X announces significant restrictions to free accounts - Hypertext
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X is pushing more users to get verified by announcing new restrictions in terms of daily post and reply limits for free accounts.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1135683/x-announces-significant-restrictions-to-free-accounts-50-posts-and-200-replies-per-day

  • Direct Messages (daily): The limit is 500 messages sent per day.
  • Posts: 50 original posts and 200 replies per day for unverified accounts. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals.
  • Changes to account email: 4 per hour.
  • Following (daily): The technical follow limit is 400 per day. Please note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior.
  • Following (account-based): Once an account is following 5,000 other accounts, additional follow attempts are limited by account-specific ratios.
  • dmtalon@infosec.pubEnglish
    8·
    17 hours ago

    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.