Twitter and the value of time
Why the cranking about post limits, isn’t about post limits
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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