Elon Musk was relatively quiet for months, but suddenly, Muskrat is turning into one of the main characters of May. There’s all of the racist horses-t with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, in which Musk is basically having a white-supremacist tantrum over Lupita Nyong’o playing a mythical figure. Then, on Monday, Musk lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The jury found that Musk simply waited too long to sue, so the whole case was tossed out. Bad news for Musk, but good news for Sam Altman, who also happens to be in contention for Worst Person In the World. Meanwhile, Muskrat is still trying to force people to pay to use his crappy social media platform, the Tragedy Formerly Known As Twitter. Musk is now putting strict limits on unverified users, i.e., people who are not paying for their accounts.

Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) has introduced new posting limits for non-verified users, restricting accounts to 50 original posts and 200 replies per day. According to details shared on X’s Help Center, the company said these limits are intended to reduce pressure on backend systems, lower downtime, and minimise error pages during periods of high activity. X stated that restricting how frequently some actions can be performed helps maintain platform reliability and prevents system overload.

The update marks a shift from the platform’s earlier moderation approach, which focused more on limiting certain formats rather than capping the number of posts users could publish daily. Some users have reported that their posts were automatically moved to drafts or flagged as bot-like activity after hitting the new limits.

X said that the current technical limits for non-verified accounts include:

500 Direct Messages per day
50 original posts per day for unverified users
200 replies per day for unverified users
4 account email changes per hour
400 follows per day

Users with unverified accounts can send up to 500 direct messages per day on X and are limited to 50 original posts and 200 replies daily, with these limits divided into smaller semi-hourly intervals. Accounts can change their registered email address up to four times per hour. The platform also allows users to follow up to 400 accounts per day, although additional rules against aggressive following behaviour still apply. According to X, once an account follows 5,000 users, further follow attempts are restricted based on account-specific follower ratios.

[From Business Standard]

Way to screw up a once-great platform, dude. One of the joys of Old Twitter was when a big story broke and everyone chimed in and cracked jokes and made memes in real time. Old Twitter was a fun hang, especially on such notable days as: Trump getting Covid; Biden being declared the winner; the day people found out that 21 Savage was born in the UK; the Oscar slap of 2022; #HasJustineLandedYet; Team USA winning the Women’s World Cup in 2019, and on and on. No one was counting tweets or replies. No one was bean-counting likes. All of this is because Musk’s own tweets go nowhere, right? I have no idea if that’s true, I’ve had him blocked for like two years. Anyway, if you’d like one of my 200 daily replies, you can follow me here at KaiseratCB. I’m also on BlueSky. CB is on Twitter, BlueSky and Threads.

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