TweetDeck is falling aside after Twitter’s rate-limiting fiasco

Twitter’s power-user targeted TweetDeck interface is experiencing main points after proprietor Elon Musk introduced limits on the variety of tweets customers can view every day. The Verge has skilled these points first hand with our publication’s Twitter accounts, and a number of customers throughout the platform (together with a minimum of one Twitter Blue subscriber, noticed by TechCrunch) are reporting seeing an empty interface that might usually be crammed with tweets. Customers are reporting various points of the interface being damaged, with notifications, mentions, likes, and lists failing to load.

Whereas customers have been reporting points with Twitter all through the weekend, issues with TweetDeck are more likely to create points for skilled and energy customers of Twitter, who depend on the service to construct their manufacturers, promote their work, and — within the case of many newsrooms — as a reporting device.

The problems are thought to narrate to the brand new limits on viewing tweets that Elon Musk introduced on July 1st. Musk claimed that the bounds, which he referred to as “non permanent” have been wanted “to deal with excessive ranges of information scraping [and] system manipulation” on the platform. With the brand new limits utilized, Verified accounts (basically these subscribed to Twitter Blue) have been restricted to studying 6000 posts a day, whereas different accounts can be restricted to both 600 or 300, relying on their age. 

Musk later introduced will increase in these limits to 10,000 tweets for verified subscribers, and between 1,000 and 500 tweets for different customers. Away from TweetDeck, Twitter’s most important web site and apps look like practical as of Monday morning.

The bounds have been introduced a day after Twitter began blocking unregistered customers from studying tweets for related causes. “A number of hundred organizations (possibly extra) have been scraping Twitter knowledge extraordinarily aggressively, to the purpose the place it was affecting the true consumer expertise,” Musk mentioned as justification for the change. Musk is probably going referring to AI firms right here, with the suggestion that they’re scraping Twitter to coach giant language fashions. 

When contacted for remark, Twitter’s press line responded with an automatic poop emoji, because it has executed since shortly after Elon Musk took over the corporate and gutted its communications division.