• FelisCatus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.