X users capped at 50 posts a day unless they pay up

If you're posting over 50 times a day on X, you might need to both think about that and be aware that you'll now have to pay for it.

As detailed by Engadget, users reported seeing updates to the social media platform's Help Centre, with new post limits for free accounts "to alleviate some of the strain on the behind-the-scenes part of X and reduce downtime and error pages."

That means if you're not paying $3 per month for X's Premium blue checkmark subscription, your posts are now capped.

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X users without verification are limited to 50 original posts, 200 replies, and 500 direct messages per day. As Engadget pointed out, cached versions of the Help Centre show the previous post limit was 2,400 per day.

That might sound like a lot of posts. And it is. Especially on a platform with major content flood problems and bots.

"If you do reach a limit, we'll let you know with an error message telling you which limit you've hit," says X. "For limits that are time-based (like the Direct Messages, posts, changes to account email, and API request limits), you'll be able to try again after the time limit has elapsed." The company also said that "limits may be temporarily reduced during periods of heavy site usage."

Non-paying users are also limited to 400 follows per day, which hasn't changed.

Post limits aren't the only way X has been recently trying to get users to pay for Premium, with the company launching a TweetDeck-like feature called Custom Timelines for subscribers in April. But for X owner Elon Musk, there's been more pressing matters of late.

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