The July 4 holiday week was a consequential one for text-driven social platforms.
The text-centric social platform has been undergoing a radical transformation since it was acquired by Elon Musk last year. And while it has a new CEO it is not clear how much of the platform’s strategy is being driven by Musk.
After a couple days of radio silence on the rate limiting, Twitter and Yaccarino published a short note explaining the move, writing that they limited Twitter’s functionality “so we could detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors that are harming the platform.” “Any advance notice on these actions would have allowed bad actors to alter their behavior to evade detection,” the statement added. The company also disclosed that Tweetdeck, a popular interface for Twitter power users, would be going behind a Twitter Blue paywall in a few weeks, in an apparent effort to drive more subscriptions.
The chaos and strategic moves , may have also been a “blood in the water” moment for the Mark Zuckerberg-led
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