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Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

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Re: Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

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Post by EA-3167 »

climatologist wrote: post #13
sidibe wrote: post #6

Another master stroke of genius from this first principles maverick. Everything in every field is so simple for him, it's a wonder every one else has been just too stupid to try these ideas before. Horribly mismanaged Twitter that was before Elon failing to the tune of around break even is now going to have hundreds of millions of paid blue checks for sure

He's trying to get more people to commit to giving Twitter $8/month. I'm not sure if it's going to work because I suspect people will just change their browsing habits and continue not paying. Next CEO will have to figure out how to continue getting more advertising dollars to continue paying for the servers and the bandwidth.

Nothing is more likely to drive people away from social media than trying to put a dollar value on it.

None of them are worth paying for, not a single one.

Re: Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

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Post by sidibe »

EA-3167 wrote: post #22
climatologist wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's trying to get more people to commit to giving Twitter $8/month. I'm not sure if it's going to work because I suspect people will just change their browsing habits and continue not paying. Next CEO will have to figure out how to continue getting more advertising dollars to continue paying for the servers and the bandwidth.

Nothing is more likely to drive people away from social media than trying to put a dollar value on it. None of them are worth paying for, not a single one.

I do pay for YouTube. I don't know if it's worth it, are ad blockers working well there these days?

Re: Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

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Post by EA-3167 »

sidibe wrote: post #23
EA-3167 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing is more likely to drive people away from social media than trying to put a dollar value on it. None of them are worth paying for, not a single one.

I do pay for YouTube. I don't know if it's worth it, are ad blockers working well there these days?

Is Youtube social media? I mean it has a comment section, but to me it's always been a content delivery service for videos, first and foremost.

Re: Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

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Post by x86x87 »

3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #7

Needless to say, with those limits, Twitter is basically unusable. I really doubt these ridiculous limitations can be explained just by a sudden urge to scrape. Why limit verified accounts, for example?

I am guessing twitter fucked around and now are in the finding out phase.

I bet some of their infra is crumbling under the stress of all bs Musk pulled.

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