AnilikosJul 1, 2023
J. Martin

“Twitter Temporarily Restricts Tweets Users Can See, Elon Musk Announces”

What infuriates me most about Elno’s Gollumesque obsession with his preciousss #Twitter data is that this data isn’t *his* in the first place. We all poured our lifeblood into it—in my case for 16 years—under the explicit premise that Twitter’s a forum-like participatory open space.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66077195

Twitter temporarily restricts tweets users can see, Elon Musk announces

Elon Musk says verified accounts can read up to 10,000 posts a day while unverified ones are limited to 1,000.

BBC News
Jul 1, 2023 at 6:34pmWeb
Show threadJ. MartinJul 1, 2023

We also should note Lord Elno’s extra genius here, to severely restrict the number of eyeballs his advertisers paid money for. I bet they’re thrilled right now.

#Twitter

Show threadTheosuwbJul 1, 2023
@gyokusai yay! I just don’t understand how he made in business!
Show threadChris SmithJul 1, 2023
@gyokusai Musk paid $40 billion for a website worth about $10 billion. Having applied his genius it's now probably worth less than a second hand car.
Show threadDavid BruchmannJul 1, 2023
@gyokusai
I think he might be correct though that the platform is crawled like crazy.
archive.org reported this some time ago too.
Show threadJ. MartinJul 1, 2023
@davidbruchmann I’m just a scripter, not a programmer, but even I can think of several ways to curtail excessive scraping without having to implement a feudal tier system for reading allotments.
Show threadDavid BruchmannJul 1, 2023
@gyokusai
Yes, of course.
I'm not here to protect Elon's actions, decisions or business 😂
Show threadJ. MartinJul 1, 2023
@davidbruchmann @davidbruchmann yeah, I understood that, no worry! 🙂