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

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Post by slawton3 »

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…

It's even funnier when Elon confirmed that scrolling through a tweet counts as a read.

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Post by summerlight »

This is going to hit their impression numbers really hard? And probably avg. CTR as well since most of those hardcore users will not be able to see most of tweets.

I guess Elon probably decided this something like "ok, 99% of those users are reading less than 300 tweets a day! If it's more than that, then those are all bots! Why don't we block them? It will save API cost a lot!"

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Post by hn_20591249 »

hugg wrote: post #140

Reducing the amount of time spent on the app will surely make advertisers happy!

Thinking about how both The Flash and Indiana Jones 5 are doing disastrously at the box office, and likely spent a lot of ad budget on Twitter that is now getting zero return. Can't imagine Disney and WB are going to be thrilled.

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

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Post by __jem »

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.

Instagram is also apparently building a Twitter-like app, which as much as I hate FB/IG, would probably convince me to switch into their ecosystem again.

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

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Post by TX81Z »

faefox wrote: post #156
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, but if he wakes up at three in the morning to go the bathroom who will make major decisions?

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

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Post by netsharc »

ummonk wrote: post #75

Steve 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.

Not sure I can believe Melon's reasoning, in any case he probably fired the team that can fight "DDoS'es", so, this is what we get.

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

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Post by amatwl »

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.

There was reporting that they were scrambling to move some infrastructure off Google since they were going to be cut off after refusing to pay their bills. The deadline was June 30, though there was additional reporting saying Linda Yaccarino restarted payments - https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-google-clo...

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

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Post by meepmorp »

faefox wrote: post #116
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

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?

And that's probably 6,000 tweets loaded via API, not 6,000 that you might care about. Don't they promote and show you posts from blue checkmark people even if you're not following them?
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