Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no signup or other throttling in place. Two approaches: but there will likely be only one winner.

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The Pragmatic Engineer Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling. Twitter started to throttle usage last weekend, limiting users to a few hundred tweet impressions and then cutting them off for the day. It's still unclear what exactly caused this move, but it surely had to do with infrastructure issues.

Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling

<p>Mark launched at the perfect time, while Elon ruined Twitter and thinks users will stay since there is nowhere to go. Recent issues with Reddit prove there is no people platform.</p>
