Elon Musk Limits Twitter

Twitter Blue; It has opened the doors of an internet world where social media platforms, which were born completely free, are now used for a fee. Having an approved account in Turkey for 150 TL per month and users who get a blue tick next to their name; they can have advantages such as long tweeting, tweet editing, sharing high resolution and long-term videos, and obtaining higher interaction.

However, the feature, or rather the update, announced by Elon Musk on July 1, 2023; to the reactions of all users on the platform and even possible mass migrations. can be effective enough to cause

Those who are not Twitter Blue members for a temporary period, that is, those who do not pay and buy blue ticks, will use Twitter on a limited basis:

‘We have implemented these temporary limits to contain excessive data collection and system manipulation’

• Verified accounts up to 6000 posts per day,
• Unverified accounts up to 600 posts per day,
• Newly opened unverified accounts can read a maximum of 300 posts.’

Some time after this announcement, Musk announced that the limits will soon be increased to 800 for unconfirmed users, 8000 for verified users, and 400 for new accounts:

As can be expected, Twitter’s agenda turned upside down after Elon Musk’s statement, and users began to discuss the reasons for this measure. Some users see that the number of posts in questiona includes replies to a tweet Although they ask, no clear statement has been made about the subject yet.

Researcher Tuğrulcan Elmas explained the reason for Elon Musk’s restriction decision on Twitter as follows:

The information conveyed by Elmas, a social media researcher at Bloomington University; It shows that Elon Musk is implementing this as a precaution. However, the threat appears to be so great that Twitter will take a snap decision without considering its ad revenues. However, this precaution may also be an unevaluated decision that comes out of Musk’s two lips, who constantly emphasizes that he does not act with financial expectations in similar situations.

Elon Musk, who wanted to read the tweets about the limitation, was stuck on the limit:

If you exceed the usage limit on Twitter, when you want to view the details of a tweet, the following message will appear:

At this stage, if you are using Twitter via a browser, the tweet detail can be loaded when you refresh the page. However, instead of the replies to the tweet, they were greeted with the same warning and said, ‘There was a problem. Try reinstalling’ message greets you.

If you enter a profile if you exceed the limit, you cannot see any tweets of the account, even if you have notifications turned on:

Even if you want to go to your own profile and see your own tweets, you are stuck at the limit:

If you want to open a tweet in an incognito tab without logging in, you cannot view anything:

What does ‘high data collection’ or ‘system manipulation’, which Elon Musk explained as the reason, mean?

Twitter is not just a platform where users tweet and view tweets. The data formed on the platform are interpreted by various software. intense troll campaigns or it can be used for manipulations. For this reason, you can see content on Twitter that you are not interested in, and you can encounter fake agendas. In addition, ChatGPT-based artificial intelligence tools, one of the latest trends, were used for this purpose.

However, in order to prevent them, Twitter restricts all users, albeit temporarily. a step against the nature of social media can be evaluated as Perhaps, Musk and his Twitter team may be preparing to test for natural reasons for the new features they will bring, just like in the early days of Twitter Blue, and to bring these limits officially and indefinitely, according to the results. But all this is just reasoning and conjecture. We will keep you informed as developments occur.