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As users flee Twitter after hitting ‘limit’, Bluesky witnesses ‘record traffic’

Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the social media platform has suffered hits from his rather erratic decision-making - some good, some great, and some downright ugly. Right after taking the seat as the CEO of the company, he began a massive layoff that saw people working with the company for years being let go. Later, he introduced the Twitter Blue subscription, adding the blue tick as a part of the package, something that has been given to people of repute to distinguish them from fake accounts. While Musk is no…

As Elon Musk imposes rate limits on Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon gain BIG

Twitter users were left shocked last weekend after the company chairman and CTO Elon Musk posted a tweet that revealed that due to “extreme levels of data scraping” and “system manipulation”, the social media platform will be temporarily adding a limit to the number of tweets a user can see in a day. After a brief back and forth, the number was set as 10,000 tweets for verified users, 1,000 for unverified users, and 500 for unverified new accounts. Most users felt this was an inadequately small number as every time they…