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

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Post by diegocg »

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?

The weirdest thing of this era is that we don't see the big players (eg. Google) trying to take advantage of this situation and create an alternative.

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

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Post by dbish »

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 wild. Used to checking it frequently which any social media company would love, but can’t even scroll the feed this morning as I hit the rate limit just drinking coffee and catching up. The good thing is this will make me spend far less time on social media since it was the last one I had on my phone.

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

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Post by user_named »

GaryNumanVevo wrote: post #124
TillE wrote: post #34

I'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.

Bluesky is great in comparison. Not sure it's going to ever be as big as Twitter, but it's a great alternative to Mastodon

So you're just posting to say you got an invite.

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

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Post by TX81Z »

minimaxir wrote: post #155
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

These people tend to hold on until right before their reputation is totally unsalvageable so they can relaunch their personal brand with a hero narrative.

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

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Post by folugna37 »

It has been absolutely hilarious watching the death of Twitter but also concerning because Twitter served (until this terrible decision) as an important tool for popular personalities and important local services or government officials to communicate with the general public or their audiences and without that, getting important information might become a little more difficult which concerns me.

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

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Post by dbish »

LordAtlas wrote: post #42

So 99% of accounts that are not verified are restricted to viewing max 600 tweets a day, which means if you do more than casually check Twitter once a day, you're fucked. No wonder everything is breaking. But that's OK. Twitter has a big engineering team that should be able to sort this out soon. Oh, wait...

Which Twitter replacement are people moving to (edit:looks like Bluesky if they can keep the servers up)?

I’m a big fan of Elon and what he’s built so I wasn’t planning on leaving, but can’t even use it now. Mastodon still seems too complicated to get the masses on. Where will non-tech folks go?

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

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Post by rsynnott »

HWR_14 wrote: post #68
epistasis wrote: post #56

If 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.

I doubt it's a reaction to him hurting internally. I think it's a consequence of being disconnected from the rest of the world. I think he thinks what he's doing is both right and popular, and in his bubble that's true. Leaving aside completely that one of the luxuries you can buy as a billionaire is that you can develop an impermeable bubble, I've seen lots of people do similar actions at a smaller scale.

It probably doesn’t help that he surrounds himself with these weird sycophants. I mean, Jason Calacanis! I’d completely forgotten he even existed. You cannot convince me that his involvement was for any other reason than he’s really into Musk.

And the bluetick-reply-promotion thing will only have reinforced that. Presumably the reason he’s so keen to encourage all this is some sort of inadequacy, so the “hurting inside” thing still kinda works, mind you.

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

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Post by granshaw »

diegocg wrote: post #171
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?

The weirdest thing of this era is that we don't see the big players (eg. Google) trying to take advantage of this situation and create an alternative.

Google and new products…

Hahahahahhhaha

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