lol you won't even be able to read viral tweet threads or the replies. The people paying to have their replies boosted are going to looooove this.
The best part is that all those "the site functions fine after layoffs!" morons won't realize that it's precisely because of those cuts that the service can no longer handle read traffic and they have to do this.
And the best part is that tracking this still requires write traffic for read status, so he's traded cheap reads for expensive writes.
In my opinion he had to due to losing Google cloud services
@ElonMusk my guess is during Google cloud payment negotiations he threatened to increase the price of Firehose API access that Google uses to search index public tweets, and someone on the call either threatened to or straight-up prototyped doing it via scraping so he did this to win the argument.
Pure self-immolation.
I’m… pretty sure I don’t have to imagine it.
@rodhilton the thing gets even more stupid every other day.
And there are still people who think #Musk is a genius...
I can laugh about it. I don't do the bird thing anymore.
@rodhilton @mmasnick I will say I relish the idea that he will be negatively affected by this decision the most.
That he will see significantly less engagement because all of his reply guy cult followers will very quickly run out of their allotment each day. Then stop being able to respond to his tweets.
@Danielsand @mmasnick I think it took about 3 hours for most of the site's active users to hit the daily limit, resulting in Twitter effectively being "down" globally.
If it was fixable, it'd already be rolled back at this point.
Instead he's Liking tweets about how good it is that Twitter is encouraging you to touch grass and see your family, doubling down on it rather than fixing it.
Lends a lot to the theory it's GCP related and they *can't* turn it off.
@rodhilton yup.
It is hilarious how hard he is trying at “I meant to do that” for the sudden rate limit.
I assume we will soon get an insider leak about how lots of employees warned Musk that stiffing Google on payment will lead to lots of critical system failures.
But Musk demanded they could “hardcore code” their way into using Tesla servers or something similar that shows he has zero idea what is required to run the company.
@rodhilton zero facts behind this - just a guess. But I will not be surprised at all for us to find out that the Google services running the site is now running on a backup server farm that old Tesla setup. Something only meant for emergencies - thus the sudden rate limits.
That very, very soon the temporary hosting company will shut off access unless Musk pays them a significant emergency fee to continue operating.
@rodhilton looks like it wasn’t Gooogle and some completely unrelated mess up.
Omfg I just loaded Twitter for the first time in ages and did some casual scrolling, loading a few threads, standard stuff.
It took me 11 minutes to hit my daily cap. And that included the time I spent posting here to make fun of it.
And the UX when you hit it on reads is just that it says their own site is broken.
There is absolutely no way casual Twitter users will not hit these limits.
Reading your own tweets and replies counts against it. You can't even read your own notifications.
And of course it was all rolled out on a weekend so that some poor schmuck has to work the weekend to undo this idiocy.
@rodhilton Looks like they removed the 'rate limit' mention. Or it's just broken differently.
Normally I'd say 'deploy on friday' shows good control over processes. Post-Elon twitter is obviously an exception.
@rodhilton
So does the app load an entire thread before showing the start tweet? Surely they should page the queries.
Have you reading it in a browser rather than the app? Any difference?
Another mechanism I thought of was that maybe it checks every account you follow so if you follow more than 800 , it hits the limit.
How to kill #Twitter in less than an hour: 1.- Make a production change on a weekend that introduces a bug that create a DDoS to itself. (https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639474671754723) 2.- Rate limit users so they spent all the credits in seconds. 3.- Profit (?)
@Andres I'm legitimately stunned.
And of course, on a weekend too.
@andyb @rodhilton it would only take an hour or so to view 6000 tweets manually, and if they are forcing "by algorithm" instead of "latest tweets" now it's not even going to be the 6000 you want.
So even if you're paying, it's unusable.
@rodhilton Fortunately, I have plenty of backup accounts from bot tracking studies.
This is going to make blocklists useless as everyone starts using backup accounts.
@rodhilton I don't think this is because the site can't handle read traffic.
I think it's because he decided that he couldn't tolerate anonymous access, and people have been running web scrapers to get around that
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