Tomorrow, Thursday, 6 July 2023, Meta will officially launch its new Threads app.
Meta is the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, but with the launch of Threads it wants to challenge Twitter directly.
It is probably no coincidence that it decided to launch it right now, which is when Twitter seems to be having problems.
Twitter’s problems
A few days ago Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, announced limitations on the number of tweets that can be read each day.
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
– Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day– Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day– New unverified accounts to 300/day
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
Officially this would be a solution to the problem generated by scraping.
Scraping is the activity done by various external bots of continuously downloading huge amounts of information, in the form of tweets, fro
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