Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site or faced difficulty and delays Saturday.
Elon and his righteous quest to kill Twitter.
And it’s good. Literally Don Quixote of our times.I just find it interesting how the fixation on API and things of that nature is happening all of a sudden across the different platforms.
You can say it’s Musk being Musk or Reddit setting up for their IPO, but a similar thing has been going on with instagram as well. They had rate limiting for a long time for those without accounts. Then back in May it started to get worse. At the same time they began banning/suspending accounts for merely just existing. The common theme was those accounts only had email attached to them.
It just seems there’s a real push to isolate things and Twitter and Instagram really want verification.
It’s not that interesting. There is an on going AI (llm) craze that requires participants to acquire huge amounts of “clean” data. Reddit and Twitter are platforms that can provide this. So why not cash on it? Also free money is no more so they are all looking to find ways to penny pinch.
That doesn’t explain it IMO. That data is already freely available and LLMs don’t need the latest data. So data scraping for AI makes up a miniscule amount of API usage.
I think it has more to do with inflation. Investors aren’t putting their money into risky tech companies as much, and so these companies (twitter, reddit, etc) have to prove they can be profitable for once, and they probably are going to fail to do this. It does mean we can’t have nice things for free anymore like API access.
I think it has to do with OpenAI. They launched the fastest growing app of all time. ChatGPT wouldn’t have been possible without massive amounts of scraping. Reddit and Twitter sees this, and feel like they’re owed a share of their success.
If someone can make a successful product by scraping Reddit and Twitter, they better pay for it. Especially considering each request costs money for Reddit and Twitter.
Just my guess.
its about the big datasets required to train systems to interact with and generate content as human beings… as usual, its a profit motive.
You can practically hear the money he spent burning in a pit out back.
lol, lmao even
Twitter finally shut down the API for 1st party apps /s
How’s firing almost all your IT staff working out for you, Elon?
“IT only costs money!”
First chasing away most advertisers, then requiring an account to even access this site, and now this… the Muskrat actively hates his userbase, doesn’t he?
Verified accounts seem to have much more access. He likes the ones who pay him.
What a fantastic idea!
-Huffman, right now pushing devs to roll it out onto Reddit also \s
If I thought there was a genius behind his actions and a plan, and given his past warnings and fears about AGI, I would almost think that he figured out Twitter was being mined for training for AI and decided he would do everything in his power to obtain the company and sabotage it so it couldn’t be used anymore. If I thought there was a genius mind there.
Reality is that this is what happens when software designed to work a certain way is suddenly switched over to doing things never planned , such as what happened with Reddit and all the subs that went private.
Elton Muskrat forgot to pay the bills again.
Didn’t give the billionaire my money so yeah it took like 10 minutes for me to get the rate exceeded message.
Breaking news: The US Navy detected the implosion of Twitter 3 days ago
And it’s worse than you think. While this is a “bug”, it is based on a feature that Elon is actively rolling out that will be rate limiting how many tweets you’re allowed to view in a day.
That seems to be where the current issue stems from, likely something where it’s looking at the amount you’ve read in the previous 24 hours.
spez already said he loves Elon… hello conspiracy!
I support Elon’s decision on this and hope it becomes permanent. That way, the exodus from Twitter can continue and reputable organizations will stop considering Twitter a valid platform.
300 posts, most of which are text are obviously too much traffic for a multi-billion dollar social media site.
This might make my dad reduce his Twitter usage, thanks Elon!
To be fair, I guess this helps people from doom scrolling. Thanks Elon, for getting people to touch grass instead of being glued to social media!
Wonder when cable news conglomerates are gonna limit my dad from doom scrolling fox news 🤔
Good thing you can’t do this on fedi platforms
From my understanding, the posts/day also includes any comments you load up. So, if you’re not careful with the more popular Tweets, you could be rate limited in a very quick manner.
Which would mean people won’t bother with popular tweets people are paying money for to get more views
💀 lol
This is mad, lol
So given Reddit’s CEO idolizes Musk and his ideas for Twitter, I wonder how long it’ll take for Reddit to adopt this.
So to combat system manipulation… he’s giving more power to users that can better manipulate the system.
People think this genius is going to give us colonies on Mars when all he’s successfully done is take credit for other people’s work, buy a platform for hate with investor’s money, and give Twitter investors a deeply painful colonoscopy.
Translation.
Fuck, we can’t pay our server costs.
I’d say reduce the limit to 600 for verified accounts and unverified to 60 and new accounts to 30.
The world will be a better place.Elon gonna Elon
fuck elon, fuck spez
lmao, this is fucking hilarious
I can’t believe I’m saying this but… based elon?
The feddiverse as a whole might be soon flooded with people tho, prepare yourselves, they comin’Making people unaddicted to twitter deliberately is definitely a W
He’s removed all of the features of Twitter at this point. It no longer is even the site it was created to be.
And I kinda don’t get it, Twitter is easy to embed and has good SEO, much like Reddit. Walling this up is the opposite of helpful.
Same with the rate limit. Interaction and posting is the heartblood of the website and what gives it value.
why care about helpfulness and community interaction and value when you can simply monetize every single aspect and run the community into the ground for the 💰💰💰
I’m new, still getting the ropes. Honestly I’ve seen more engagin comments in the last hour than I have on either Reddit or Twitter for the last week.
Right?? It’s weird… it’s both refreshing and nostalgic at the same time.
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I have definitely commented more in the fedverse in the last week than I have in the last year on Reddit.
This is a bad corporate speak that says, “Don’t scrape our data, consume through api and pay upto your necks”.
This is so stupid it’s barely believable. Like, he’s made some (many) bad moves, but this is literal platform suicide if it isn’t reversed immidiately.
this. I simply can’t use twitter right now. and some people were saying you can hit 600 tweets in just 15 mins of scrolling. which would basically kill my twitter use entirely. if it continues good chance I stop using twitter.
Strange that Facebook seems to be the only stable old player now.
Just a few years ago…even a year ago…I would have thought that was it, the internet has agglomerated around these few sites: Twitter, Facebook, Reddit.
And then do to mismanagement, the owners of these sites have created an opening for competition.
I’d never heard of Mastodon until Elon bought Twitter. I’d never heard I’d Lemmy of kbin until Spez decided to shut down the 3PAs.
These “innovators” are falling into the same traps of as the ghosts of the past. Napster existed because the record industry tries to stop the future, and stop the consumers from getting what they wanted.
It’s a new day for the internet.
To be fair kbin only released a few weeks before Spez announced the API changes.
I don’t understand the use of “to be fair” in this context… I don’t think OP was being unfair… I’m probably being pedantic or maybe not enough coffee yet…
