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Re:New access tiers for the Twitter API by londons_explore on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:46PM (#35375570)
Kinda odd to let someone post 50,000 tweets, but only read (see) 10,000 tweets...

On a platform with a spam problem, you'd imagine you'd be stricter about who can tweet...

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Re:New access tiers for the Twitter API by thilog on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:01PM (#35375815)
IMHO Twitter wants to make sure content does not easily leave their platform, thus the stricter rate limits on reading.
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