In early July, Twitter began imposing a rate limit, drastically reducing the number of tweets users (especially those not subscribed to Twitter Blue) could see in a day. CEO Elon Musk said the measure, which has since been relaxed, was introduced to address “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation,” but it did not sit well with the people who had their accounts hit. limit and cannot use Twitter even if they do not participate in said practices.
This, perhaps, is one of the reasons that made Threads – Meta’s Twitter competitor – so popular at launch. But now, Threads also introduces a rate limit.
According to the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri(opens in new tab) (Threads is a standalone app but it is tied to Instagram), it was created to combat spam attacks that are “taken” by the platform.
“We need to tighten things like rate limits, which means more unintentionally limiting active people (false positives).
Active user threads halved in a week, the report said
Again, this probably doesn’t sit well with users. In response to Mosseri’s post, many users complained about error reports and being suspended without sufficient reason, as well as other bugs, including not following users back.
In addition to these issues, Threads still lacks many of the basic features that Twitter has had for years, which is probably one of the reasons why user engagement dropped so much after the first one. increasing interest. The threads are doing something about it, though; the company recently rolled out its first major update, with features(opens in new tab) such as translations, activity feed scrolling and loading improvements, and the ability to subscribe to unfollowed users.
