I know how to make our business profitable, let’s limit how much people can use it, and we’ll set that limit way less than most people use it. I figured this out because I am a stable genius!
Do people really read more than 600 tweets everyday? Sounds like a lot.
Well, it looks like Twitter doesn’t make a difference between the tweets you scrolled and the tweets you actually read. Which makes sense since Space Muggle said the new behavior was meant to prevent people from scraping the website.
So with that in mind 600 tweets a day is not much, especially with all the “sponsored” BS Twitter keeps pushing in the feed.
It’s not about how much you read, it’s about how much the front-end (whether app or website) has to load. That includes threads and replies with each item counting as an individual tweet. Every time you open a tweet, more tweets are preloaded. That limit evaporates very quickly.