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

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Post by rsynnott »

housemusicfan wrote: post #74
3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #7

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?

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.

Do you use Twitter? Even at the best of times, you learn to flip though fairly quickly skimming over the nonsense, and since the ascension of naughty ol’ mr car bluetick replies get promoted to the front of the queue, so you have to scroll past a sea of bullshit to get to the real replies.

Twitter with 600 tweets a day is clearly unusable. That’s one large thread, and you’ll scroll past most of it anyway.

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

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Post by jljljl »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #93

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Twitter managed to withstand high load and scrapers before. Did this suddenly get significantly worse? Is it bad enough that caching or engineering solutions couldn't address the problem?

One reason it _could_ get worse is because Twitter effectively disabled and paywalled their API, which many of these groups could use instead of scraping

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

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Post by netsharc »

x86x87 wrote: post #29
3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #7

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?

I am guessing twitter fucked around and now are in the finding out phase. I bet some of their infra is crumbling under the stress of all bs Musk pulled.

I read that they've resumed paying Google for their cloud infra... maybe Melon just paid for some low tier and he's yelling at his engineers and they're desperately trying to not hit the limits of those resources.

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

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Post by TillE »

faefox wrote: post #85

It 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?

Instagram doing a fediverse thing is a big deal, and makes me really optimistic about the future of ActivityPub. We don't have it all figured out just yet, but I do think we're going to see a decentralized future of social media, which is pretty exciting.

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

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Post by jacquesm »

HL33tibCe7 wrote: post #117
faefox wrote: post #85

It 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

I'm all for a complete reboot of a 100% non-commercial version of the web.

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

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Post by x86x87 »

victorbjorklund wrote: post #113

This is just insane. He really wanna take this app to zero users. Can't believe there exists people who think Elon is smart.

People are not unidimensional creatures. It's possible to be smart when it comes to certain things and a complete dumbass for ALL other things.
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