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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, he tweeted, while unverified accounts are limited to just 600. New unverified accounts are at 300 posts a day.

This is absolute amateur hour. Why are people still trying to use Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

600 posts per day is damn nothing, yikes

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Especially considering the way twitter counts a “view” is if the tweet shows up in your app’s viewport, at all. So simply scrolling through the timeline consumes “views” - you could run up against this limit in 10-15 minutes of scrolling.

It’s incredibly stupid.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is what I was wondering. I don't use Twitter so 600 sounds like a lot but I was wondering how much it actually was. Someone else said they blew through it in like 15 minutes

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

15 minutes if you actually read the tweets, but when this "reading limit" is actually "impression limit", and Twitter counts an impression as a tweet just loading on your feed (I didn't know this). About 2 minutes of continuous scrolling gets you rate limited.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

And sounds like it's implemented in a api-request=view way. I'm not sure how much requests the JS makes per view but im sure it's more than one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Who the fuck posts 300 tweets a day?

Edit: Nvm, I apparantly can't read lol

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

No, you misunderstand - the limit is on viewing tweets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

If it's per account, couldn't someone that's just absurdly dedicated to using Twitter for some reason make Alts to follow different groups of people anyway?