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

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Post by olliej »

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.

Yaccarino was placed there simply so that when twitter does eventually go belly up Musk can go "it's her fault, I wasn't the CEO". I'm unsure why anyone thought/thinks she has any other purpose?

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

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Post by bardak »

throw2022110401 wrote: post #151
__jem wrote: post #39

Incredibly 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.

You would think that forced logins would have stopped a majority of the scraping. Even if it didn't the rate limit they have well below what would be needed to stop scrapers.

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

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Post by ummonk »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #296
ummonk wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flagged for linking to a tweet I can't view since you haven't written what it says

You're complaining that I didn't copy and paste the text of the tweet in my comment? In the time it took for you to decide to reply, write this comment, and submit it, you couldn't have clicked on a hyperlink? Elon's tweet speaks for itself--I'm not sure what kind of "gotcha" you're trying to play here.

There's no gotcha. My account hit the rate-limit hours ago and twitter is no longer viewable when logged out, so I literally cannot view what the tweet you linked to is saying...

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

mahimamanik wrote: post #217

I wonder if they made this decision because data said revenue from subscriptions from power users could be a lot more than ads. Reducing dependency on ads, reducing bots & creating their own LLM on top of twitter data may not be a bad idea.

Only if they are making up numbers. Ads are incredibly lucrative, and people don't like spending money.

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Post by rideontime »

stubybubs wrote: post #218
epistasis wrote: post #92

Interesting to imagine how a Mars colony might be run under this sort of leadership.

Exactly like in Total Recall when Cohaagen cuts off the air.

Non-verified colonists are now limited to 600 breaths per day.

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

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Post by rsynnott »

eterm wrote: post #242
rsynnott wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you use Twitter? Even at the best of times, you learn to flip though fairly quickly skimming over the nonsense, and since the ascension of naughty ol’ mr car bluetick replies get promoted to the front of the queue, so you have to scroll past a sea of bullshit to get to the real replies. Twitter with 600 tweets a day is clearly unusable. That’s one large thread, and you’ll scroll past most of it anyway.

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?

Oh, I’m essentially off it since naughty ol’ mr car took it over; it used to be better (though even then, there’s a reason it was affectionately known as the hellsite).
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