Not too long ago, Elon Musk made a change to Twitter that limited the number of tweets that a person is allowed to see in a day. This tweet limit caused an uproar among users, and it’s breaking third-party Twitter apps.
That’s right. When it comes to making bad decisions regarding Twitter, Elon Musk is batting 1,000. Ever since the billionaire took the helm, Twitter has been spiraling out of control. Twitter Blue is more expensive, the verification badge doesn’t mean anything, and much more. But hey, at least your tweets can be up to 25,000 characters long.
Now, his next home run limits the number of tweets that a user can view on the platform. If you’re a verified user, then you’re limited to viewing 8,000 tweets in a day. If you’re an unverified user, then the number drops significantly. Unverified users can only view 800 tweets a day. If you’re a new unverified user, then don’t expect to see more than 300 tweets per day.
In a tweet, Musk mentioned that this is due to data scraping. He also said that this is going to be temporary. That’s good news, but he didn’t give us any insight as to when it’s going to end.
The tweet limit is breaking Twitter apps
This limit doesn’t only affect the first-party Twitter platform. There are third-party apps and services that you can use to view your tweets. Well, they’re subject to the limit as well.
Services like Tweetdeck are experiencing issues loading tweets. When trying to load different columns, you’d only get the spinning “loading” wheel. A report from Waxy (via Engadget) states that the Twitter web app is sending requests in an infinite loop. This could be because of a bug in the Twitter web app, but that hasn’t been confirmed.
A new beta version of Tweetdeck seems to fix that issue, but that victory was short-lived. Tweetdeck is still subject to the same tweet limit. So, after it loads the limited number of tweets, it won’t function. With a service like Tweetdeck, one that displays a ton of tweets at a time, it’s not hard to cap out your tweets.
Right now, we’re all just waiting to see how the company plans on making this situation better. Undoubtedly, people are upset about this limit. Even paying for Twitter Blue doesn’t get rid of the limit.