Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Breaks Silence Amid Elon Musk Setting Viewing Limits: “Running Twitter Is Hard”
02.07.2023 - 03:31
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Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder and former CEO, is weighing in on the uproar Elon Musk caused on the social platform after setting “view limits” on tweets.
“Running Twitter is hard. I don’t wish that stress upon anyone. I trust that the team is doing their best under the constraints they have, which are immense,” Dorsey tweeted. “It’s easy to critique the decisions from afar…which I’m guilty of…but I know the goal is to see Twitter thrive. It will.”
In a second tweet, he added, “And I do hope they consider building on truly censorship-resistant open protocols like bitcoin and nostr to help ease that burden. Good for all, and critical to preserve the open internet.”
And I do hope they consider building on truly censorship-resistant open protocols like bitcoin and nostr to help ease that burden. Good for all, and critical to preserve the open internet.
Twitter users woke up to a glitchy platform as Musk set limits on the tweets that users would read daily. Musk said that the limits were put in place “to address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation.”
Users that are “verified” and pay a monthly subscription fee would be allowed to read 6000 posts a day, while “unverified” users would be limited to 600 posts a day and new unverified users to 300 a day. Later on in the day, Musk said that the new limits would be 10k for verified users, 1k for unverified users and 500 for new users.
Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k
Musk would also later poke fun at users reaching their “view limit” tweeting out the following: “Oh the irony of hitting view limits due to complaining about view limits.”
Oh the irony of hitting view limits due to complaining about view limits
Dorsey became a trending topic as Musk set new viewing limits. The