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What is the limit? Article doesn't say.

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2,400 per day, according to Twitter: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-limit...

This seems pretty reasonable honestly. Who the heck needs to tweet more often than 100 tweets per hour continuously?

I have a few friends who use Twitter DMs as chat, and 500 seems low for that purpose. Plus, I'd figure that a 1:1 message is a lot easier and lower load than trying to consistently share something globally....

Bots, probably.

Based on other comments this isn't the actual limit (ie: it's much lower) or the current implementation is broken.

Oh, cool, so it will effect bots and a couple people who could use the corrective nudge. Thanks for that.

The error people are getting links to this page: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-limit...

tl;dr:

* 500 DMs (yes, direct messages)

* 2400 tweets

* 4 account email changes

* 400 follows

* Additional restrictions once an account following 5000 people total

That's been the limit since sometime between November 29 [1] and December 13 [2]. The daily tweet limit has been 2400 since at least 2018-01-03 [3]. I'm not sure why the DM limit was reduced.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20221129122631/https://help.twit... 2. https://web.archive.org/web/20221213164704/https://help.twit... 3. https://web.archive.org/web/20180103202353/https://help.twit...

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