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X announces significant restrictions to free accounts; 50 posts and 200 replies per day (htxt.co.za)
submitted 18 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.
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[–] DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world 70 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

50 posts a day!? If you hit 50 posts a day they should just ban you.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

Don't a lot of people cover live events, city hearings, court room proceedings, war zones, etc?

[–] nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 11 points 12 hours ago

The point is to make bot farms create thousands of new accounts, driving up user accounts so they can trick investors and advertisers into thinking they still have a viable business.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"significant restrictions"

I wonder if author is a twitter addict

[–] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

https://xcancel.com/htxtafrica

At least as far as sharing every article on their site there, yes. Almost 50k tweets

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

Eh that doesn't count. It's probably automated anyway.