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.
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.