“Running Twitter is hard” – Deadline


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Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder and former CEO, weighs in on the uproar Elon Musk caused on the social platform after putting “view limits” on tweets.
“Running Twitter is hard. I wouldn’t wish that stress on anyone. I trust the team to do their best under the limitations they have, which are huge,” Dorsey tweeted. “It’s easy to criticize the decisions from afar … of which I am guilty … but I know the goal is to see Twitter thrive. It will.”
In a second tweet, he added: “And I hope they consider building on truly censorship-resistant open protocols like bitcoin and nostr to ease this burden. Good for everyone, and critical to preserving the open internet.”
Twitter users woke up to a flawed platform when Musk set limits on which tweets users would read daily. Musk said the limits were put in place “to deal with extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation.”
Users who are “verified” and pay a monthly subscription fee will be allowed to read 6,000 posts per day, while “unverified” users will be limited to 600 posts per day and new unverified users to 300 per day. Later in the day, Musk said the new limits would be 10k for verified users, 1k for unverified users and 500 for new users.
Musk would also later mock users who hit their “view limit”, tweeting the following: “Oh, the irony of hitting view limits due to complaining about view limits.”
Dorsey became a popular topic when Musk set new viewing limits. The former Twitter boss sits on the board of Bluesky Social, a new social networking service that aims to compete with Twitter. It is currently in beta and users can only sign up if they have an invite code.
As many tweeted their frustration with Musk’s decisions, many users began looking for alternatives, including Bluesky.