“The specifics of these new limits are intentionally vague but it’s clear that they are targeted directly to spammers who mass-follow other Twitter users in a short amount of time or blast out updates every few seconds.”

“It’s bad enough no one wants to pay for anything, but the expectations placed on free services to deliver 99.99999% reliability are astounding. Come on, what do you expect for nothing?”

“It’s a bit worrisome that the tech scene can take a tone of a witch hunt, and begin to call for a company’s product to be reverse engineered as a public utility, like Michael Arrington and others seem to be trying to do to Twitter.”