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No, every girl wants a pony, not a horse.
You need to Google Elon musk and horse
I learned back in the 90s you don't google horse videos without safe search on, so no, I won't be taking your suggestion ;-)
Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
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#442Reminder 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…
Was reading another thread about LLMs on HN yesterday (yeah, can't find which one, there's always soooo many) about how Elon was 'tricked' into funding the charity OpenAI before it pivoted into for-profit and he got no equity. And now this timely reminder that Elon was 'tricked' into buying Twitter too! Quite a record, and yet he is somehow still the world's richest person? I do enjoy him talking about rockets, though.
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#443this is news because its twitter because people love having the chance to say something bad about elon because the new cycle is just circular negativity lol see you next week when the site is back to normal
Possibly. It is definitely notable that a CEO of a web product of this scale made an announcement that is essentially saying "Either myself and or my employees don't actually know jack shit about how to run a large scale web product".
The problems he pointed out are the kind of things you hear in questions in a mid-level swe interview.
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#444Incredibly 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.
> literally throwing away revenue with every denied impression
Any estimates for how much?
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If Meta were smart, they'd immediately shift away from their Metaverse nonsense and use this as a massive opportunity to do things they are pretty good at (hate them or love them.) I know they are working on a Twitter competitor, but they need to find a way to help get the followers they once had back, if they were to switch. They could even ultimately challenge Reddit. I know that would not be an ideal outcome, but…
> They could even ultimately challenge Reddit. Frankly I feel Google would be more motivated to challenge Reddit. Since so many of Google’s search results go to Reddit, they might as well try to take over that part of the web rather than leaving it in the hands of mercurial leadership of Reddit. The only problem is possible retaliation from Reddit and potential antitrust problems if other similar sites feel threatene…
Google should be hyper-motivated, they just appear to be incapable of executing on anything social.
Surprised they aren’t visibly scrambling to get it done anyway though
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#447I 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…
FWIW I turned on notifications for Woj and Shams and I’m still getting them even though I’m rated limited too.
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/s or not /s? 25 minutes seems like plenty to me. But I also have HN noprocrast enabled.
25 minutes is nothing when a major event is happening. Like just last week, I was intensely following the Wagner Group rebellion minute-by-minute without sleeping. A limit would make it impossible to watch history unfold in real-time.
Conspiracy theory of the day: He knows about something big that is going to happen soon and the breakage is intentional.
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#449Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Meta were smart, they'd immediately shift away from their Metaverse nonsense and use this as a massive opportunity to do things they are pretty good at (hate them or love them.) I know they are working on a Twitter competitor, but they need to find a way to help get the followers they once had back, if they were to switch. They could even ultimately challenge Reddit. I know that would not be an ideal outcome, but…
If you think about it Google Groups could have been Reddit if presented in this way.
I mean Google Groups was just the colony of crustaceans living on the whale-fall of Usenet.
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#450This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying. In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right. The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to its…
> Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in. Hey, just as an FYI, this comment doesn't make any sense. Why would blocking people from viewing the TL on the home page cause Twitter more stress?
I think he was trying to say that the Frontend of the Twitter timeline is not aware of the new request limit, and when that limit is reached it just retries the request, as it would in a normal network error, and keeps in retrying resulting on DDOS.
But I don't believe on that because Twitter is a billion dollar company and that kind of mistake is dumb. So idk.