lol, I created an account yesterday after it went into authenticated only mode and was hit by rate limiting after like 3 minutes - gg elon
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#72I'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.
Where is the bluesky site? I tried to find it recently and ended up on the app store where I saw that I needed an invite to join, and then I closed it and never came back.
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#73So when's that first billion-dollar-per-year payment due?
Just trying to calculate the number of years before twitter becomes myspace.
Two? Three?
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#74Needless 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?
Verified accounts are limited to 6k tweets/day. Assume the average human is awake for 16 hours a day. That's 6.25 tweets/minute if you did literally nothing but scroll through twitter all day long for 16 hours straight. Please explain how that makes the site "unusable" unless of course you are a non-human bot scraping site content.
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#75Steve Huffman and Elon Musk both seem to be so mad about scraping (especially for ML training) that they're willing to make the user experience vastly worse for their users in pursuit of preventing scraping.
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#76Can I get a refund for tweets that I didn't want to see so I'm not locked out? If viewing a bad tweet means I can't view a good tweet, that seems unlikely to increase my unregretted minutes.
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#77[flagged]
The "rrrreeeee" is coming from inside the headquarters of Twitter...
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#78If this stays around that's Twitter dead and buried as a product.
Re: Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
#79Needless 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?
Verified accounts are limited to 6k tweets/day. Assume the average human is awake for 16 hours a day. That's 6.25 tweets/minute if you did literally nothing but scroll through twitter all day long for 16 hours straight. Please explain how that makes the site "unusable" unless of course you are a non-human bot scraping site content.
I hit the 600 post limit in about an hour, so how they're counting that seems kind of suspect. There are dozens of tweets you may scroll past or comments you may load for any one that you care about.
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#80This is great. Reading more than 600 posts a day is probably unhealthy anyway.