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To those who are blindly accepting this supposed reason, the answer is simple: engineering.
Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do pay for YouTube. I don't know if it's worth it, are ad blockers working well there these days?
Is Youtube social media? I mean it has a comment section, but to me it's always been a content delivery service for videos, first and foremost.
There are also far fewer creators/posters and far more value per post, especially when you consider that YouTube carries a lot of commercial content (music & music videos)
Would I pay for ad-free access to a giant catalogue of music (even though I can use an ad blocker) or to support talented people putting hours into composing and editing content I like? Sure, why not. Would I pay to see people's random short-form thoughts? Hell no.
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#103I'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.
Would be a pity if so, such a promising technology where you finally have a chance to own your content and connections
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#104Let's see what happens to twitters ad revenue when they reduce the V in CPV to 0.01% of what it was the day before.
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#105Sad week for the internet, both twitter and reddit gone to shit
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#106A 24 hour reset window for rate limits seems dumb for engagement. I ran out of rate limits on my non paid account in the early afternoon.
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#107Needless 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?
Verified accounts are limited to 6k tweets/day. Assume the average human is awake for 16 hours a day. That's 6.25 tweets/minute if you did literally nothing but scroll through twitter all day long for 16 hours straight. Please explain how that makes the site "unusable" unless of course you are a non-human bot scraping site content.
One correction: It’s tweets fetched via the API, not tweets actually viewed. An unattended open tab could easily bust the limit as twitter fetches more for your feed.
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#108Hopefully the data scrapers give up so that these restrictions can be lifted.
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#109This is great. Reading more than 600 posts a day is probably unhealthy anyway.
If only Twitter had a 1:0 signal-noise ratio.