If these restrictions are significant, please seek therapy
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Since 2007 or so, I haven't seen a good use case for Xitter other than situations where mass messaging is necessary. Like a utility company announcing maintenance or outages. Why do people care so much about what other people think?
My dear mother taught me that opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one and they all stink.
Wise woman.
this saying doesnt apply universally, what about people into butt stuff that regularly bleach their assholes you tear into that after a good bleaching/shower (and enema, if you want to be safe), it's fine
Do real people use this? Though it was just bots and trolls...
Does anyone actually reach those numbers? Is this a crackdown on bots?
50 posts a day!? If you hit 50 posts a day they should just ban you.
The point is to make bot farms create thousands of new accounts, driving up user accounts so they can trick investors and advertisers into thinking they still have a viable business.
"significant restrictions"
I wonder if author is a twitter addict
https://xcancel.com/htxtafrica
At least as far as sharing every article on their site there, yes. Almost 50k tweets
Eh that doesn't count. It's probably automated anyway.
This is enshitification, but it might be indirectly helping people who are on Twitter too much 😄
It doesn't do much to bot farms since they can keep spinning up more accounts
I would argue you cannot enshitify a service that was already shit. At this point this is more of a conshitidation.
Enshittification doesn't mean "making a good system bad". It's a specific process whereby the user experience of a platform is degraded in order to benefit the business partners. Then even the business partners are ripped off to benefit the platform owners.
If you want to get picky, Xwitter didn't enshitify as laid out as a concept by Cory Doctorow. The best example is probably Amazon which went from being insanely user friendly to lock in users, to supplier-friendly and increasingly less so for users, until it had squeezed and shafted both groups. That's enshitification and it doesn't apply to Xwitter. They had problems to make money before a certain somebody bought it. They've been bleeding users since the eventually Nazi saluting manbaby bought it, who then wanted to sue advertisers who refused to buy ads on his service. There was no user lock-in and then a supplier lock-in. There was just shit. All their current problems are man made. By one specific man.
I never thought I'd like using a word more than enshittification, but conshitidation takes the cake, I think.
Why the fuck do people still use Twitter? Why would you pay to use social media? You're already the product, and now you're going to pay to be the fucking product? Are you stupid?
hey now the gipity gonna save us all. It is the greatest invention ever. 🤤
Have you met people lately?
Yes I have. It was not good.
Oh, man, this will affect tens of people.
Its so hard for me to believe that there are people out there for whom this will be an issue. Who are these people and what's wrong with them?
My thoughts also... who the hell posts more than 50 times a day... well that's twitter isn't probably paid for with our tax dollars anyway.
Pretty much anyone whose username ends in .eth or begins with a dollar sign or has a crypto address in their bio, but the vast majority of those people already pay for that blue checkmark anyway
Twitter being paid for with our tax dollars is the first explanation I've heard which sounds like a way this company could actually continue to function.
Twits. It's a social class and a diagnosis.
Oh no! The nazi bar has set a drink limit! Guess I'll just have to continue not drinking there.
I'm happy to say that the only time I've ever even been on twitter was to check down times on destiny 2 servers which at the time was literally the only place they'd post stuff like that... Nobody knows why... But then again it's bungie... So...
omgawd sucker. I want it to speed up. Omgawd loser turds
Oh, no!
Anyway...
The upside of Twitter's downfall has been the absence of "look what so and so said in a tweet" headlines.
That means I'll end each day having only 50 posts remaining...
Even when I had an account years ago there was not a single day I posted/replied/commented/shared more than 1-3 times a day (1-3 interactions a day)
It was never my thing really so it was easy to remove from my life.
Who cares. Piece of shit platform.
How could anyone limit themselves to 50 posts on apartheid-fan-boi.facist?
Let me get this straight.....
Elon musk buys twitter for 44 BILLION dollars with the expectation that it will help be influencial towards societies general conversation.
So then he starts turning twitter into a right wing cesspool, and some users start leaving. Granted, not nearly enough. I think I read about 30% of the site has left, but thats still far too many who haven't left.
So despite his stupidity, he still has a sizeable platform. And his thought process is......"hey, you know those influencial voices we have on society? Lets limit those!"
So now they are reducing the amount of messages their users can put out into the world.
..........so what is even the goal here? Are they just doing things to stay in the news?
Stop trying to make sense of what he is doing. He is a common criminal fascist who is getting his nut just like sam gipity... Scammers don't need to make sense.
It's because he's an idiot.
I'd like to know how many of that 70% left are dead accounts.
......at least 1.
Gotta extract more value from the reduced user base. Think Netflix. Plus, they gotta recoup AI “investment” costs, and the remaining people on Xitter are predominantly mouth breathing rubes.
Add that to foresight only as far as the next quarter and it’s the most logical recipe for success /s
This is great! We need more enshittification on X!
But the bots will be less effective. I bet the API charges are going up soon.