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X announces significant restrictions to free accounts; 50 posts and 200 replies per day (htxt.co.za)
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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

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Let me get this straight.....

Elon musk buys twitter for 44 BILLION dollars with the expectation that it will help be influencial towards societies general conversation.

So then he starts turning twitter into a right wing cesspool, and some users start leaving. Granted, not nearly enough. I think I read about 30% of the site has left, but thats still far too many who haven't left.

So despite his stupidity, he still has a sizeable platform. And his thought process is......"hey, you know those influencial voices we have on society? Lets limit those!"

So now they are reducing the amount of messages their users can put out into the world.

..........so what is even the goal here? Are they just doing things to stay in the news?

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 2 points 15 hours ago

It's because he's an idiot.

[–] mynameisbob@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

Stop trying to make sense of what he is doing. He is a common criminal fascist who is getting his nut just like sam gipity... Scammers don't need to make sense.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'd like to know how many of that 70% left are dead accounts.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

......at least 1.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Gotta extract more value from the reduced user base. Think Netflix. Plus, they gotta recoup AI “investment” costs, and the remaining people on Xitter are predominantly mouth breathing rubes.

Add that to foresight only as far as the next quarter and it’s the most logical recipe for success /s