Since Elon Musk bought the Twitter for $44 billion, the platform has gone from bad to worse. Starting with the fact that the eccentric South African billionaire ended moderation on the network, for being in favor of unrestricted freedom of expression, which gave voice to hate speech and drove away several advertisers who did not want to have their names linked to a social network that allows opinions. prejudiced without the slightest shame.
In addition, Musk himself announced, on his official account on the platform, that Twitter’s new way of responding to the press is with a ‘poop emoji’. He also made workforce cuts: Of the nearly 8,000 people who worked at Twitter, only 1,500 remained. Among those fired were journalists who contested his actions.
The billionaire also decided that it would be a good idea to charge users for the verification badge, which was previously free. Unsurprising, as Musk declared in 2019 in a Twitter post that he “hates advertising” but has bought a company that relies on it.
Musk’s newest “patapada” in his journey as owner of Twitter was to limit the view of content to 600 tweets diaries for unverified accounts, that is, those who chose not to give a portion of their hard-earned money to the South African heir. For verified ones, the limit rises to 10,000. But, after negative backlash, the limit of 600 was also increased to 1,000.
But why?
The owner of Tesla, SpaceX and now Twitter, claims that the measure is temporary and aims to prevent startups and big tech companies like Microsoft steal data from Twitter to teach artificial intelligence to act more humanely, which might make sense considering the fact that Musk withdrew his investment in ChatGPT and signed an open letter against the rampant development of chatbotdue to the potential danger of this and other AI technologies to humanity.
However, the limit of tweets left some journalists, who use the platform to check information and gather data for their reports, very angry with the restriction. The journalist Bel Trewchief international correspondent for The Independent, twitter that the limit of how many tweets she could read on the platform left her at a “total loss” while working, last Sunday (2). A reporter from the US city of Baltimore also failed to see the tweets from the account of the local police department, after a shootout that left two people dead and 28 others injured.
Those who received ‘rate limit exceeded’ notifications found that this applied to all accounts, including those that post real-time information about emergencies, weather risks and natural disasters. The BBC took to Twitter for clarification and was met with the traditional poop emoji.
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* With information from BBC News
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