Anybody considering leaving Twitter?

[brewski]

As of about 15-20 minutes ago, Twitter appears to have implemented strict limits on how often free users can tweet. I triggered a "you have exceeded your daily allowed tweets" by writing an 8th tweet. Someone else told me she'd gotten the message while trying to write tweet #3 of the day.

But, being run by idiots as the company now is, there is currently an easy workaround: schedule your tweet for 1 minute in the future, and it will be readily accepted.

Interesting. I haven't encountered that yet, but I don't usually tweet more than 2-3 times a day. (And that may decrease if the current proprietor continues to show his lack of judgment and/or interest.)

-Bruce

[Karl Henning]

I've deactivated my account. Whether or not it has anything to do with the point @Brian  makes, I discovered today some 12 or so "failed to send tweet" drafts. I've never received any notification about tweet limits or anything. Plus, there has been a marked uptick of rubbish in my feed. I am just plain done with it.

[Todd]

As of about 15-20 minutes ago, Twitter appears to have implemented strict limits on how often free users can tweet. I triggered a "you have exceeded your daily allowed tweets" by writing an 8th tweet. Someone else told me she'd gotten the message while trying to write tweet #3 of the day.

It may be a glitch: Twitter was down for about 90 minutes Wednesday, telling users they'd hit their daily limit on posts  You should be back to being able to post up to 2400 tweets a day pretty quick.

[Brian]

It may be a glitch: Twitter was down for about 90 minutes Wednesday, telling users they'd hit their daily limit on posts  You should be back to being able to post up to 2400 tweets a day pretty quick.

Oh good! I'll write 2399 tweets tomorrow to celebrate.

[Todd]

Oh good! I'll write 2399 tweets tomorrow to celebrate.

The number of things people can do and the amount of content people can view, for free, is quite impressive.

[Karl Henning]

Oh good! I'll write 2399 tweets tomorrow to celebrate.

Progress (?) Report? 😉

[Harry]

I deactivated my Twitter account for obvious reasons!

[joachim]

For me, it's not complicated: I don't like what we call "social networks" with all the inconvenience they bring, so I'm not on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc.

[Brian]

Progress (?) Report? 😉

Oh shoot. Only three so far. This is going to be challenging!

[Karl Henning]

Oh shoot. Only three so far. This is going to be challenging!

I feel ya, bud. My dozen-ish "failed to send" lot represented a backlog of a few days, and is not to be accounted for by a day's outage. 

[brewski]

As someone on Twitter predicted (right after its new owner fired a lot of the tech people), the platform is likely to slowly decay—like a car with little bits and pieces falling off, until it finally stops. That may be what is happening.

It does make me a little sad, only because—especially for writers, journalists, and other news types—it has been a great information source. Lately it seems less valuable, though many good accounts remain.

-Bruce

[Spotted Horses]

Oh shoot. Only three so far. This is going to be challenging!

You've exceeded my lifetime total.

[Karl Henning]

As someone on Twitter predicted (right after its new owner fired a lot of the tech people), the platform is likely to slowly decay—like a car with little bits and pieces falling off, until it finally stops. That may be what is happening.

It does make me a little sad, only because—especially for writers, journalists, and other news types—it has been a great information source. Lately it seems less valuable, though many good accounts remain.

-Bruce

Yep, the wheels are falling off. Few people, perhaps, could have poisoned it so quickly as Musk. Pardon my mixed metaphor ....

[Spotted Horses]

I had the notion to log into twitter and I don't seem to be able to. I put in my registration email and password and click login, the result is I get an email saying I've logged in from an unrecognized account, but I'm not logged in, I still see the invitation to log in. Then it asks for my username instead of email, and again, I'm not logged in.

Brewski, I got an email notification from twitter in which you say all of a sudden you are not following anyone. Did your "follows" come back, or gone for good?

Seems like I won't be able to delete buy twitter account even if I want to...

[BWV 1080]

I only follow work-related stuff, only rarely comment and liberally block stuff that irritates me.  So far it still seems to be working OK, despite all the grumbling I see about blue checks. 

[brewski]

Brewski, I got an email notification from twitter in which you say all of a sudden you are not following anyone. Did your "follows" come back, or gone for good?

Yes, the follow count returned fairly quickly, maybe an hour later. But I'm not surprised to hear of other issues, like your login problem. I think there are too few staff on board at Twitter, and likely all being stretched thin, so there aren't people to jump in and fix things unless it's something major.

I dunno...I give the site maybe a year? It's hard to say, when the owner doesn't really seem invested in its success.

-Bruce

[Spotted Horses]

After waiting a half-hour, I tried again. First I saw the usual logged-in page appear briefly then disappear. One more try and I was logged in.

[Karl Henning]

Yes, the follow count returned fairly quickly, maybe an hour later. But I'm not surprised to hear of other issues, like your login problem. I think there are too few staff on board at Twitter, and likely all being stretched thin, so there aren't people to jump in and fix things unless it's something major.

I dunno...I give the site maybe a year? It's hard to say, when the owner doesn't really seem invested in its success.

-Bruce

Out of curiosity, I established a fresh account. So far, it's been reasonably easy to keep my feed toxin-free, which is an improvement on when I decided to delete my account.

[brewski]

Out of curiosity, I established a fresh account. So far, it's been reasonably easy to keep my feed toxin-free, which is an improvement on when I decided to delete my account.

Yes, keep us posted on how that tactic goes, especially if it continues to be a good decision. Who knows, the algorithm may favor new accounts. (I have given up trying to figure out what Musk wants/expects out of all of this.)

-Bruce

[eljr]

. (I have given up trying to figure out what Musk wants/expects out of all of this.)

-Bruce

He fucked up plain and simple. He knew it so he tried to pull out.
He is impulsive, emotional.