As a non Twitter user… reading 300/600 tweets a day seems like more than plenty. I mean the times I’ve poke around I see what maybe 60 or so tweets then move on to browsing another platform.
And me not knowing any better this somewhat seems to make sense if you have bots that are scraping all the data for intelligence to use for advertising or AI development etc.
Shouldn’t those bots have to pay since they are making money off data and let the individual users keep a free account?
The thing is that it wasn’t based on tweets but background API calls, and some people were hitting that limit just by logging in or scrolling for 5 minutes.
It also doesn’t make sense because it’s easy to get around this by creating new bots. They’re only really hurting user engagement.
As a non Twitter user… reading 300/600 tweets a day seems like more than plenty. I mean the times I’ve poke around I see what maybe 60 or so tweets then move on to browsing another platform.
And me not knowing any better this somewhat seems to make sense if you have bots that are scraping all the data for intelligence to use for advertising or AI development etc.
Shouldn’t those bots have to pay since they are making money off data and let the individual users keep a free account?
The thing is that it wasn’t based on tweets but background API calls, and some people were hitting that limit just by logging in or scrolling for 5 minutes.
It also doesn’t make sense because it’s easy to get around this by creating new bots. They’re only really hurting user engagement.
It’s not tweets you read. It’s tweets your web browser / app reads.
Your web browser goes through 600 tweets in just 2 minutes of scrolling, maybe less.
That seems like something that should have been found during initial testing. Unless of course, they didn’t test at all.
Plus let’s be real anyone with a decent scraper isn’t gonna not the limit (will just switch accounts).
Plus let’s be real anyone with a decent scraper isn’t gonna not the limit (will just switch accounts).
Plus let’s be real anyone with a decent scraper isn’t gonna not the limit (will just switch accounts).
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My thought, too. It seems like a sensible measure. Any one smarter than me want to ELI5 why rate limits are bad?