The sad truth about Twitter’s rate limit

Published: 03 July 2023
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Why did Twitter recently impose a rate limit for all users? The official reason is to combat web scrapers and bots, but others have speculated it's related to issues managing cloud resources.

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- How does rate limiting work?
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