/ 03 July 2023

Twitter wants you to get some fresh air

Image source: Getty
Image source: Getty

Under new limits imposed by Twitter owner Elon Musk, users who haven’t paid for blue tick verification will be temporarily limited to scrolling through 600 daily posts. ‘Verified’ subscribers will get their fix of 6,000 posts. Musk said the change was to “address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation” but later wrote it was “because we are all Twitter addicts and need to go outside.” Whatever the reason, the change caused the site to crash for some, effectively limiting post views to 0. And it’s not the only company staging tech-feature-rug-pulls… On 26 July, Apple will shut down a feature called My Photo Stream. If you’re worried about losing the 50,000 images you took on the weekend of your kid/dog/cat sleeping, here’s a guide to avoiding the picpocalypse.

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