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

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Post by housemusicfan »

user_named wrote: post #86
housemusicfan wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

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

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Post by partiallypro »

TillE wrote: post #34

I'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.

Didn't help that Jack jumped ship back to Twitter

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

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Post by ummonk »

housemusicfan wrote: post #74
3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #7

Needless 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.

With a more normal 100 tweets viewed per minute, a verified user would hit the limit in an hour, which is quite low for the kind of power user that would purchase twitter blue.

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

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Post by michilehr »

ezoe wrote: post #16

600 posts/day... seriously? I'll exceed that limit in 10 minutes(I probably browse tweets like 1 post/second in my native language, Japanese).

Actually it seems to be 900 detail views. So it is 15 minutes.

Response headers for me:

X-Rate-Limit-Limit: 900 X-Rate-Limit-Remaining: 0 X-Rate-Limit-Reset: 1688318503

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

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Post by pphysch »

housemusicfan wrote: post #74
3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #7

Needless 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.

6.25 tweets/minute is nothing. The feed generates a ton of junk (ads, redundant QTs, straight up noise) so there are certainly periods where I will scroll past 6 junk tweets in 1-2 seconds.
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