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David GerardThis. You can tell that this is precisely how Elon fucked it. And this limiting code turned out to have the self-DDOS in it.
600 posts/day. That's like, STOP READING TWITTER AT ALL
CocaineCentaur@davidgerard "extreme levels of data scraping" = calling out twitter on their exaggerated engagement reporting. so transparent lmao
Teal Amore@davidgerard so if you make a viral post, you can't see all the replies to your post? smart
@theelectricteal so you see "trending" and you click on it? GOODBYE TWEET ALLOWANCE
Stephen Farrugia@davidgerard “we’re gonna wean you off your addiction unless you start paying for it”
@fasterandworse mastodon as methadone
@davidgerard brilliant. We’re the zombies outside the clinic after our treatment
msgbi Markus Sagebiel
pedestrian cyclist@fasterandworse @davidgerard It worked for online newspapers, it can work for Twitter!
(Getting off...)
(Getting off...)
batlock666@davidgerard And Twitter is supposed to be the "everything" app.
Darwin Woodka@davidgerard have fun losing that last 20 bil, Elon
@darwinwoodka yknow i'm getting the idea that Elon isn't all the genius he put himself forward as
I'm a different bird@davidgerard he truly doesn't understand how his own site works, does he?
Matthew Daly@ImADifferentBird @davidgerard I think he grossly undervalued the community and overvalued the platform when he bought it. The value was always in the community and he's driving them away en masse
@matthewbdaly @ImADifferentBird it's important to note that Bluesky has the same problem. they have an AWESOME community but the rationalist cryptobros running it still think anyone gives a hoot about their white paper
Glitch (over count 1999)@matthewbdaly @ImADifferentBird @davidgerard i don't even think he cared about the community or the value of the platform.
the goal always seems to have been to try and turn Twitter into a diet 8chan. really, the scamming is just another component of this diet. the difference between Jim Watkins and Musk as your sysadmin is less large than one would like to imagine.
the goal always seems to have been to try and turn Twitter into a diet 8chan. really, the scamming is just another component of this diet. the difference between Jim Watkins and Musk as your sysadmin is less large than one would like to imagine.
@glitch @davidgerard @ImADifferentBird Yeah, it does feel like part of the motivation could be to convert it into Parler, but with an established audience giving it a big enough presence that third parties might be more reluctant to avoid doing business with them. So remaining a part of that audience was really starting to feel like I was legitimising it
@matthewbdaly @davidgerard @ImADifferentBird honestly it's at least interesting to observe how quickly that is changing.
these kinds of API caps will utterly kill that DAU statistic that Musk is so proud about having and it'll only make it easier for those third parties to ditch Twitter.
these kinds of API caps will utterly kill that DAU statistic that Musk is so proud about having and it'll only make it easier for those third parties to ditch Twitter.
@glitch @ImADifferentBird @matthewbdaly musk never had a goal. he bought it and regretted it immediately. he only went through with it because he couldn't weasel out of it.
musk has no plan. there is no 12-D chess happening here. he is just a fucking idiot.
@davidgerard @ImADifferentBird @matthewbdaly oh certainly, but that initial motivation was literally just because the right wing commentators he was listening to kept bitching about twitter banning them for being racist.
right now there's no plan outside of "don't go bankrupt", which im pretty sure could still easily happen once the people he owes debts to just cancel the contracts and go after him in court.
right now there's no plan outside of "don't go bankrupt", which im pretty sure could still easily happen once the people he owes debts to just cancel the contracts and go after him in court.
Ashen@davidgerard on the plus side, this is finally the kick I needed to transition over to mastodon (after seeing your post on Twitter you were my first follow)
@ashen @davidgerard I have been on here for a while and deleted the app, but kept on finding myself looking back at the birdsite. I think this is probably going to be the critical point where I abandon it - I have logged out and don't plan to log in again
AlexEdwards@davidgerard At least twitter isn't dependent on advertisers who need people to read as many tweets as possible!
Jef Poskanzer@davidgerard
- The official language of Twitter will be Swedish.
- In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour.
- Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check.
- The official language of Twitter will be Swedish.
- In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour.
- Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check.
@jef
- Comedy is, however, now legal
- Comedy is, however, now legal
Elias Mårtenson@jef @davidgerard I speak Swedish. Does that mean I have to start using Twitter?
Twenty Twenty Sixhorns@davidgerard I have to wonder if the ads count against these limits, too.
Imagine probably yes.
Pax Ahimsa GethenWill he just blame this on the new CEO (Linda Yaccarino)? If she's tweeted anything about this mess, I can't read it...
Niko@davidgerard And then deployed on a Friday night or Saturday morning? Just before 4th of July?
Just wat
@xou lol holy shit that bit hadn't even occurred to me
Nick Stevens GraphicsAnd I thought the lady's front bottom in chief had supposedly stepped back from running Twitter?
John@davidgerard this is what it looks like when the government wants Twitter down, but sneaky.
@JohnGrahamIV Elon Musk, Secret Statist
GuyWithLag@davidgerard I find it hilarious and an indication of how involved the CEO is - he's using `posts` instead of `tweets`.
That may be small potatoes to most people, but it's a significant indicator - CEO can't even be bothered to ensure everyone is on the same page. (and spare me the "but it's a startup/fast-changing/whatever environment" apologism, this is management 101).
Unless of course, Twitter has pivoted to use "Posts" consistently in their outward communications.
FWIW Musk isn't the CEO anymore; Linda Yaccarino is as of June 5.
@funcrunch @GuyWithLag yes, he's only the CEO in function now and not in title
Kaui@davidgerard istg twitter has been cursed ever since elon took over it
Steve Loughran@davidgerard
1. The "scroll through app-web UI" feed may count differently from the "resolve individual tweer URL"
2. Can't see advertisers being happy.
1. The "scroll through app-web UI" feed may count differently from the "resolve individual tweer URL"
2. Can't see advertisers being happy.
Wiesel 🐅 🔜 MFF, NFC@davidgerard Reading His tweets is probably free of limit xD
Franz@davidgerard yet people will find a way to apologize this with a "this is fine" mentality. 🙃
Max Meltser@davidgerard This is hilariously poorly thought out
Timothy Clark@davidgerard The first 600 replies in any big thread are the $8chan crowd anyway.
Wolf_Baginski@davidgerard
Was it only yesterday that Twitter started insisting that you had to be logged in to read Tweets?
I didn't get any notification from Twitter, it may have been blocked by the policy. The BBC is reporting this, but it is possible that the "day" is being defined according to Silicon Valley clocks.
theDevBot@davidgerard
That's why I join mastodon today😊
Comrade elronxenu@davidgerard He really wants to turn people off the platform, doesn't he?
Maggie29047241@davidgerard I had this happen to me, can't access my account.
Patoo@davidgerard stupidy eron
Kiss.My.Grits 🇺🇲 + 🧀 + ⚽@davidgerard Why couldn't we launch Elon into orbit inside of Tesla when we had the chance?
Chief Rug Pull Officer@davidgerard Bullish for Mastodon!
Dave O’Neill@davidgerard actually horrifically I think this is working the way they designed it to but they haven’t given a second’s thought to how people use Twitter and what that looks like.
Chris Hopkins@davidgerard I wonder what the advertisers feel about people being limited to the account of time they are allowed to spend on the site.
AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️@davidgerard
I thought they were "tweets", not "posts"?
I thought they were "tweets", not "posts"?
Sushi Umbrella@davidgerard Wait, what?
Daedalean@davidgerard and he’s lying about why. I’ve done some data scraping in my day and these limits are far too low to address those kinds of issues. Best speculation I saw before i was rate limited was he didn’t pay his service providers.