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

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Post by stubybubs »

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.

I'm not really sure what she thought was going to happen. There is no way that Musk was going to stop making decisions, especially about content moderation, which is really the main concern of advertisers. If he wants it to be his kind of speech over the concerns of advertisers, that's what it's going to be, and she has no path to success.

I've heard Elon really seems like he's listening and that he's actually going to take advice. Yoel Roth actually believed that Elon was going to implement his trust and safety recommendations. Then he would go and tweet what he was actually going to do as soon as he was out of the meeting. At this point it's pretty well documented.

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Post by olalonde »

aquova wrote: post #257
olalonde wrote: post #247

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It doesn't feel like that to me. Elon reported that Twitter hit a new all time high of "user seconds" last week. Reddit usage doesn't seem to have gone down much. In my opinion, what you are really experiencing is wishful thinking.

It's going to be hard to continue hitting record highs if you're limiting how much of your content people are able to see.

That's probably why the limits are temporary.

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Post by LordAtlas »

housemusicfan wrote: post #91
user_named wrote: post #86

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I can't imagine someone scrolling as slowly as in your example. I'm certain I scroll at least 100 tweets/minute.

For 16 hours straight with no breaks? Your phone's battery would die before that was exceeded.

Twitter can also be used on the desktop.

I leave it running in a window while I do other things, and check in a few times a day. Thanks to Twitter product "development", the feed now auto-refreshes itself when you get back to it.

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Post by partiallypro »

seydor wrote: post #251
partiallypro wrote: post #191

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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…

I d say the opposite. Their headsets are great and affordable, but their obsession with making everything social is ... annoying at this point? They keep adding social stuff to the oculus, but why the hell would i want to be stalked while i m deep into another world wearing glasses. They need to quit their old habits and focus on the future not the past

The future in question is not profitable (yet, if at all anytime soon). Social media is and will be for a long time in competent hands. You can think that their VR stuff is cool but also know their core competency is good social experiences. You can hate Facebook and Instagram all you want but they are both very popular and profitable.

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Post by techwizrd »

dbish wrote: post #177
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?

I created a Mastodon account yesterday before I even knew about this and it was surprisingly easy and user-friendly. The big thing it's missing, for me, is a way to find the Mastodon accounts for people you follow on Twitter. If more of the AI/ML community switched to Mastodon, I wouldn't have any need for Twitter.

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Post by s3p »

TillE wrote: post #146
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?

Instagram doing a fediverse thing is a big deal, and makes me really optimistic about the future of ActivityPub. We don't have it all figured out just yet, but I do think we're going to see a decentralized future of social media, which is pretty exciting.

I want this to release so bad. It would be the most natural step for me having used Twitter for the last 10 years off and on. There's just a comedic aspect that I haven't found yet in other social media apps. Twitter was a really special place before Elon took over.
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