Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, stated on Twitter that he will be taking a little break from the social networking site. This occurs in the midst of the continuing debate over rate restrictions that was started by Twitter’s choice to limit users’ reading.
These limitations were put in place by Twitter under the direction of CEO Elon Musk as a defence against “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation. However, the action has generated a substantial response, including service interruptions and user annoyance.
The community’s reaction to the rate limit problem is a combination of humour and annoyance. Some made playful allusions to Hoskinson exceeding his rate limit, finding humour in difficult situations. Hoskinson was urged by others to take a break.
Following hundreds of user reports of technical concerns, like being unable to recover tweets, lost timelines, and followers mysteriously disappearing, the public first became aware of Twitter’s divisive rate limit policy.
When users attempted to access tweets, the message “rate limit exceeded” frequently appeared in their browser windows. Following an earlier declaration that users must have an account on the website to access tweets, Twitter made its decision.
The recently imposed limitations have received largely unfavourable feedback from the general public. The hashtag #TwitterDown became popular as a result of users venting their annoyance at seeing alerts like “rate limit exceeded” and “Cannot retrieve tweets” in their feeds. As a sign of their doubt about the rate limit’s ability to prevent data scraping and system manipulation, detractors also started the hashtag #RIPTwitter.
