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I refuse to believe that Twitter is so hammered by scrapers that it can’t even serve text content.
I absolutely love that the solution is to penalise users for engaging with the platform; looking at replies for one tweet must be, what, a hundred tweets? And better not reply to something yourself because it’ll cause a timeline refresh and cost you another hundred quota!
To those getting "Rate Limit Exceeded" or without an account, this is Elon Musk's tweet: To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: - Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day - Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day - New unverified accounts to 300/day
Events like this would be a perfect opportunity to grab users from Twitter. But they're not ready.
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?
I refuse to believe that Twitter is so hammered by scrapers that it can’t even serve text content.
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?
Because they could be compromised and used by a careless third-party?
I'm increasingly concerned that Bluesky has missed its moment. It got a ton of hype when it started rolling out invites, but that died down pretty quickly. Now it's been a couple months and they're still not open. Events like this would be a perfect opportunity to grab users from Twitter. But they're not ready.