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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.
Twitter increases tweets' character limit from 140 to 280 for all accounts. The earliest rollout to select accounts happened in September. [180] 2017 November 10 Product Twitter increases display names' character limit from 20 to 50 characters. [181] 2017 December Product Ability to post threads of multiple tweets at once [182] 2018 July 13 Product
[1] [2] [3] Users can tweet via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries. [4] Users may subscribe to other users' tweets—this is known as "following" and subscribers are known as "followers" [ 5 ] or "tweeps", a portmanteau of Twitter and ...
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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.