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Elon Musks Twitter - New rate limits - users leaving and more · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hi everybody and welcome back to the Elon Musk podcast on today's
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  episode, we delve into the stormy seas, the Twitter Inc or
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  X Corp, as it's now, known is currently navigating will be
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  discussing everything from a multimillion-dollar lawsuit,
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  claiming Twitter failed to pay promised employee bonuses.
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  The new user policies shaking the twitterverse will dissect.
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  The transformative effect that musk's take over his head on
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  this social media Behemoth as well as how these drastic
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  changes are spurring user migration into surge in
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  litigation Ian from unexpected changes such as tweet access
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  restrictions aimed at combating data scraping to the
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  resurrection of previously, banned accounts.
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  Musk's leadership of Twitter has been nothing.
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  If not eventful the platform. Now, faces mounting legal
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  challenges, a discontented user base and the departure of key
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  Evert sizers. Yet amidst the upheaval, some
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  competitors, such as Blue Sky are witnessing record, high
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  traffic. So stick around as we dive deep
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  into these developments. Applications for Twitter's
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  future. And what this means for the tech
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  World At Large, but first, let's hear a word from our generous
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  We'll be right back with the heart of the matter.
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  Twitter Inc, also known as X Corp once the epicenter of
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  online. Social dialogue is now mired in
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  legal disputes, a consequential, Exodus of users and the
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  controversial reign of the new ownership from Elon Musk, and
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  with its acquisition by Tech tycoons.
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  Ilan last year, the platform has seen drastic shifts.
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  It is Policies and conduct the social media giant.
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  Now confronts a class action lawsuit, alleging that it has
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  failed to deliver on promised employee bonuses.
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  The suit was filed on Tuesday by Mark show Binger a former senior
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  director of compensation at Twitter who exited the company.
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  Last month. In the suit alleges that Twitter
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  had committed to giving employees 50% of their target
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  bonuses for 2022. Promises that the lawsuit claims
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  have not been fulfilled and the clean.
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  It's towards a potential breach of contract on Twitter's part,
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  Twitter's official response to the legal action was
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  characteristically musk X. They offered up a poop emoji.
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  The media relations office, like many other facets of the social
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  media. Giant has vanished since musk's
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  acquisition the legal representation for show Bender.
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  Attorney Shannon. Liz Riordan is no stranger to
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  Twitter's courtroom escapades this Riordan represents former
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  Twitter employees. Several other lawsuits in
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  approximately 2000 individual arbitration cases these stem
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  from musk's Mass layoffs last year, which led to accusations
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  of unfulfilled Severance packages.
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  It alleged discriminatory targeting a female and disabled
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  employees during the layoffs. Twitter has consistently denied
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  any wrongdoing in these instances and the influx of
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  legal troubles, doesn't stop with disgruntled employees,
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  many, landlords vendors, and Consultants have also brought
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  legal action against Twitter over unpaid bills, a legacy
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  inherited by musk upon purchasing the company.
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  And in another significant soup, three, former Twitter,
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  Executives, including the ex-ceo are, suing the company in
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  Delaware, they claim that Twitter reneged on an agreement
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  to reimburse over 1 million dollars in legal fees, incurred
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  in responding to government regulatory requests.
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  In a midst, This legal Quagmire musk announced.
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  A sudden change to Twitter's user policies to To combat data,
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  scraping by AI companies, Twitter has temporarily
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  restricted, the number of tweets users can access daily.
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  The limitation varies for verified and unfair of I'd
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  users. And it's unclear how long these
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  limits will last or the conditions required to lift them
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  as per musk's declaration. Verified accounts can access
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  6,000 tweets per day. While unverified ones are
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  limited to 600 Now, new unverified users, who, Joined
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  post, the announcement are further, restricted to only
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  three hundred tweets per day. These rates are expected to
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  increase soon, according to musk.
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  Now, musk's move followed his expression of concern, over
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  quote, extreme levels of data, scraping by artificial
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  intelligence companies, This directly affects chatbots like
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  chat. TBT the rely on substantial data
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  servers typically, script from the internet and the impact of
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  these new restrictions and other Twitter features such as their
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  audio conversation, platform spaces remains unclear, however,
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  a surgeon error messages like quote rate limit exceeded on
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  users home feed suggest far-reaching implications user
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  reports of Twitter malfunctions on down detector spiked it a
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  a.m. eastern on Saturday and continued throughout that whole
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  day. At since purchasing Twitter for
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  forty four billion dollars, last October musk has introduced a
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  slew of significant changes, he's restored previously.
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  Banned accounts including former President, Donald Trump's
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  replace the verification system with a pay to verify model in a
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  pointed Linda. Yeah, kirino formerly of NBC
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  Universal as Twitter CEO. However, these changes have not
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  been without consequence. Others have departed and mass
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  raising questions about Twitter's future Revenue model.
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  Moreover, Twitter's frequent glitches and changing user
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  experience have spurred users to migrate to similar platforms,
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  like mastodons, blue sky and a proposed Twitter clone by meta.
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  And in a Twist of irony, Blue Sky.
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  A platform backed by former Twitter, CEO, Jack Dorsey has
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  seen record high traffic after musk's announcement.
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  The app is described as a decentralized.
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  Social network and has been considered a potential Twitter
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  alternative. However it remains invite-only
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  at this time in another major policy shift.
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  Twitter is clamp down on the number of tweets per day.
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  The various accounts can read the new restriction aimed at
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  deterring extreme levels of data, scraping and system.
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  Manipulation was announced by Elon Musk Saturday.
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  Now the 6603 hundred numbers there are going to be changes to
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  that however musk later, raise those limits to 10,000 for
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  verified users, 1004 unverified and 504, new unverified users.
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  He provided no additional Tours explanation to these changes.
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  The move follows Twitter's decision to make viewing tweets
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  and exclusive feature for its account holders must label.
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  This a temporary emergency measure and clip that hundreds
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  of organizations were scraping Twitter data, extremely
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  aggressively. Thus impairing the user
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  experience must frustrations are not new and have been directed
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  towards artificial intelligence firms, including open AI, the
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  developer of chat, CBT is previously criticized them for
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  using Twitter. Data to train their large
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  language, models in the implementation of these changes
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  has not been without hitches on Saturday morning, Twitter
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  experience, a significant outage with nearly 7,500 users
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  reporting issues. In other musk's ownership,
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  Twitter has made several attempts to regain advertisers,
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  who abandoned the platform. One such move has been
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  monetizing verification, check marks as part of the Twitter
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  blue program to boost subscription revenue and the
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  legal battles. In tumultuous policy changes
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  paint a really challenging Picture for Twitter future with
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  an increasingly disgruntled user base and mounting legal
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  disputes. It remains to be seen whether
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  musk's drastic measures will lead to revitalizing the
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  platform or to continue to provoke instability and
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  discontent. Thanks for listening to the Elon
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  Musk podcast. Appreciate your support and I
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