Oh no! Elon’s Tweets on diet?
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Hey there! We’ve got some exciting news for you! So, you know Elon Musk, the super genius and owner of Twitter, right? Well, he just announced something really interesting called “read limits” on Twitter.
Let us break it down for you in simple sentences!
Elon’s Twitter Pranks: Reading Limits & TwitterDown
- You see, Elon Musk wants to protect the super valuable data on Twitter from sneaky scrapers. These scrapers try to steal all the cool stuff on the site without permission. So, to stop them, Elon put some restrictions in place. He said, “No more than 600 tweets a day for you, unverified folks!”
- Now, here’s where it gets really amusing. When this news came out, people all over the place started complaining! Thousands of them couldn’t access Twitter properly. Can you imagine that? It was like a big, funny ripple effect! Over 7,500 people were like, “Hey, Twitter, why are you giving us trouble?” They even made a hashtag called #TwitterDown. Haha!
- But wait, there’s more silliness! You know how before, anyone could read tweets and profiles without logging in? Well, that changed too! Now you have to log in to see all the chatter. Elon bought Twitter for a whopping $44 billion, and he wants to make it extra special. He calls it the world’s digital town square. How funny is that?
- Elon is a genius, but he’s also a prankster. He said these reading limits are just temporary. He wants to stop all those data thieves from ruining the fun for regular users like you and me. So, for now, unverified accounts can only read 600 tweets a day. But verified accounts, you know, the fancy ones, can scroll through up to 6,000 tweets a day! Wowzers!
- Oh, here’s a funny thing to remember. If you reach your reading limit, you might get locked out of Twitter for the rest of the day! Imagine being stuck without tweets. That’s like running out of ice cream on a hot summer day. Yikes!
- Elon had to come up with clever ideas to make money from Twitter because it wasn’t doing so well. Advertisers weren’t spending as much as before because some content on Twitter made people angry or upset. So, Elon hired a big shot named Linda Yaccarino to be the boss and win back the advertisers. That’s some serious business stuff right there!
- So, there you have it, my curious reader! Elon Musk put these read limits on Twitter to protect the precious data and stop the sneaky scrapers. Unverified accounts get 600 tweets a day, but verified ones can go up to 6,000. Isn’t that wild? Keep tweeting and giggling away, my little social media star!
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