Elon Musk has throttled the number of posts that Twitter users can see per day to tackle issues with the platform, causing mass desertions and spikes in signups for competitors 🖋️ stokel
Whether Twitter’s advertisers will be happy that users might not encounter their posts if they hit their limit seems not to have been considered in the knee-jerk move., saw such significant spikes in new users following Mr Musk’s declaration that they had to temporarily stop accepting new applicants.
“The problem with Musk’s approach is he isn’t offering a premium Twitter platform,” said Noah Giansiracusa of Bentley University. “He’s offering premium access to a decaying and increasingly dysfunctional platform that’s becoming overrun by obnoxious spammy accounts and self-promotion.” Twitter lives or dies on its ability to show users content. And this weekend’s decisions have hamstrung that. But it’s necessary, says Mr Musk, to tackle a swarm of data scrapers.idiosyncratic Twitter bossYoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of safety, said it “doesn’t pass the sniff test that scraping all of a sudden created such dramatic performance problems,” adding that scraping “was the open secret of Twitter data access” and “it was fine”.
That the change occurred on 1 July – when old monthly contracts end and new ones begin – seemed notable. Suspicions were fuelled by, from Twitter insiders, that the company has withheld payments for key infrastructure services like the hosting that keeps the platform online. It would make sense, the sceptics’ theory goes, for Mr Musk to limit the number of tweets users can see if one of those service providers has pulled the plug over non-payment.
However, Twitter reportedly restarted paying for hosting in late June. Twitter’s press office did not respond to questions for this story, automatically responding with a poop emoji.
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