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Twitter tells users to touch grass, adds new rule limiting how many tweets you can read per day (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Elon has responded to the criticism and is increasing the limits to a whopping:

Verified accounts: 8000 posts/day
Unverified accounts: 800 posts/day
New unverified accounts: 400 posts/day
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The US National Weather Service's local offices (which each have their own Twitter handle) post Twitter updates for every watch and warning (thunderstorm, tornado, hurricane, you name it) they send out. Imagine if you couldn't receive those updates or they couldn't post them.