If these restrictions are significant, please seek therapy
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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I guess it's for customer care
50 posts a day!? If you hit 50 posts a day they should just ban you.
"significant restrictions"
I wonder if author is a twitter addict
https://xcancel.com/htxtafrica
At least as far as sharing every article on their site there, yes. Almost 50k tweets
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Don't a lot of people cover live events, city hearings, court room proceedings, war zones, etc?
No id say the vast majority of people do not do those things.
The point is to make bot farms create thousands of new accounts, driving up user accounts so they can trick investors and advertisers into thinking they still have a viable business.
This is enshitification, but it might be indirectly helping people who are on Twitter too much 😄
It doesn't do much to bot farms since they can keep spinning up more accounts
I would argue you cannot enshitify a service that was already shit. At this point this is more of a conshitidation.
I never thought I'd like using a word more than enshittification, but conshitidation takes the cake, I think.
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Why the fuck do people still use Twitter? Why would you pay to use social media? You're already the product, and now you're going to pay to be the fucking product? Are you stupid?
Have you met people lately?
Yes I have. It was not good.
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Mastodon doesn't have these limits.
Its so hard for me to believe that there are people out there for whom this will be an issue. Who are these people and what's wrong with them?
I consider myself quite active on Lemmy yet I still only average 12 comments and half a post per day. For all I know, Lemmy could have these same limits and I'd never even find out about it.
My thoughts also... who the hell posts more than 50 times a day... well that's twitter isn't probably paid for with our tax dollars anyway.
Pretty much anyone whose username ends in .eth or begins with a dollar sign or has a crypto address in their bio, but the vast majority of those people already pay for that blue checkmark anyway
Twitter being paid for with our tax dollars is the first explanation I've heard which sounds like a way this company could actually continue to function.
Twits. It's a social class and a diagnosis.
Oh, man, this will affect tens of people.
Does anyone actually reach those numbers? Is this a crackdown on bots?
Most people won't hit those numbers, and this that so should probably be paying for the service
this is what it really is. this seems very normal but its happening on a service owned by a shitty person so people make a big deal. this isnt enshiyification, as another commenter said because it doesnt affect a normal user.
Oh no! The nazi bar has set a drink limit! Guess I'll just have to continue not drinking there.
Oh, no!
Anyway...
That means I'll end each day having only 50 posts remaining...
Even when I had an account years ago there was not a single day I posted/replied/commented/shared more than 1-3 times a day (1-3 interactions a day)
It was never my thing really so it was easy to remove from my life.
Good, well make people get off Xwitter.
Fortunately, now I'm using mastodon
The upside of Twitter's downfall has been the absence of "look what so and so said in a tweet" headlines.
Let me get this straight.....
Elon musk buys twitter for 44 BILLION dollars with the expectation that it will help be influencial towards societies general conversation.
So then he starts turning twitter into a right wing cesspool, and some users start leaving. Granted, not nearly enough. I think I read about 30% of the site has left, but thats still far too many who haven't left.
So despite his stupidity, he still has a sizeable platform. And his thought process is......"hey, you know those influencial voices we have on society? Lets limit those!"
So now they are reducing the amount of messages their users can put out into the world.
..........so what is even the goal here? Are they just doing things to stay in the news?
It's because he's an idiot.
I'd like to know how many of that 70% left are dead accounts.
......at least 1.
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How could anyone limit themselves to 50 posts on apartheid-fan-boi.facist?
This is great! We need more enshittification on X!
But the bots will be less effective. I bet the API charges are going up soon.
Who cares. Piece of shit platform.
Since 2007 or so, I haven't seen a good use case for Xitter other than situations where mass messaging is necessary. Like a utility company announcing maintenance or outages. Why do people care so much about what other people think?
My dear mother taught me that opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one and they all stink.
Wise woman.
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I'm happy to say that the only time I've ever even been on twitter was to check down times on destiny 2 servers which at the time was literally the only place they'd post stuff like that... Nobody knows why... But then again it's bungie... So...
Another wave in the making.
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