4 Jul 2023

Emergency responders mull Twitter limits

From Checkpoint, 5:52 pm on 4 July 2023

To tweet or not to tweet in an emergency - that is the question. Twitter's temporarily limiting the number of tweets users can see - paid accounts can see up to 10,000, while free users are limited to 1000 or fewer. That could mean missing out on celebrity threads and sports feuds - but what about important emergency messages? Niva Chittock reports.

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