Well #twitter is now unusable. I was following around 50 accounts and only viewing their posts, but somehow I still quickly hit the rate limit.
One gap this leaves for me is that I was following local #government accounts for safety/travel/etc updates. Hopefully they'll all start embracing mastodon now.
@Pat I follow a few accounts like that: city, county, fire department, school district
You could probably just sign up at their websites for email updates.
@Pat sure, and I have for at least a couple of those. But the content in email is much more curated and less real-time than their Twitter posts. It's not the end of the world to lose that, but it's also not zero value lost.
@strawd Well they need to be agile and start thinking about the volatility of Musk.
@strawd I haven't run into the rate limit yet, but when it happens, I will be in the same situation. I wonder if the promoted tweets I see count against the rate limit or not.
@strawd
>"One gap this leaves for me is that I was following local #government accounts for safety/travel/etc updates. "
How many local governments do you have?