I've been busy all day, and when I just opened the app I instantly got "cannot retrieve tweets at this time". No way I've reached 600 or 6000 posts. Got it from the first tweet I tried viewing.

From comments and personal experience, it is incredibly likely Elon screwed up the rollout and the "600 posts/day" isn't accurate and is triggering much, much sooner than expected.

I think a ton of users will hit 600 "posts read" really quickly, if that's what they're measuring.

Refresh your timeline, load 20 new tweets. Tap a tweet, load 10 replies, etc.

Even if Twitter loads 20 tweets, it doesn't mean you've read 20 tweets.

This is not semantics, as tweet impressions are a separate metric Twitter tracks and would more intuitively represent reads.

Unless Twitter engineering did some malicious compliance for Elon.

Personally I wouldn't assume that the app that's been demonstrated to count "views" in extremely sketchy ways has suddenly started caring about the distinction between loading and reading a post. Especially when the intent is pretty obviously to herd users towards subscribing.

Fair counterpoint: Tweet views are a vanity metric (which is why Elon likes them), but tweet impressions are a required metric for advertisers to track ad CTR and any shenanigans there will actually kill Twitter.

If the point is to stop scrapers, they would _have_ to use “tweets fetched” as the metric.

The bullshit reason given for this was to “prevent bots and scrapers”, so I strongly suspect they’d be using API responses, rather than impressions.

Especially so considering how quickly some people are reporting the rate limiting impacts them

600 tweets is like 1 timeline reload for me and i follow less that 100 accounts

The fact that even paid subscribers are limited to 6000 posts a day (seems like a lot, very much isn't if you're a remotely active user) is utterly bonkers. What other platform works like this?

And that's probably 6,000 tweets loaded via API, not 6,000 that you might care about. Don't they promote and show you posts from blue checkmark people even if you're not following them?

Yes, they count