What did he even think the purpose of APIs were. Data scraping puts unnecessary load on servers only to scrape out majority of the content. It’s funny how he shoots himself in the leg and now complain.
After dropping third party support I only read more and more questionable decisions by Musk in the news.
Speaking as someone who never really plugged into Twitter much in the first place: the notion that tweets have any sort of real value and that putting caps on consuming them is a meaningful control measure is the funniest fucking thing. Like no doubt he I actually trying to ruin it, that’s happening. But this is clearly supposed to elicit some kind of reaction, and I just can’t imagine feeling like, “oh, no, this only 600?” 600 of what? Brainfarts? Serious ideas that, if they were written by serious people would be in a long form medium? It’s like saying “you can go to the grocery store but you can only buy 60 chew toys for your dog per day”. Like, okay, I wasn’t going to do that anyway and I think it’s funny that you thought I was going to, or that I’d care about this new limitation.
Well good thing there are alternatives out there that are growing like Bluesky and Mastadon
Anyone still on Twitter at this point is getting what they asked for. It’s like you drove past every “last restroom for X miles” sign, and now you’re in the middle of nowhere and have to piss.
It’s not cunning or malice. It’s hubris and incompetence.
Things like Reddit and Twitter are bad for billionaires. It makes it harder for them to exploit you when there is a public place to talk about their bullshit.
Didn’t twitter just default on a massive google cloud bill on the first of July? This is pure speculation, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the rate limiting is a direct consequence of them having to massively scale back infra because of getting kicked from Google cloud
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Anyone know the timeline for BLUESKY? ♥️
I think it’s important to remember that these companies DID NOT CREATE THIS DATA! They are protecting things that are not theirs.
just don’t look there. it’s not worth your attention.
This only makes sense when you understand that he’s intentionally trying to destroy Twitter.
The thing is he’s not trying to do that because he actually thinks he’s doing a good job.
“temporary”
