This weekend, Elon Musk announced a temporary limit on the number of tweets an account can view. Not even payment accounts were spared from this limit. Hours later, after the panic spread, Musk himself announced an extension of this limit from 6,000 posts per day for verified accounts to 8,000, from 600 to 800 posts per day in the case of old but unverified accounts, and 300. to 400 tweets per day for newly created unverified accounts.
The reason? He explains it himself, it’s the fault of data scraping. A type of data extraction that different companies do in order to train artificial intelligence for free. Through different accounts, they copy huge amounts of information that the users themselves create, process it and thus train their linguistic models.
Musk does not want to give this information for free and also, we must not forget that the tycoon himself was the founder of OpenAi, creator of ChatGPT, and it is this technology that now ‘steals’ data from him. The problem is so serious that it seems to be affecting Twitter’s servers, as they consume and use so much information in a massive way.
Hours later, after the second announcement, Musk updated the information again, noting that the figures now became 10,000, 1,000 and 500 tweets. After so much confusion, on Saturday night, different users witnessed, astonished, how the social network prevented them from seeing more tweets despite, even, not having exceeded the limit imposed by Musk. “Sorry, you have reached the query frequency limit” could be read in the application.
As a result of the blockade, many other users tried to find alternatives. Restarting the app, uninstalling and reinstalling, accessing from the browser. However, among the alternatives and various adventures to skip the order and mandate of the current owner of the social network, TweetDeck emerged triumphant. For veteran, intuitive and simple.
Although this time of glory seems to have ended soon since, throughout today, many users have seen how TweetDeck stopped showing their ‘feed’ of tweets, as well as the different hashtags they were monitoring.
TweetDeck is a social network management platform widely used by journalists, communication professionals and different brands, which allows optimizing the presence on Twitter and simplifying daily work. This tool provides a wide range of functionalities that facilitate the efficient management of multiple accounts and the monitoring of relevant information in real time. Hence, it is essential for journalists, both ‘freelance’ and members of a newsroom.
From TweetDeck you can easily manage multiple Twitter accounts from a single interface, it also has the function of scheduling tweets. You no longer need to constantly log in and out, saving time and effort. Additionally, custom columns can be arranged to track specific hashtags, searches, and mentions. Allowing the monitoring of trends and news in real time.
From TweetDeck, in addition to bypassing Musk’s block, you can retweet, reply, send direct messages and mark tweets as favorites directly from its interface, both on the web and in the desktop application for Mac.
The problems that TweetDeck is presenting not only affect unverified accounts, but also verified ones and even those that pay for the Twitter Blue subscription. Which may mean more financial hardship for Musk, as many users are considering the utility of the subscription if they are experiencing the same issues and limits as free users.
TweetDeck’s design is so good that many of the alternatives out there have an interface that is a carbon copy. This is the case of Tweeten, for Windows and Mac, or TweetDuck, only for Windows, desktop or portable version. In fact, both are based on TweetDeck, but adding some more features. Another of the most famous alternatives is Hootsuite, a well-known tool among communication professionals thanks to its integration with other social networks such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn and even YouTube. It also bases its interface on freely organized columns, however, the biggest drawback is that it is paid.
Buffer is another well-known service for managing different profiles from both Twitter and other social networks. It allows you to schedule posts, but its interface is not column-based, so it can be a bit smoother at first. It’s not in Spanish either. It has a free plan in which you can only manage up to three social networks and has a limit of 30 publications that can be scheduled. It works both from the web, as well as in iOS and Android applications.
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