Rate limit exceeded: Local officials find ways to inform public following Twitter usage cap

FILE – A Twitter app icon on a mobile phone is displayed April 26, 2017, in Philadelphia. TikTok and Instagram users can scroll with abandon. But Twitter owner Elon Musk has put new curfews on his digital town square, the latest drastic change to the social media platform that could further drive away advertisers and undermine its cultural influence as a trend-setter. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)(AP/Matt Rourke) The unexpected placement of limits on how many tweets a Twitter user can read in a day caught many off guard last week, including D.C.-area public agencies that rely on the social media site to communicate with those they serve.Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the number of tweets that users can view each day in an attempt to “prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the social media platform,” The Associated Press reported. “I was thrown for a little bit of a loop,” said Pete Piringer, chief spokesperson for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service. He said part of his job is catching up on — and in some cases, retweeting — information from other agencies on the county, state and local level. So, Piringer was shocked when he received the
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