Twitter C/D

site seems to be down again

oops

it never goes down for me :(

https://i.imgur.com/GsWD8mB.png

minor complaint compared to everything else, but I hate how it's now "What is happening?!" - I am very rarely in a "?!" mood.

yeah, currently won't load for my main account where I follow 4,000+, but the timeline for my alt where I follow 75 is working fine.

https://i.imgur.com/kHMPWKg.png

Terry Funk

notifications working, timeline intermittent

it was Terry Funk's 79th birthday

this was a weird way to hear that Droz passed.

happy birthday terry :|

one thing is sure in life, eventually the rate limit comes for us all

of my two accounts one is fine, the other is "rate-limited".

However, I just googled "can't view twitter without account" and found records of people complaining about this problem in the pre-Musk days as well. Not that I don't blame Musk for this instance, but Twitter's jankiness does precede him.

you could at least view a tweet you were linked to!!!! now it's completely walled off, which is good, fuck twitter

So weird. Couldn’t see any activity with my most active account, saw this thread and surmised it could be cause I blocked too many blue checks. That sucks cause the main appeal of the site now is as a game where I try to block as many as possible.

So I tried to log in with an alt account, I could see the feed but the account is locked for breaking rules (your guess is as good as mine regarding which rule they may have arbitrarily enforced this time). But immediately after logging in with the alt account I went back to my main account and it’s now showing the feed. This is a real spit-and-duct-tape situation isn’t it.

Haven’t heard much of BlueSky lately. Another flash in the pan?

its pretty active over there idk def not dead yet

it will only heat up when im invited

what lol he cannot be serious

To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:

- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023

been fun folks

banned for the crime of reading

lol what a joke

are we lead to believe that it costs twitter more to serve a tweet than they make in ad revenue on that tweet

mb hes just making stuff up to cover for the down time

is that 600 unique tweets, or does the same 60 seen 10 times in a day count as 600?

i can read stuff w/my little account that i don't use much, viz that there is a #francehasfallen hashtag trending which is i imagine mostly super-racist 👎🏽

my main account is stuck on "retry"

notifications is working but you can't click thru to a conversation you just get the reply tweet and a flickering blue circle like it's trying to keep up but can't

time for elon to go look at some titanic wreckage in a carbon-titanium tube

france has fallen, long live france

"Not able to look into it"

It's even crashing Bluesky because clearly everyone is running over there in a heap. (Mastodon is still bopping along.)

This plus requiring people to have an account to view posts seems completely untenable. Why purposefully drive down views across the board?

hes trying to get people to buy twitter blue, which is so dumb, the paid base for this kind of service is always going to be a small percentage of of the total users, which means you should be trying to increase the total users, not decrease them

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