Elon has responded to the criticism and is increasing the limits to a whopping:
Verified accounts: 8000 posts/day
Unverified accounts: 800 posts/day
New unverified accounts: 400 posts/day
Ahh yes, killing your social media by limiting your request per user at a day. Genius. I know that data scrapping is a problem in any social media platform
There’s some interesting context:
In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company’s Google Cloud servers. Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract’s June 30th renewal date. Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google’s infrastructure before the contract expires, but the effort is “running behind schedule,” putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company acquired in 2018 to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline. Engadget, June 11, 2023
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Makes me wonder what gcp would to my resources if I stopped paying
Straight to jail.
Spot on mate.
THIS is what happened. I’d bet solid money on it.
Excuse me for a second.
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It’s funny because if he’s trying to reduce costs, letting people upload 2 hour videos probably costs far more than having your website be accessible to people not logged in LMAO
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Text feed are the lightest weight most cachable thing you can serve. The costliest part of the text component is the mixer that ranks the content. The companies scraping them don’t care about the ranking they just want bulk tweets. That’s what the API is for. Elon charged them insane rates so they all went off the API that cost Twitter a tiny fraction to serve and instead the API consumers switched to crawling the website instead, which costs Twitter orders of magnitude more, but is free for scrapers. Elon is indeed a stable genius.
Holy shit, I hadn’t stopped to realize your point there!!! Of course any AI scrapers would just start bit crawler accounts, if any of them weren’t already doing that as well. Along with any other info scrapers out there - I can only think of the one example tbh
Has he finally go completely insane? It feels like he wants to kill the platform for some reason
So people now can’t view Twitter without logging in, but once people are logged in, Twitter only lets them look at a limited number of tweets.
I’m not sure what sense there is for a social media company to keep telling consumers to stop consuming content. Has the Twitter infrastructure become that fragile? Are they running out of tweets? Whatever they are smoking at Twitter HQ they might want to give it a rest.
Don’t you want users to be on the platform as long as possible to maximize ad revenue? If this was just to force people to pay for verification, why wouldn’t they make that tier unlimited? I honestly can’t even believe this is real.
When you do the right thing for the wrong reason…
400 posts a day seems like a lot. Am I missing something here? Is a post a tweet?
Seems like a lot but the definition of “read” here means scrolled past. So about 10-15 minutes of scrolling and you’re out
Oh wow, yeah I missed the headline lol. I wasn’t sure when I read OP’s description if post meant like API post request or like posting a tweet. Turns out maybe neither? But yeah scrolling past a few hundred tweets will go by real fast.
People were expecting Twitter to go to shit because of bad moderation, but it turns out Elon is much better at adding infuriating features that drive people away in the first place.
It helps when he doesn’t pay the bills due as well and then is forced to do things like this
Someone is desperate to monetize lurkers. That seems like a self-defeating strategy.
He sees ‘em lurkin’
He’s hatin’, patrolin’
Tryin’ to catch them dirtyMy question is , What is smoking this guy??
Unverified and new unverified? Lol. What’s exactly “new” here?
A new account, presumably.
I had to look this up, couldn’t believe it. I’ve been pretty indifferent to Musk and Twitter…cause I’ve been always indifferent to Twitter, but this is crazy. As an example, my city’s police and bus services and others all use Twitter to send updates out. And I’m sure it’s the same for most places. And now they’ve essentially lost the ability to mass communicate with people, because they need to be able to reach everyone not just those with an account.
The problem is with your city’s public servants. Relying on something like Twitter was a huge mistake.
Until recently it was a great way to reach people in a way you can’t really do with any other platform.
But this day and age breaking TV broadcast doesn’t work for anyone under the age of 55 or so
Relying on a single service was a huge mistake. You can always diversify.
Sure, that’s easy to say. But name another free, publicly available, instant mass message delivery system they could also use?
Yeah exactly, and Twitter was the first of its kind. It was the platform to introduce @tagging usernames, hashtags, micro blogging and was very accessible. There are lots of other social media platforms, but none of them are like twitter with exception now of Mastodon, but even mastodon has a small barrier, twitter you visit an url and have access to all the content on that account immediately, just by visiting an url. This is fundamentally why it was adopted along side Facebook and not to replace it. It had a function, still does really, even tho it’s on fire.
Telegram, RSS, Email…
Take your pick
Why’d you get downvoted when those are good alternatives?
All require the audience to be signed up. Twitter allowed users to broadcast. But yes, they are certainly functional alternatives.
Usenet? It’s is still there, despite google’s attempts to absorb it.
Relying on a single service was a huge mistake. You can always diversify.
The US National Weather Service’s local offices (which each have their own Twitter handle) post Twitter updates for every watch and warning (thunderstorm, tornado, hurricane, you name it) they send out. Imagine if you couldn’t receive those updates or they couldn’t post them.
I used Twitter for all my local updates - from what’s happening at city hall to live traffic and weather updates.
What’s up with CEO’s messing with social media companies. Huffman and Musk seem to enjoy ruining good things :(
Yeah I don’t understand it.
I’m sure something else will come along, the public service sphere of Twitter is too important. What else can they do? Go back to sending out press statements and breaking news on the radio or TV? Something will come along and fill that gap.
My city sends text alerts, but even with that I worry about the elderly people that don’t have cell phones.
It’s a symptom of the end of cheap money. It’s fine to not turn a profit when the economy is bullish and there’s money sloshing around everywhere, but at some stage you have to justify your existence, especially when advertisers stop buying ads, which has been the case for a while
What’s up with CEO’s messing with social media companies
I have some theories but they all boil down to: They openly despise us commoners. Maybe this will prompt public services to take better care of their websites. It would be a welcoming change.
Kinda stupid that a local government funded institution relies on a service from a private company to send out notifications
Rabbits
Something tells me he is exempt from the limit, otherwise he’d hit it by 8am
