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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 HL33tibCe7 »

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.

Think about the Twitter Blue users you’ve seen on Twitter before this.

Who on Earth would want to pay $8/month to join a site where you can effectively only interact with that kind of person?

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

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Post by LordAtlas »

So 99% of accounts that are not verified are restricted to viewing max 600 tweets a day, which means if you do more than casually check Twitter once a day, you're fucked. No wonder everything is breaking.

But that's OK. Twitter has a big engineering team that should be able to sort this out soon. Oh, wait...

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

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Post by __jem »

TillE wrote: post #34

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.

The site seems like its creaking under the strain of everyone checking it right now.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

minimaxir wrote: post #32
madars wrote: post #4

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

From comments and personal experience, it is incredibly likely Elon screwed up the rollout and the "600 posts/day" isn't accurate and is triggering much, much sooner than expected.

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

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Post by matsemann »

madars wrote: post #4

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

I've been busy all day, and when I just opened the app I instantly got "cannot retrieve tweets at this time". No way I've reached 600 or 6000 posts. Got it from the first tweet I tried viewing.
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