My view is viewing should not be limited and only posting and commenting should.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter the purchase price was a reported $44 billion and I think everyone knew things would have to change. If you invest that type of money buying a business it has to turn a profit. The best and quickest way to make back the investment is to charge membership fees.
I was never going to be a user who paid for social media as I am no fan as the majority of tweets are a waste of time offering no value. I only use the site for updates on certain topics, but it is not a must have and definitely not worth paying for.
Today I was checking up on my crypto seeing if anything new was happening only to be restricted with the "Sorry you are rate limited" message appearing. Not a big deal, but for many it will be as they sadly live their lives through social media. Elon is not stupid and knows many will cough up the $8 a month to be verified as they have to have Twitter in their lives.
When you come to think about it reading 600 tweets a day is not that much considering how much crap is posted. This week when I saw VeChain trending by the time I had muted all the garbage there was nothing to read. So the trending was some hype I had no interest involving an airdrop of another useless memecoin.
This I can assure you will not be happening from myself and may check twitter once or twice a week from now on. The problem with humans is they are habit forming and many have nothing better to do with their lives than get caught up in social media circles which is rather sad.
I was never one to create a FaceBook account as I again saw no point in that nonsense as if you want to stay in contact with family and friends you speak to them on the phone. Unfortunately the world is driven by what happens on social media as it has taken over becoming a large part of society today.
Reality will hit home for many users as they just wont get the views they once had as if you are restricted you will check what is important and be out of there. 600 Tweets is just a small sample if you think about it as we do more reading whilst curating on Hive. I am not sure how numbers are calculated as you have the For You section and Following which is kind of unfair if the For You page always loads when you log onto the site. Would those be counted even though you never chose that selected nonsense?
It will be interesting to see if the Twitter numbers rise or decrease after this change as I would say they will decrease. My household alone is already over this as my kids spend more time on discord with their mates.
