The linked... uh, toot thread contains the following post, dated Nov. 4:
>Yeah, it's what I thought, there's a little star on the documentation saying that an app can only create 300 Tweets per user or per app for every 3 hours.
I believe that the influx caused a lot of new power users from twitter, that post a lot, to come over and that's now causing the crossposter to hit the limit
Not sure what is supposedly different a month later.
I’m seeing a lot of that in the Fediverse right now. Stuff that worked just fine for years is suddenly overwhelmed by the usage spike. Lots of volunteers putting in lots of cycles to scale things.
Fortunately it seems to be mostly working. I expect things will stabilize over the coming months without turning too many people off the platform.
People forget how often Twitter’s fail whale showed up in the early days…
> Stuff that worked just fine for years is suddenly overwhelmed by the usage spike. Lots of volunteers putting in lots of cycles to scale things.
To put it in numbers:
8,022,767 accounts as of now, on roughly 3,200 instances.
Vs
5,638,056 accounts on ~1,225 instances on October 26th, the day before the purchase closed and the growth spiked.
On Oct 26th, the last 24 hours of new users was 3,751. Last hour it was 3,626, and last 24 hours 57,286. We're way below the craziest peaks, but the signups appears to be reasonable stable and slowly increasing at the current level - no sign of falling back further towards where it was.
The growth in new instances has been outpacing the growth in new users for some time. Of course many of those are single-person instances, so harder to say exactly how that affects typical instance sizes.
>Yeah, it's what I thought, there's a little star on the documentation saying that an app can only create 300 Tweets per user or per app for every 3 hours. I believe that the influx caused a lot of new power users from twitter, that post a lot, to come over and that's now causing the crossposter to hit the limit
Not sure what is supposedly different a month later.