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Twitter owner says new limits imposed to address ‘extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation’
Thousands of Twitter users reported problems with the social media platform this weekend, with many receiving a message saying “rate-limit exceeded” on their personal feed page meant for ...
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Twitter reserved 20 characters for the username, leaving 140 characters for the post. [4] The original limit was seen as an iconic fixture of the platform, [5] [6] [7] encouraging "speed and brevity". [8] Increasing the limit had been a topic of discussion inside the company for years, and had been resurfaced in 2015 for ways to grow the userbase.
On September 1, 2021, Twitter began to roll out Safety Mode, allowing users to reduce disruptive interactions. The rollout began with a small beta-feedback group on iOS, Android, and Twitter's web application. [121] The functionality allows users to temporarily block accounts for seven days when potentially harmful language is detected.
In computer networks, rate limiting is used to control the rate of requests sent or received by a network interface controller. It can be used to prevent DoS attacks [1] and limit web scraping. [2] Research indicates flooding rates for one zombie machine are in excess of 20 HTTP GET requests per second, [3] legitimate rates much less.
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The original limit was seen as an iconic fixture of the platform, [5] [6] [7] encouraging "speed and brevity". [8] In March 2017, the character limit on Twitter was changed so that media attachments or mentions in replies would not increase the character limit. [9] [10] [11] In November 2017, Twitter increased its character limit from 140 to ...