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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 anonymousab »

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.

To some extent she is also probably there to play the same "say yes to Elon about some dumb idea and then get the team to implement a somewhat less dumb version and convince him it was his idea all along" game with him that Tesla and SpaceX leadership reportedly does.

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Post by dopa42365 »

Semi related: it looks like twitter is currently winning the battle vs adblockers, which made me notice how every third or fourth post is a "promoted" advertisement. I guess it's the same (or even worse) in their mobile apps. There's no way that twitter isn't making money (A LOT) with 1/3 the site being ads? Especially with twitter being much less media heavy than other sites (very far from youtube or even twitch that can easily add up to tens or even hundreds of gigabytes of traffic every month just for myself).

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Post by rezonant »

housemusicfan wrote: post #202
dang wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Comments moved thither. Thanks! Edit: actually, since that source doesn't appear to have a paywall workaround at the moment, I'm going to merge the thread back hither.

https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=16751879694... You're welcome. Would be even better if HN would automatically rewrite Twitter links to use the current workaround. Especially if the point is to foster discussion here around a single comment, no need to load the whole application.

Yes, I for one will not be signing in to Twitter to view a tweet posted on HN, I will just move on.

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

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Post by esskay »

Tempest1981 wrote: post #223
pphysch wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah my limit hit after 20-25 minutes of total screen time. What a mess.

/s or not /s? 25 minutes seems like plenty to me. But I also have HN noprocrast enabled.

25 minutes is easy to hit when something is happening (be it a world event, sporting event, etc).

Case in point: I was watching the F1 sprint race this afternoon, taking part in a few discussions on Twitter about it as I always do. It took 10 minutes for my rate limit to come up, so thats me done on Twitter for the day, and advertisers not getting impressions.

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

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Post by suzzer99 »

cududa wrote: post #339
minimaxir wrote: post #322

Update from Elon: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675214274627530754 > Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400 for new unverified lolwut. Quoting a post from Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@maxkennerly/110640373859329500 > LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping," this is how you deal with a catastrophic loss of system capacity. > You limit data scraping by blocking th…

A cool so I get about 3 more minutes of looking at tweets My guess is he got rate limited himself after a few hours as a verified user so he’s already upping it

They probably have if (isElon) somewhere in the code to turn off rate limiting.

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

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Post by verytrivial »

This is so strange. Why on earth wouldn't you start with a randomly higher threshold for these apparently abusive use patterns then march them down over the next couple of days? You know, see if the magic smoke comes out. It's just .. weird. It's been down for half a day for me.
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