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Twitter and the value of time

Why the cranking about post limits, isn’t about post limits

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Katie Burkhart
Jul 17, 2023
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Person staring down at a clock with the Twitter logo affixed to it like a phantom
photo by Oladimeji Ajegbile on Unsplash | edits mine

I’ve seen a lot of posts and articles about the advent of Threads. Dubbed the Twitter Killer, the theory is that this platform will rise because things at Twitter aren’t going well. 

I shrugged this story off. I’m not planning to create a Threads account because I don’t trust Zuckerberg, and I have no stake in the Twitterverse either. I never got the magic, and I’m good with that.

But then, while I was sitting at a high-top table enjoying a late afternoon breeze with my chips and salsa, a comment on the situation caught my attention, sneaking up on me in a newsletter I only skim. It read: 

The past week’s decision by Elon Musk to limit free users to viewing 600 posts a day — enough for maybe 20 minutes of scrolling, maybe less — has sent a fresh wave of Twitter users looking for alternatives.

My reaction was, “600 posts? That is a lot of posts! What in the world are you doing on Twitter that long?”

And that made me realize we’ve been talk…

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