Nicki Minaj Shades Twitter's Rate Limits While Promoting The 'Pinktape'
Nicki Minaj has had enough of Elon Musk’s shenanigans, and she took to his very platform to let him know that she’s not with the mess — all while promoting her latest project.
Engadget reported that Twitter temporarily began putting a limit on the number of posts its users can read in a day on Saturday (July 1), with unverified accounts being limited to only 600 tweets. This temporary throttling was originally claimed to be due to Musk’s desire to allegedly prevent “extreme levels data scraping and system manipulation,” but was later revealed to be due to Musk’s apparent failure to pay for Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services, which is what’s ultimately causing the “throttle” in the first place.
Minaj, however, doesn’t necessarily care about all that, preferring instead to toss Musk under the bus while letting the Barbs know that her next project is on the horizon.
“Planning out how I’ll use my 600 limit today to promote the #Pinktape, mush the barbz in they head, block & beat the duds while dissing them & cracking up laughing at my own jokes, posting at least 1 nene GIF, call btchs my sons while being bossed around by #PapaBear Hmmm,” she wrote on Sunday (July 2).
Nicki shouldn’t fret too much. As a verified user, her limit has been raised to 8,000 from 6,000 Tweets, not 600.
Planning out how I’ll use my 600 limit today to promote the #Pinktape , mush the barbz in they head, block & beat the duds while dissing them & cracking up laughing at my own jokes, posting at least 1 nene GIF, call btchs my sons while being bossed around by #PapaBear Hmmm 💭 pic.twitter.com/5zwa9wSb8Q
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) July 2, 2023
Nicki Minaj first announced her new project on Thursday (June 29) — and she, once again, took to Twitter to make the announcement.
“Dear Barbz, I’ve been trying to find the right time to tell you this for a few days. Due to some really exciting news that I’ll share with you guys @ a later time, I’ve shifted the album date just a tad bit,” she wrote.
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“Trust me, it’ll be WELL WORTH THE WAIT…but since I AM shifting the date just a tad, I’d like to give you guys a tiny SIP of some more album tea so that I don’t have to get cussed out so…here it goes: MY NEW ALBUM WILL BE RELEASED ON 11.17.23- And she shall be called #PinkFriday2.”
She added: “I love you guys so much. I am so grateful for the years of support & love you guys have given me. At times maybe I didn’t even deserve all that you have poured into me. Nonetheless, you. will. love. this. album.”
Nicki also revealed plans to hit the road, saying that an accompanying tour will follow early next year.
“I will give tour deets closer to that time, but obviously the tour will start around the first quarter of 2024,” she wrote. “I’ll also share the REAL album cover at a later date.”