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Not only correct, but well documented - for anyone foolish enough to believe people who aren't even on the platform

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/07/01/how-to-get-around-twitters-new-rule-that-limits-users-to-reading-just-600-tweets-per-day/?sh=22b8c2061201

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I am talking about non-users. I am literally using a web browser on my desktop device right now. I almost exclusively browse Twitter as a non-user via a web browser on my desktop device. I'm looking at the fuckin' login wall every time I try to look at any single tweet on a web browser on my desktop device. For non-users, there is no way to read the site by conventional means and has not been for over 24 hours. 

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I mean, you're not missing much, and I think this development means that there will be plenty of alternative resources very soon.  I've tried both Mastodon and Post, with mixed results.  But, like most social media platforms, there are always those who want to find any excuse to vent their outrage rather than communicate with others.  I  guess some people will always choose to disagree rather than respect other peoples experience may be different than what they can comprehend.  

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Frankly, I find the timing of it all suspicious.  Twitter users far and wide were expressing their outrage over the SCOTUS rulings on affirmative action, LGBTQ+ discrimination and the (now-dead) student debt relief plan.  The next thing anyone knew, users were getting crazy "Rate Limit Exceeded" messages; then, Elon Musk, citing "data scraping" or some such nonsense, announced the new rate limits (which are supposed to be temporary, but we'll see, lol).

Moreover, I've read that it's all a result of Elon Musk failing to pay Twitter's Google Cloud bill.  I don't doubt that that's true.  Again, however, the timing is what strikes me as odd.  I think - and this is just my theory - that Elon has picked this particular moment to do what he had set out to do at the beginning - namely, to break Twitter for good.  

I mean, it seems awfully silly to waste $44 billion on a company you plan to destroy.  However, as the ridiculous news about his and Mark Zuckerberg's planned UFC-ish match has proven, Elon Musk is a spoiled, immature, overgrown brat, who WOULD think nothing of wasting billions on wrecking a social media company because they were mean to him or something.

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