

If 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.

[–] Fer24@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

My question is , What is smoking this guy??

[–] Dlg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That is so cool. Elon is just trying to help.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Has he finally go completely insane? It feels like he wants to kill the platform for some reason

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He sees 'em lurkin'
He's hatin', patrolin'
Tryin' to catch them dirty

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