Elon has responded to the criticism and is increasing the limits to a whopping:

Verified accounts: 8000 posts/day
Unverified accounts: 800 posts/day
New unverified accounts: 400 posts/day
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    I had to look this up, couldn’t believe it. I’ve been pretty indifferent to Musk and Twitter…cause I’ve been always indifferent to Twitter, but this is crazy. As an example, my city’s police and bus services and others all use Twitter to send updates out. And I’m sure it’s the same for most places. And now they’ve essentially lost the ability to mass communicate with people, because they need to be able to reach everyone not just those with an account.

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      The problem is with your city’s public servants. Relying on something like Twitter was a huge mistake.

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        Until recently it was a great way to reach people in a way you can’t really do with any other platform.

        But this day and age breaking TV broadcast doesn’t work for anyone under the age of 55 or so

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            Sure, that’s easy to say. But name another free, publicly available, instant mass message delivery system they could also use?

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              Yeah exactly, and Twitter was the first of its kind. It was the platform to introduce @tagging usernames, hashtags, micro blogging and was very accessible. There are lots of other social media platforms, but none of them are like twitter with exception now of Mastodon, but even mastodon has a small barrier, twitter you visit an url and have access to all the content on that account immediately, just by visiting an url. This is fundamentally why it was adopted along side Facebook and not to replace it. It had a function, still does really, even tho it’s on fire.

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      I used Twitter for all my local updates - from what’s happening at city hall to live traffic and weather updates.

      What’s up with CEO’s messing with social media companies. Huffman and Musk seem to enjoy ruining good things :(

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        What’s up with CEO’s messing with social media companies

        I have some theories but they all boil down to: They openly despise us commoners. Maybe this will prompt public services to take better care of their websites. It would be a welcoming change.

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        Yeah I don’t understand it.

        I’m sure something else will come along, the public service sphere of Twitter is too important. What else can they do? Go back to sending out press statements and breaking news on the radio or TV? Something will come along and fill that gap.

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        It’s a symptom of the end of cheap money. It’s fine to not turn a profit when the economy is bullish and there’s money sloshing around everywhere, but at some stage you have to justify your existence, especially when advertisers stop buying ads, which has been the case for a while

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      The US National Weather Service’s local offices (which each have their own Twitter handle) post Twitter updates for every watch and warning (thunderstorm, tornado, hurricane, you name it) they send out. Imagine if you couldn’t receive those updates or they couldn’t post them.