• AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Bots and people scrolling a lot.

      300 tweets is nothing, so essentially new users are limited to very casual reading.

      Don’t forget, that just clicking/tapping on a tweet opens the discussions about that tweet which in turn are each separate tweets. So opening a single, controversial tweet you actually want to read, might easily result in 20 read tweets as far as the API is concerned.

      • 9point6@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        The other thing is tweet embeds in articles.

        You can be watching a BBC live text page and have 20-30 tweet embeds go by over the duration of a football match.

        300 is low enough you could feasibly read enough news and hit the limits without even directly visiting Twitter

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      1 year ago

      It’s not for users, it’s to stop data scraping by AI companies they use for training.