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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    2 years ago

    I had to look this up, couldn’t believe it. I’ve been pretty indifferent to Musk and Twitter…cause I’ve been always indifferent to Twitter, but this is crazy. As an example, my city’s police and bus services and others all use Twitter to send updates out. And I’m sure it’s the same for most places. And now they’ve essentially lost the ability to mass communicate with people, because they need to be able to reach everyone not just those with an account.

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      2 years ago

      The problem is with your city’s public servants. Relying on something like Twitter was a huge mistake.

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      2 years ago

      I used Twitter for all my local updates - from what’s happening at city hall to live traffic and weather updates.

      What’s up with CEO’s messing with social media companies. Huffman and Musk seem to enjoy ruining good things :(

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        It’s a symptom of the end of cheap money. It’s fine to not turn a profit when the economy is bullish and there’s money sloshing around everywhere, but at some stage you have to justify your existence, especially when advertisers stop buying ads, which has been the case for a while

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        What’s up with CEO’s messing with social media companies

        I have some theories but they all boil down to: They openly despise us commoners. Maybe this will prompt public services to take better care of their websites. It would be a welcoming change.