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

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Post by SushiHippie »

Freedom2 wrote: post #475
JadeNB wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All moderation is better when accompanied by descriptions of going hither and thither.

All? Even important service announcements or serious notifications? edit: why the downvotes? I'm simply trying to engage in curious discussion. Apologies, I'm neurodivergent and I can't often discern between humor or not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33768503

It is just that dang likes these words and uses them always when he moves comments from one post to another.

See: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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

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Post by kjkjadksj »

ajot wrote: post #559
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?

I would love for an RSS reader/HN/Reddit thing to exist. You could get you personal news on one side, and subs/communities whith two columns, one for news from sources curated by the admins/mods of the sub, and other column for news, links and text posts submittes by the users. You could only join by invitation, so as to make F2F social networks in self-hosted instances, or in a Discord-esque "server". I think the va…

You can already follow hn and reddit and youtube channels and tweets on rss

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

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Post by sumeno »

bassman9000 wrote: post #619
sumeno wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is it suddenly so costly only after Elon took over considering Twitter was borderline profitable before he took over?

it was never profitable

Wrong, they had net profits 15 out of 18 quarters from 2018-2022

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom...

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

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Post by optimalsolver »

dopa42365 wrote: post #395

Semi related: it looks like twitter is currently winning the battle vs adblockers, which made me notice how every third or fourth post is a "promoted" advertisement. I guess it's the same (or even worse) in their mobile apps. There's no way that twitter isn't making money (A LOT) with 1/3 the site being ads? Especially with twitter being much less media heavy than other sites (very far from youtube or even twitch tha…

Which adblocker are you using? I don't see any on UBlock Origin.

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

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Post by oska »

partiallypro wrote: post #244
loso wrote: post #130

I 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…

I don't think this is because of the "end of cheap money" (I don't think this high interest rate environment will last that long) but just sheer incompetence by Musk and his staff. Elon has become increasingly erratic on the platform, he just tweeted recently a reply to a Tweet saying Islam would take over France. I don't know if he's always been like this or if the stories of his heavy ketamine usage are true and ta…

> he just tweeted recently a reply to a Tweet saying Islam would take over France

Really should provide a source when stating things like this, as many will want to check out for themselves exactly what was said.

I went and found the tweet that I assume is being referenced. It's here :

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675205751902486529

Elon says "He is right". So he is referencing the Imam in the video of the tweet he is replying to (not the tweeter, who appears to be female). The video of the Imam's speech has subtitles, so you can see what Elon is saying 'is right'.

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

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Post by samtp »

JauntTrooper wrote: post #605
bb611 wrote: post #585

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

His offer was $54.20 in April 2022. That was a 38% premium to the market price immediately prior to his investment, which is attractive but not necessarily "always well above fair value" Twitter had traded above that price as recently as five months earlier, and had traded in the $60s and even $70s for most of 2021. Twitter's stock had cratered in early 2022 along with many other tech stocks (Facebook went from $330…

In what world is a 38% premium not well above market value? If you pay $1.38m for a $1m house, you are definitely paying well above market value.

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

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Post by paxys »

Beeeaans wrote: post #285

If feels weird that this is happening on the same day that Reddit is also limiting their API. Both are citing AI as a major reason for this. It’s suicidal for the platform, I think it’ll be reversed - in less than 24 hours probably. In the unlikely event it isn’t, there’s more to this. Wild conspiracy: OpenAI is about to open source their code. Sam Altman is on the board at Reddit and gave them a heads up, maybe Twit…

As always, follow the money. Yesterday was the last day of the financial quarter. Q3 reporting starts today. What better way to show that hockey stick graph to investors?

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

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Post by kvetching »

cldellow wrote: post #255
somenameforme wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds like they are facing a novel denial of service attack that was near to the point of being able to imperil their service. This is an obviously temporary remediation to keep the systems up, not a new policy for the site. And all of that falls right under the purview of the CTO.

Maybe. It's really hard for me to believe that a uniform 600 tweets read per _day_ limit for almost _all_ accounts is the best tool they have to mitigate a scraping attack. They likely have great insight into the risk profiles of each account based on age, size, past engagement. This is an incredibly coarse banhammer -- very close to just turning off the servers, IMO. Reasonable if it lasted for an hour, debatable if…

absolutely insane. indictment on the engineers for lack of creativity. Twitter has been completely inaccessible on my android app all day. I unknowingly used up my rate limit in my bed this morning. There has to be some other motive- possibly related to France protests. Macron announced that social media was to blame

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

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Post by goalieca »

zimpenfish wrote: post #382
bardak wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you actually looked at the balance sheet of twitter before Elon took it over it was quite possible to make it profitable. It would have needed to cut cost and probably try and to boost its ad platform a bit more but well within the realm of possibilities. With the debt that Elon has saddled them with I doubt they will ever be profitable again without declaring bankruptcy.

> it was quite possible to make it profitable Without the $760M settlement, they'd have made about $270M in 2021[1]. [1] "2021 operating loss of $493 million, or an operating margin of -10%, includes a one-time litigation-related net charge of $766 million" - https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twitter-announces-f...

Twitter never had a health P/E (Price/earning) ratio. 270M is great on a 2B company but terrible on a +40B company.
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