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

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Post by squarefoot »

ryandrake wrote: post #458
anonymousab wrote: post #391

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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.

I’ve always wondered what it’s like to work for a CEO where you simultaneously 1. can’t say no to him, and 2. can’t implement their hairbrained ideas without killing your product and then being blamed for it. I heard a rumor (who knows if it’s true) that in the early-ish days of Amazon, they had an entirely separate backend and frontend just for Bezos that would only display if his account was logged in. So when he a…

Regarding 1st sentence, leave. Or, if you really want to keep working there, you collect what you can for a while, then leave before the product tanks and your name could be associated with it. Musk has his own reality distortion field (tm) protecting him from any PR backlash, his employees don't.

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

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Post by lovvtide »

bentcorner wrote: post #568
lovvtide wrote: post #544

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Don't forget about Nostr, which has seen an absolutely incredible amount of development over the last 6 months. Damus (ios) - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/damus/id1628663131 Amethyst (android) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitorpampl... Satellite (web) - https://satellite.earth Primal (web) - https://primal.net Iris (web) - https://iris.to Snort (web) - https://snort.social Coracle (web) - http…

I've used Nostr a handful of times and am impressed with how responsive the network appears to be. But the problem I have with it is that the default feed (or whatever its called) is chock full of crypto nonsense. Terrible first impression. I made a test post and was immediately pinged by two crypto bots. Yeah no thanks.

That's a fair point, and most of the people on nostr are aware of the need to diversify. In fact, as of last week you can create Reddit-like sub-communities on nostr with rules like "no crypto content" which should help a lot.

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

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Post by werid »

while rate limited i could still view tweets that was sent to my phone via the notification feature. i have it turned on for a few users, so these weren't tweets sent at me.

now i'm just waiting for Huffman to do something similar on reddit. he could get rid of some of those moderators he dislikes by charging to be a moderator. also, to access to nsfw subreddits.

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

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Post by CPLX »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #315
stubybubs wrote: post #261

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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…

> not really sure what she thought was going to happen Fat severance package, a post-termination book deal and international name recognition?

He’s got a conspicuous habit of not paying people severance even when legally obligated to.

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

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Post by bb611 »

jdminhbg wrote: post #469
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…

This is some pretty dumb mental gymnastics to retcon a motivation. The simple explanation: he made an offer for Twitter, then the market (and Twitter’s value) crashed, and he tried to avoid paying the now-vastly overpriced fee he was on the hook for.

His offer was always well above fair value, which is why Twitter's board took him to court to enforce it.

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

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Post by WJW »

mjg59 wrote: post #479
dylan604 wrote: post #441

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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 ;-)

https://elon.horse has the details (I swear this is legitimate)

I took a wild gamble on this and it indeed has the details. Fairly NSFW too.

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

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Post by WJW »

ryandrake wrote: post #458
anonymousab wrote: post #391

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I’ve always wondered what it’s like to work for a CEO where you simultaneously 1. can’t say no to him, and 2. can’t implement their hairbrained ideas without killing your product and then being blamed for it. I heard a rumor (who knows if it’s true) that in the early-ish days of Amazon, they had an entirely separate backend and frontend just for Bezos that would only display if his account was logged in. So when he a…

Honestly this is how many of the cultures higher up on the authoritarian scale operate. You say yes to your higher-up no matter what they ask, then depending on whether or not it's actually a good idea you may or may not do it.

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

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Post by raverbashing »

tiedieconderoga wrote: post #519
user_named wrote: post #230

This 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…

You'd think they would at least throw in an exponential backoff. Here, I'll help. to = 2; while (!request(timeout=to)) { to *= 2; } I'm available for a 6-week contract. $1M plus a ride in a Dragon capsule, cash up front.

My guess is that the frontend person responsible got fired

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

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Post by phpisthebest »

troupo wrote: post #573
phpisthebest wrote: post #547

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>>I don't think this is because of the "end of cheap money" Explain just about all platforms doing revenue adjusting user hostile actions then? Examples include Reddit with the API fees, YT with the Ad Blocking blocking. etc This is all a reaction to the end of cheap money, aka the cost of capital is going up, so companies need to actually make revenue instead of chasing free capital >>I don't think this high interes…

> Explain just about all platforms doing revenue adjusting user hostile actions then? Examples include Reddit with the API fees Bad example. Reddit actions (and Twitter actions) are definitely not due any user hostile actions. > YT with the Ad Blocking blocking. This one may be has some merit to it, but we only have Google's word for it, and Google itself doesn't seem to be hurting because of all the bad-no-good ad b…

>Bad example. Reddit actions (and Twitter actions) are definitely not due any user hostile actions.

The actions are hostile to the users.. Twitter, Reddit, and YT (and others) have changed policies in a way to maximum revenue at the expensive of the users of the platforms.

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

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Post by bemusedthrow75 »

vjjsejj wrote: post #564
valval wrote: post #461

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I’d bet good money on you being wrong. Want to do $1k? We can use a trusted middleman and perform deposits or whatnot.

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