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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
Elon is helping people to move towards Mastedon and Lemmy.
Thanks Elon.
Between him and Spez, they've done a great job. π
He is spezβ idol. So while Redditβs circles the drain and value decreases, theyβll will no doubt kill old.reddit on August 1st or something dumb, followed by a posting limit next year. π€£
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.
Third party app devs?
At this point if you still use twitter you are a moron.
Who reads more than 800 posts every day? I only ever get on twitter for juice drama every few months
Every tweet you scroll past counts as a read tweet. That probably cuts down the number you can actually read by quite a lot.
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. As an example, my city's police and bus services and others all use Twitter to send updates out. And I'm sure it's the same for most places. And now they've essentially lost the ability to mass communicate with people, because they need to be able to reach everyone not just those with an account.
Rabbits
The problem is with your city's public servants. Relying on something like Twitter was a huge mistake.
Until recently it was a great way to reach people in a way you can't really do with any other platform.
But this day and age breaking TV broadcast doesn't work for anyone under the age of 55 or so
Relying on a single service was a huge mistake. You can always diversify.
Sure, that's easy to say. But name another free, publicly available, instant mass message delivery system they could also use?
Telegram, RSS, Email....
Take your pick
Why'd you get downvoted when those are good alternatives?
All require the audience to be signed up. Twitter allowed users to broadcast. But yes, they are certainly functional alternatives.
Man, these big tech companies are really imploding lately, huh? Wonder what's next.
How true is the LLM data scraping threat?
Meta has shown that getting huge amounts of training data can lead to great results with a model that's much simpler than what openAI uses and it looks like they are taking a more open approach to LLMs because of that. Twitter has shitloads of possible training data, but it's Twitter so that data isn't great.
Elon is known to be afraid of AGIs becoming hostile, so that explains the decision.
I don't think it'll slow down AI development too much. There are new Llama-based models coming out every month that are better than the previous ones.
Reddit is a much better source of data and if they don't want to lose SEO, their data can still be gathered by scraping even after the API changes take effect.