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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 throw2022110401 »

__jem wrote: post #39

Incredibly bizarre way to intentionally kill your app, even after all the other nonsense he's been doing. Even if I were willing to pay for something as cringe as verification, 6000 posts a day is laughable for an app like Twitter. I hit the rate limit on my "unverified" account in about 5 minutes. I've been waiting for $newApp to get enough users to be fun, and this only motivates me more to be the change I want to…

They are literally throwing away revenue with every denied impression. An act of desperation obviously. My take: they broke something and need to shed load to keep the site running. The "extreme scraping" thing is the usual Musk BS.

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Post by rsynnott »

ceejayoz wrote: post #129
__jem wrote: post #39

Incredibly bizarre way to intentionally kill your app, even after all the other nonsense he's been doing. Even if I were willing to pay for something as cringe as verification, 6000 posts a day is laughable for an app like Twitter. I hit the rate limit on my "unverified" account in about 5 minutes. I've been waiting for $newApp to get enough users to be fun, and this only motivates me more to be the change I want to…

This is the move that elevates “the Saudis funded this to kill Twitter” from silly conspiracy theory to maybe plausible.

Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by Elon’s incompetence.

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

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Post by housemusicfan »

greatwave1 wrote: post #115
housemusicfan wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I don't understand, are you actually reading 100 tweets/minute, or just endlessly scrolling through random data for thumb exercise?

When you make the good faith assumption that people are actually reading through the content, the numbers start to seem a bit more rational.

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Post by minimaxir »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #142
hoppyhoppy2 wrote: post #53

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552231

It’s notable that it’s Elon, not Yaccarino, making this announcement (and likely decision).

Yaccarino doesn't seem to be making the wide-sweeping announcements that Elon does.

Given that this outage and rate limiting may legit make Twitter's business infeasible, I change my prediction that Yaccarino will leave Twitter from within 3 months to within 3 weeks.

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Post by faefox »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #142
hoppyhoppy2 wrote: post #53

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552231

It’s notable that it’s Elon, not Yaccarino, making this announcement (and likely decision).

I always assumed Yaccarino was merely a figurehead installed in an effort to make Twitter more palatable to advertisers. Elon never stopped making policy pronouncements from his personal account despite nominally giving up the CEO title.

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Post by jacquesm »

tedunangst wrote: post #76

Can 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.

With the SNR of Twitter that would mean 100 bad tweets and maybe one good one.

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Post by Kye »

loso wrote: post #130

I knew the end of the cheap money era would cause some businesses to be exposed but wow. We are basically in the middle of watching someone flush 44 billion down the drain. I could understand if it was a 600 posting limit. But a 600 viewing limit? wow. For example, NBA free agency just started. There are types of trades & signings being talked about. Just looking at that information I'm going past the 600 limit in ab…

An account on an ESPN Mastodon instance that comes with and logs in with that Disney+/Hulu/ESPN bundle would probably be popular. Doesn't even have to federate.

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Post by olah_1 »

TillE wrote: post #146
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.

Their use of ActivityPub is just a way to quickly bootstrap social media functionality using time tested libraries. Just like they did with XMPP.
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