Twitter’s power-user centered TweetDeck interface is experiencing main points after proprietor Elon Musk announced limits on the variety of tweets customers can view every day. The Verge has skilled these points first hand with our publication’s Twitter accounts, and multiple users across the platform (together with at least one Twitter Blue subscriber, spotted by TechCrunch) are reporting seeing an empty interface that will usually be crammed with tweets. Customers are reporting various features of the interface being damaged, with notifications, mentions, likes, and lists failing to load.
Whereas customers have been reporting points with Twitter all through the weekend, issues with TweetDeck are more likely to create points for skilled and energy customers of Twitter, who depend on the service to construct their manufacturers, promote their work, and — within the case of many newsrooms — as a reporting software.
The problems are thought to narrate to the brand new limits on viewing tweets that Elon Musk announced on July 1st. Musk claimed that the boundaries, which he referred to as “short-term” had been wanted “to handle excessive ranges of knowledge scraping [and] system manipulation” on the platform. With the brand new limits utilized, Verified accounts (primarily these subscribed to Twitter Blue) had been restricted to studying 6000 posts a day, whereas different accounts could be restricted to both 600 or 300, relying on their age.
Musk later announced increases in these limits to 10,000 tweets for verified subscribers, and between 1,000 and 500 tweets for different customers. Away from TweetDeck, Twitter’s primary web site and apps seem like purposeful as of Monday morning.
The boundaries had been introduced a day after Twitter began blocking unregistered customers from studying tweets for comparable causes. “A number of hundred organizations (possibly extra) had been scraping Twitter knowledge extraordinarily aggressively, to the purpose the place it was affecting the true consumer expertise,” Musk said as justification for the change. Musk is probably going referring to AI firms right here, with the suggestion that they’re scraping Twitter to coach giant language fashions.
When contacted for remark, Twitter’s press line responded with an automatic poop emoji, because it has completed since shortly after Elon Musk took over the corporate and gutted its communications division.
