TL;DR: Twitter limits verified accounts to reading 6000 posts a day, unverified accounts to 600
Sheldon Chang at Mastodon properly found the actual reason for the rate limit https://mastodon.social/@sysop408@sfba.social/110639436283129914
Maybe they can call one of the fired Devs
That explanation is patently idiotic, and so almost certainly true.
That’s crazy if true, Twitter rationing access for users because Twitter itself is falling apart.
Twitter is looking like it is becoming a failed state of social media.
At this point if you still use twitter you are a moron.
He claimed that the social media platform was “getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users”.
It turns out that managing one of the largest websites in the world requires more than a skeleton crew!
Already hit my limit in like 30 min
Sheesh. What is next, right?