🔒 Twitter puts a cap on your tweet addiction

⚙️ Twitter Introduces Daily Tweet Quotas to Curb System Exploitation

If you’re a Twitter addict, you might have noticed some changes lately.

Twitter, has decided to limit how many tweets you can read per day. Why? Because some people are abusing the system and scraping all the data.

If you’re verified, you can now read up to 10,000 tweets per day. If you’re not, you can read up to 1,000. And if you’re new, you can read up to 500. And if you don’t have an account, you can’t read any tweets at all.

That’s still a lot of tweets for Twitter users, but not enough for some data-hungry bots and AI firms like OpenAI that are scraping Twitter like crazy.

This move comes after Twitter announced that users will need an account to view tweets, which Musk called a “temporary emergency measure”.

🔮 How Instagram and Facebook's AI Algorithms Customize Your Feed

Meta has just spilled the beans on how its AI algorithms decide what to show you on Instagram and Facebook.

In this blog post, Meta explained how Facebook and Instagram employ various AI systems to surface content that users will hopefully find useful and interesting.

Basically, the AI systems look at what you like, what you save, and what you ignore, and then show you more of the same. Or less, if you tell them to.

You can also see why you’re seeing a specific post or reel by tapping on “Why Am I Seeing This?” And you can choose to see content that’s not personalized for you by using the Explore filter.

Meta says it’s doing this to be more open and transparent about its powerful technologies. And also because it has to, for legal reasons.

But hey, at least now you know how to make your feeds more interesting. Or boring, if that’s your thing.

📜 Apple and Nokia Call a Truce: Strike Multi-Year Patent Deal

Nokia and Apple are finally playing nice after a history of suing each other over patents.

They first fought in 2009, where Apple sued Nokia in 2009 for attempting to copy the iPhone and Nokia sued Apple for copyright violations.

Then again in 2016, Nokia sued Apple for infringing several mobile patents.

Now, Nokia and Apple have just signed a new long-term patent license agreement that covers Nokia’s inventions in 5G and other technologies, and Nokia will receive payments from Apple for a multi-year period.

Nokia’s patent portfolio includes over 5,500 patents declared essential to 5G, built on more than 140 billion euros invested in research & development.

Jenni Lukander, president of Nokia Technologies, said the agreement reflects the strength of Nokia’s patent portfolio.

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