Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

Post by dylan604 » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 7:22 PM UTC

dogecoinbase wrote: post #289

somenameforme wrote: post #184

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It sounds like they are facing a novel denial of service attack that was near to the point of being able to imperil their service. This is an obviously temporary remediation to keep the systems up, not a new policy for the site. And all of that falls right under the purview of the CTO.

They are, but it's self-inflicted: https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639474671754723 > Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.

Post by SamReidHughes » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 7:22 PM UTC

user_named wrote: post #293

Reminder that Elon didn't even intend to buy Twitter He wanted to sell ~$2.5 Billion Tesla stock at all-time highs without causing the stock price to significantly deflate, so he used the Twitter purchase suggestion as a cover. He did similar pump and dump schemes with crypto - like Dogecoin - but because Elon is fundamentally a dumb guy, he did the extraordinarily stupid thing of signing a purchase agreement with Tw…

Post by yodsanklai » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 7:24 PM UTC

SoftTalker wrote: post #291

eterm wrote: post #242

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I don't use Twitter. (Or haven't since ~2006). That sounds like a miserable user experience in general, what compels you to seek out that experience?

I don't use twitter either but I guess it's the same reason many of us come here. We find it interesting and/or entertaining. I know I've had days where I killed hours on HN. I try to avoid it, but still probably spend more time here than I get in compensating benefit. Very little of what is discussed here is really important in a significant way if you take a step back and evaluate it honestly.

Post by ozymandias8 » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 7:25 PM UTC

arthur2e5 wrote: post #282

sumeno wrote: post #240

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In general yes, but Twitter was borderline profitable before Musk took over and saddled them with insurmountable debt payments and decisions alienating advertisers and users. Twitters current issues are entirely the creation of Elon Musk.

Blue sales ultimately can't hope to come close to what big brand ads used to give. And ironically enough, blue currently works as a crappy version of advertising thanks to the reply ranking. The promises of prioritizing "high-quality content" never came true; all we see are mid takes and, if you speak Mandarin, AI-powered sex scambots. Well, worse for us plebs. Not sure if it's worse for the buyers.

Post by riffraff » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 7:25 PM UTC

anonymousab wrote: post #391

faefox wrote: post #156

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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.