Wednesday afternoon, it was discovered that Twitter is planning on limiting the number of tweets a user can post per day amid a number of disruptions on this social platform.
As it turns out, users were receiving notifications that they were “over the daily limit for Tweets” despite not tweeting anything, as a result of the controversy.
After further investigation, it appears that the warnings were nothing but a bug that, ironically enough, only affected users whose tweet counts were much lower than the newly imposed threshold.
According to the Twitter Help Center, users will now have a daily limit of 2,400 tweets. Additionally, there is now a limit on how many tweets a user can post per hour as well but a specific number is not yet known.
According to the official website, retweets also count towards both limitations,
And that’s not even all! There are also new restrictions on both direct messages and follows.
More precisely, Twitter users can follow no more than 400 accounts and send 500 direct messages per day.
Finally, 5,000 accounts, whether individuals or businesses, is the maximum number of accounts a single user on the platform, can follow.
Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, sent an email to staff members asking them to halt the development of new features for the foreseeable future, according to Fortune reporter Kylie Robison.
“Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up,” Robison shared on the same platform.
So what happens if you reach the daily tweet limit?
Well, the rule currently states that in order to continue tweeting, you must simply wait for another day.
The Help Center explains that “If you reach a limit, we will let you know with an error message telling you which limit you have hit. For limits that are time based (like the DMs, Tweets, changes to account email, and API request limits), you will be able to try again after the time limit. The Tweet limit of 2,400 per day is further broken down into semi hourly intervals. If you hit your Tweet limit, try again in a few hours after the limit period had elapsed.”