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.
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