Twitter Places Limits on Tweet Frequency, Impacting Business and Individual Accounts

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The company said it will now limit users to a maximum of 2,400 tweets a day, but users reported being prevented from tweeting far below that limit.

It’s not immediately clear how many tweets are allowed within the “semi-hourly intervals,” and individual and business accounts — including‘s Twitter account — received the error message when attempting to tweet more than once in at least an hour.

According to the Help Page, users hitting limits will be allowed to “try again in a few hours after the limit period has elapsed,” though it is not clear what exactly the time period is. On Wednesday afternoon, some Twitter users were able to find workarounds by scheduling tweets in advance to circumvent the “daily limit” error.

Other limits outlined in the Help Page site include a maximum of 500 direct messages per day and a follow limit of 400 accounts per day, though additional site rules around “aggressive following behavior” may impact that number for individuals. Twitter is also capping the total number an individual user can follow to 5,000, and attempts to follow more accounts will be “limited by account-specific ratios,” the site said.

Twitter, which no longer has a formal communications team, did not immediately respond to a request for clarification. The Help Page site said the limits are meant to “alleviate some of the strain on the behind-the-scenes part of Twitter and reduce downtime and error pages.”

 

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Twitter is now the Titanic going down. All because of the feckless leader.

Less ad revenue for elonmusk

Limit of 2400 tweets per day is 100 tweets per hour i.e. more than 1.5 tweets per minute. This only affects bots.

I can understand that. Velocity limits are common. And you can get whitelisted. But you have to be very careful about how you implement it. I'd definitely have a limit on new accounts but woukd have a far higher limit on accounts older than 6 months old with posting history.

I can't even follow people anymore 🚮🚮🚮

Is this the same as the tweets person 1) I like strawberry orange and apple. Person 2) WHY do you hate bananas? Are you going to go on strikes to be a haters on bananas?

WAM

So apparently 'Free Speech' has its limits!

lol

So much for free speech

These limits were already in place before today. Some of them go back to 2008. It's just that today, all the rate limiting got completely broken, and as of this tweet, some of it (ex: ability to follow) still is broken.

It's what Elon wants to have just Republicans on tweeter but he needs the left to make money without the left tweeter will disappear wheres the truth Elon

Twitter used to implement a limit in the past. People used to say “I went OT”

.Elonmusk what happened to the free speech?

That's: 100 tweets per hour. 1.66 tweets per minute.

Fun police

Please start with limiting boebert, greene, kennedy, mcdaniel, jordan and all the other abusers.

SCHEMEdeem

0xchromuh maybe they fired too many after all?

Backstorymom1 I am so sick of Eloon Mush.

coming soon: a limit on how many tweets you can read in a day

The 2,400 limit has existed for a long time...

Yeah, this is some bullshit. I have fewer than 10 tweets today and I've already been limited.

That’s obv some glitches going on with the implementation of this because I haven’t followed anyone new today and when I tried to follow one new person it said I’d reached my limit. I hit the link that said to find out more and it led me to a broken page.

This free speech is going well....

AmberJaeee lmaooo

shivvyroys

He is really bad at this....I mean, who spends $44 billion or whatever tf it was to intentionally sink this platform?

esse homem é uma pr*ga

Why would they do that?

I tweeted about 10 times today and got that restriction...smh

what the hell

Umm... 2400 tweet limit is not new. Good job fact checking. May I introduce you to the Wayback Machine?

If people cant tweet whenever they want literally what is the point of this app anymore ?

Elon Musk is a joke

Crashing twitter one update after another.

Who has time for 2400 tweets a day!😭 there is a world out there!

And if you're having problems with posting Twitter's aware and working on it .

The Super Bowl is gonna be very interesting this Sunday on Twitter lol.

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