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.
Multiple reasons, but I’d be lying if I claimed it’s not partly out of spite for all the people who get hilariously angry about it. I’m also subscribed to SuperGrok.
Imagine getting angry because other people do things you don’t like, even though it doesn’t affect you in any way whatsoever. Stop hitting yourself.
Nope, doesn’t affect me at all… oh, wait, I can no longer afford a platter drive or ssd to expand storage, I can no longer afford ram, cpus, soon to be pcbs. Nope, doesn’t affect anyone anywhere at all.
Recently bought a 1tb m.2 for a friend, it cost more than the 2tb I bought in december
Well people using twitter surely aren’t to blame for that which is what I was responding to here.
People using LLMs do drive up the demand for computer components, I’ll give you that, though even there it’s a bit more nuanced than that.
You: “I turned fascist just to spite people who gets hilariously angry about fascism”.
That same logic makes you a communist then. And me a communist fascist I guess? Go figure… Difficult to keep up with the insane troll logic you’re displaying here.