Fifo Kaswiti
Theory - maybe Musk thought he wasted way too much time on social media, and, as a megalomaniac, naturally believes that what applies to him must apply to everybody.
Maybe he thinks he’s doing everyone a favour, and actively improving their well-being.
Jul 2, 2023 at 7:54amWeb
Show threadPwassonchat the enby catboyJul 2, 2023
@fifokaswiti He would have made the usage limit optional in that case. He makes ad money off people spending too much time on Twitter.
I've seen a better theory: the server hosting company (AWS, apparently) is restricting access to Twitter because of unpaid bills. Which would be consistent withthe fact that Twitter doesn't pay rent, either.
Show threadFifo KaswitiJul 2, 2023

@pwassonchat nah, they mostly run off their own data centres, with some services offloaded to cloud providers. There was a story about outstanding GCP bills but they got settled last month.

In reality, the API restrictions imposed a month ago had people switch to HTML scraping off the website, which uses orders of magnitude more resources server side. Basically that created a (self-caused) denial-of-service attack, which they can only fight by rate limiting.

Show threadFifo KaswitiJul 2, 2023
@pwassonchat ... but it’s a healthy thought experiment to try and imagine good motives for stupid blunders :)