TweetDeck suffers as Musk enforces read limits on Twitter
Ivan Mehta, reporting for TechCrunch, explains the new Musk Twitter changes and how they completely broke the site.
Over the weekend, Elon Musk limited the number of tweets users can read in a day, which he said was to prevent data scraping. While this measure has affected all Twitter users, TweetDeck users in particular are today reporting major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load.
Musk initially enforced read-limits of 6,000 daily posts for verified users and 600 daily posts for unverified users. Hours later, he increased these limits to 10,000 tweets and 1,000 tweets, respectively. Given that TweetDeck loads up multiple tweets through various columns simultaneously, it’s likely that the effects of the read restrictions are amplified within TweetDeck.
As I’ve said for a while, if Twitter kills Tweetdeck or puts it behind a paywall I’ll put my account into private mode and walk away.