Twitter C/D

I'll be really shocked if this causes a significant increase in paid accounts

Hahah anything but.

recall him and his cronies talking on there before he bought it how a paid subscription is a no brainer, they were all saying "yeah id pay 10 dollars a month to be able to write long posts" and so forth, lol

I don’t know how they count this — is he counting tweets and replies or just tweets? Even if the latter, it seems like among other things he’s penalizing the blue checks because it’s severely limiting the number of people they can reach with their prioritized tweets.

Feel like admitting there’s a read limit on blue ticks was a bad idea too

We wanted to understand why Elon Musk’s plan to severely engagement on Twitter makes sense for Twitter’s bottom line. So we talked to three unvaccinated RFK Jr. supporters at a Tesla charging station in Menlo Park.

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) July 1, 2023

losing my mind if this is actually the explanation. choosing to believe this as it is the funniest and simplest answer pic.twitter.com/1bG7WdmA0Q

— yuuko from nichijou (@headfallsoff) July 1, 2023

haaa

Can someone explain what it is because I cannot see it lmao

https://i.imgur.com/35s1S2B.png

the extreme levels of data-scraing are coming from inside the house

As someone who loves twitter I have to say it's delicious

wait so I just can’t read twitter for the rest of the day now?

who knows

600 is like a couple of hours posting (in my TL) on a regular day.

This.

i know we all love goofin' around on here, but i am once again absolutely fucking gutted by the imminent loss of an irreplaceable archive of first person accounts of little moments in history. losing the ability to search the online landfill for these artifacts is devastating.

— molly conger (@socialistdogmom) July 1, 2023

I am not gutted though, but it's a loss.

otm, also its funny

another good one if he wants to live the realness life

https://i.ibb.co/y0h3f0S/Screen-Shot-2023-07-01-at-2-38-27-PM.png

oops wrong thread

Just love how I have to scroll through adverts as part of my 600

lol bluesky is down too, prob from people going on there to complain that twitters down

or at least its very slow

Does it again

The lurkers are in my thoughts today.

— Don Hughes (@getfiscal) July 1, 2023

Bluesky, Mastodon...don't care just let me post!!

https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3jzi55ro3d72k

I've been using it for a bit and it's pretty good (I'm @allen).

Invite codes:

bsky-social-vc3gm-tednt
bsky-social-pd6a6-stq62
bsky-social-l2a3b-ddey7
bsky-social-rw4mu-zmmha

Cool just got a code off a mutual. Will join next week.

Reckon this stupidity will be reversed but wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't

not sure if i said this upthread but i suspect musk is just pretending with the new rate rules to cover for whats actually just a bug

im blueskyd thx allen ❤️

yes, same, thanks allen! that said, it's so slow that right now I can't seem to follow anyone lol

“Paid accounts can only use the website for 1 hour per day. Everyone else 7 minutes” is really something pic.twitter.com/s3HML7phzD

— worms cited (@christapeterso) July 1, 2023

[checks calendar] lol, lmao, they cut him off pic.twitter.com/A1ZxJufaVt

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) July 1, 2023

ha

i like that there's three unrelated dumb reasons and theyre all true

im @dubdobdee.bsky.social btw

time for no one to follow me

Saying I exceeded my limit but I can still see some tweets, like this one.

this is beyond incredibly dangerous on a day where we will use this account to try and distribute life saving information to the public #ThanksElon #RateLimitExceeded pic.twitter.com/5cC1NzkPp8

— Jonathan Marcus (@JonathanMMarcus) July 1, 2023

tbf, in the browser, the timeline is returning a 429.

im @dubdobdee.bsky.social btw

time for no one to follow me

― mark s, Saturday, July 1, 2023 4:05 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I followed you immediately! I even followed Joe.

Oops. They are now having cascading failures. Rate limiting was clearly unintentional.

I can’t believe I still overestimate this dude.

probably not a good sign pic.twitter.com/TZFSOqU2Cg

— Kenny Keil (@kennykeil) July 1, 2023

I even followed Joe.

― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, July 1, 2023 4:23 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

😤

yeah it’s not lookin good, decent chance that my last tweet is tweeting “I need a sugar daddy” at some bluecheck dipshit who insists that Musk has vastly improved the Twitter experience.

Shocked the limiting announcement didn't include 'blue checks don't count against views' - like, an actual reason for people (who want their posts seen) to subscribe to Twitter Blue instead of a measure that actively diminishes how often they're seen?

Oh right, makes sense

Forbes is both informative and sassy: Musky forgot to pay the data bill. 🙄 pic.twitter.com/gDjTMYzjgs

— Movies Silently 🐀 (@MoviesSilently) July 1, 2023

Fwiw I think the google bill is unlikely to be the culprit. They use google cloud for some internal systems. Twitter dot com runs on prem.

Unexpected behavior or bugs triggered by truly massive changes to the api being shipped on a holiday weekend seems more likely https://waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug-causes-self-ddos-possibly-causing-elon-musks-emergency-blocks-and-rate-limits-its-amateur-hour/

its a very silly idea that web scrapping no matter how EXTREME could constitute a significant portion of a huge site like twitters traffic