ANALYSIS: Like most other changes it may all be reversed in due course, but for now, Twitter is at its lowest point in terms of providing a functional and accessible town square.
It’s almost become cliché to say that Elon Musk has made a change to Twitter and many of its users are up in arms. But the latest snap decision from the billionaire social media owner constitutes such a big change, and seems so antithetical to the idea of Twitter from both a consumer and business point of view, that it feels as though a threshold has been crossed.
Originally, he said new unverified users could see 300 tweets per day, older unverified users could see 600, and verified users could see 6000. The announcement did not go down well with the bulk of users, especially given verification is locked behind a paid Twitter Blue subscription. Musk later revised the limits to 500, 1000 and 10,000.
Basic features like searching for phrases or hashtags have been hijacked by endless cryptocurrency scams and TikTok reposts. APIs that power accessible versions of Twitter have been revoked. TweetDeck, the popular platform for keeping track of multiple specific topics on Twitter, is broken. Its replacement, which is currently in preview, will be changed next month so only verified accounts can access it.
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