• mbryson
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    1 year ago

    Terrible idea (from my limited perspective to be fair.)

    Consider the amount of replies a tweet will receive. Each of those are posts (potentially) leading to a number of allotted viewed posts being taken from one thread.

    You also have to consider retweets. Do these count as a separate post if already viewed due to another account sharing it? I’d assume so - albeit pessimistically - leading to more allotted views being taken.

    In general the average user will have and already has (evidenced by Elons’ tweeting of increasing the limit from 300 to 500 for non-accounts and 600 to 1000 for those with an account) pressed against this limit easily within a days casual browsing. Limiting the amount of content your user can view may net small profit gains initially but will without a doubt frustrate a majority of the user base and stifle the platforms’ ability to provide information to the public, something twitter has been especially known for via press outlets (or at least before changes caused them to leave as well).