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I can't imagine someone scrolling as slowly as in your example. I'm certain I scroll at least 100 tweets/minute.
For 16 hours straight with no breaks? Your phone's battery would die before that was exceeded.
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I can't imagine someone scrolling as slowly as in your example. I'm certain I scroll at least 100 tweets/minute.
For 16 hours straight with no breaks? Your phone's battery would die before that was exceeded.
At 100 tweets/minute they would reach the limit in an hour, wouldn't they?
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#113This is just insane. He really wanna take this app to zero users. Can't believe there exists people who think Elon is smart.
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#114If 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.
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I can't imagine someone scrolling as slowly as in your example. I'm certain I scroll at least 100 tweets/minute.
For 16 hours straight with no breaks? Your phone's battery would die before that was exceeded.
16 hours? If you're scrolling 100 tweets/min, you'd hit the unverified user limit within 6 minutes, and the verified user limit within an hour
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#116To 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
The fact that even paid subscribers are limited to 6000 posts a day (seems like a lot, very much isn't if you're a remotely active user) is utterly bonkers. What other platform works like this?
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#117It really feels like we're witnessing the end of an era. Elon is doggedly piloting Twitter into the ground and Reddit seems strangely compelled to follow his lead. Reddit may recover - I'm not so sure about Twitter. What technologies will take their place? In a time where it's never been easier to stand up your own website/forum/what have you, could we possibly see a gradual return to a pre-corporate Internet?
It’ll probably get worse if anything
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#118All these Twitter Blue subscribers who thought they could buy views and engagement must be thrilled that they're now competing for a very limited resource
My first thought on reading this was: "I'm going to unfollow some high volume posters in that case", so they will lose some followers too.
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#119Steve 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.
If users can't use the platform, there's no data to scrape. Scraping problem fixed. This is a 4D chess move.
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#120This is actually pretty disastrous.
Right now people are logging onto Twitter to catch up on events in France...and it's not working.
I never believed that the exodus of users after the takeover would be terminal for the platform, but this definitely could be if they don't fix it fairly quickly.