Twitter’s Rate Limits: Threat Actors May Change Strategies If Unveiled Earlier, Slow Experience Still Observed

When Twitter gave the world a limit on its reach, the remaining users of the platform were angry as it could disrupt their app experience, with the company only explaining now. Not only was it a different experience for the platform, but it also proved to be a hindrance for several features available, including the famed TweetDeck, now coming in with a new version.

Twitter's Rate Limit Was Unveiled After Changes to Avoid Bad Actors

Twitter Business explained that the company decided to unveil the significant changes in the platform's rate limiting after it applied its tweet limits. While this significantly affected its usage and surprised users with the changes, Twitter said that it was for privacy reasons on its platform.

According to Twitter "To ensure the authenticity of our user base we must take extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform."

The social media company further explained that the reason behind this is to catch the bad actors once and for all, soon to improve the Twitter experience for all.

"That's why we temporarily limited usage so we could detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors that are harming the platform. Any advance notice on these actions would have allowed bad actors to alter their behavior to evade detection."

Twitter Limits: Slow Experience for a Fast One Soon?

Twitter's limits are also significantly affecting the platform, especially on its advertising ventures as its reach is less compared to before, which means less revenue for the social media, says Engadget.

For now, users would have to endure this new policy and change on Twitter.

Right at the end, Twitter gave a somewhat proverbial quote about its platform's decision to impose rate limits, with the company saying "you must slow down to speed up."

Twitter and its Issues Now

The start of July is not good for Twitter and its users, and many thought that the social media platform may be down or had an outage last weekend, but it is a significant change on the platform. Certain users saw the error message and prompt which says "rate limit exceeded," and this was the dawn of Twitter's new operations on the platform.

However, this was not because of a security problem or came from an attack on its servers, but Twitter getting ahead of these bad actors including what Elon Musk claimed, blaming AI. The company said that its main reason for limiting tweets is because it is protecting its data from companies who steal these from the social media company.

Most recently, Twitter also limited access to online tweets to those who are logged in or have an account to use for their access to different stories or links. The social media platform said that it is still working to fix the different issues and soon resolve this rate-limiting feature imposed, but did not mention or provide the timeline for the platform to go back to normal.