EPN Private Compilation – “I bought Twitter because it is important for the future of civilization to have a common digital town square where a wide range of beliefs can be discussed in a healthy and non-violent way”
These words belong to Elon Musk himself.
This is how the famous billionaire explained his reason for buying Twitter.
In one of his first tweets after the purchase, he said “The bird is freed”.
He also entered the center of Twitter with a sink in his hand.
While all this was going on, who would have guessed that one day the decision to impose temporary “use limits” on Twitter would have to be made…
THE WORLD IS TALKING ABOUT THIS: USAGE LIMITS INSTALLED ON TWITTER
It all started when some users encountered the “limit” warning.
Many users thought the problem was temporary.
The statement from Musk, the owner of Twitter, began to be curious.
Musk, on the other hand, made the statement that will make the term “use limit” the topic of conversation with Twitter users around the world:
“We have implemented temporary limits to address excessive levels of data scraping and system manipulation.
• Verified accounts 6000 tweets per day,
• Unverified accounts 600 tweets per day,
• New and unverified accounts will be able to view 300 tweets per day.”
This caused great controversy among Twitter users.
While warnings about the usage limit exceeded appeared before the users, the term usage limit suddenly became the most trending term on Twitter.
But Musk’s statement was not limited to this.
After the controversial edit, Musk increased the ‘limits’ to 8000, 800 and 400 respectively.
Meanwhile, another platform started to be mentioned among Twitter users: Bluesky…
INTENSIVE ATTENTION TO BLUESKY
Bluesky is a platform seen as an alternative to Twitter, backed by Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey.
Bluesky is described as a decentralized social network.
However, an invitation is required to register with Bluesky.
While there were discussions about Twitter, it was seen that many users were trying to get a Bluesky invitation through many social media platforms, including Twitter.
Meanwhile, an interesting development took place one after another.
The first of these was this: Bluesky has temporarily stopped registrations due to the large number of people participating.
The other is: A post from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, following the decision to impose usage limits.
Supporting Bluesky, Dorsey shared a photo of green grass on Twitter.
This post has been interpreted as a posting.
Elon Musk also retweeted the post in question.
Musk’s shares became remarkable.
For example, a parody account using his name said, “I set a view limit because we’re all Twitter addicts and need to get out. I’m doing something good for the world here.” He retweeted a tweet that included the statements.
What the famous billionaire wanted to tell in another post was extremely remarkable:
“You wake up from a deep trance,
get away from the phone
To see your friends and family”
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ALLEGED
There are those who claim that the reason behind Twitter’s usage limits is to increase interest in Twitter Blue subscription.
However, according to the claim, the main reason is thought to be artificial intelligence systems.
Well what does it mean?
Allegedly, almost every company that makes artificial intelligence, from startups to the largest companies in the world, is said to be digging huge amounts of data.
Twitter, on the other hand, is a huge data source that can be used to train AI, and it’s also free.
Musk is also said to blame companies trying to get data for AI training of language models.
FINAL STATUS…
Here is the latest situation:
As part of the ‘temporary’ usage limits, Twitter imposes a limit of 10,000 for verified accounts, 1000 for unverified accounts, and 500 for new members.
Because after this sharing, Elon Musk made another post showing that the tweet view limit was increased to 10,000 for verified accounts, 1000 for unverified accounts, and 500 for new members.
Implying that these limits are ‘temporary’ creates an expectation for users who want Twitter to return to normal.