Threads Continues to Copy Twitter's Worst Elements With New Rate Limits – Gizmodo

Both Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram lead Adam Mosseri have been adamant they were not simply copying Twitter wholesale. And yet, that’s exactly what they seem to be doing as the company’s latest move has been to limit the number of posts users can see on the Instagram-based app, just as Elon Musk’s Twitter did a few weeks ago.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetMosseri claimed in a Threads post late on Monday that “Spam attacks have picked up,” requiring new rate limit changes. While the Instagram boss didn’t describe precisely what those post view limits were, he mentioned that some actual human users could get caught up in the crossfire.Some Threads users responded to Mosseri with screenshots of spam posts flooding the Instagram head’s replies. Gizmodo reached out to Meta for more details on what the rate limits entail, but the company declined to offer any more beyond the Instagram head’s post.You only have to look back to the first days of July when Twitter owner Musk announced that the platform would be limiting the number of tweets users could see per day, citing “system manipulation” and “extreme levels of data scraping.” After Mosseri made his announcement, Musk tweeted
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