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

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Post by __jem »

HL33tibCe7 wrote: post #41
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.

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?

In fact, I'd be more likely to pay money to never see a verified post ever again.

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

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Post by ethanbond »

nperez wrote: post #17
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #15

I refuse to believe that Twitter is so hammered by scrapers that it can’t even serve text content.

I don't think it's about servers getting hammered so much as it's about AI causing them to rethink the value of their data, then deciding user hostility is the best way to extract said value

Or just another stick to try to get people to pay. It’s like watching a precocious 7th grader play product manager.

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

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Post by TillE »

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.

I think a ton of users will hit 600 "posts read" really quickly, if that's what they're measuring.

Refresh your timeline, load 20 new tweets. Tap a tweet, load 10 replies, etc.

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

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Post by rideontime »

mackie342red wrote: post #38
sylware wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because they could be compromised and used by a careless third-party?

Why would Twitter's new verification system be compromised?

There’s nothing to “compromise.” Being generous and accepting that this is meant to deter scrapers, a scraper could simply pay their eight bucks to avoid the rate limit.

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

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Post by epistasis »

If Musk had shut down the site completely, he could have had the same effect without looking like he was completely incompetent.

Pretty odd to see somebody burn up all their public goodwill, at the cost of billions of dollars. The man must be hurting internally, there's no other explanation for such self destructive behavior.

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

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Post by redsaber »

misnome wrote: post #31
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #15

I refuse to believe that Twitter is so hammered by scrapers that it can’t even serve text content.

Yeah, it sounds like bullshit, even before you notice who is saying it. 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!

if they penalize users, how they're going to get more data from the said users to sell.
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