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Paul Haddad 
Doubling down on the obvious lies makes me wonder how embarrassing the truth is.
https://business.twitter.com/en/blog/update-on-twitters-limited-usage.html
But wait, I thought killing off the API was supposed to get rid of all the bots…
alarmed feet operative: kimothy siddon@paul instead all they lost was dril
Ethan Lipnik 🦧✡️🇮🇱@paul it’s crazy how none of this will work since most of the bots use “Twitter for iPhone” anyway.
Stuart Gibson@paul Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Robert Petersen 
@paul can’t wait for the eventual documentary in a few years with leaked emails and company memos explaining the entire downfall of Twitter.
Ash Doyle@paul You can’t stop the bots that easily, Paul! They’re now powered by AI and if Twitter falls so too does humanity! But we can stop it if you just pitch in $8 a month.
Mike Beasley@paul No no, he got rid of all the bots his first week there, remember. It was easy and the previous administration just didn’t care enough to do it.
Earthy Tonez@paul killed the Google crawling bot:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23783153/google-twitter-tweets-changes-rate-limits
Tweets aren’t showing up in Google results as often because of changes at Twitter
Google can’t display tweets and pages from Twitter in search results as effectively as it usually does because of changes at Twitter, according to a statement given to The Verge. Twitter began rate-limiting tweets over the weekend.
airik@paul yes… eventually when Twitter goes under it will …
Adam Williams@paul same with blue would solve bots. i very thing solves bots apparently. except actually dealing with bots because today alone got several follows from bots and one even added me to a crypto list
ilinamoratoAnd turning off logged-out access
And "freedom of speech, not freedom of reach"
And making the verified check a paid service
And trying to get out of buying the platform in the first place
Geoff Kratz@paul Almost as if the bots didn’t use the API. 🤔
Bill0004@paul I love the not-subtle subtext glee in your posts :-)
DavidNelsonNM@paul But … all them paid blue checks assured me that Saint Elon waved his hand and eliminated bots & spam. Like, 2 hours in.
At least, I think it was a hand. I block more than read.
Vorsos@paul Elon’s gonna build a firewall and make the bots pay for it
Jonathan L.@paul you first need to get rid of all the users! Isn't it obvious?
Kevin Whalen 
@paul Yeah, nothing Twitter says is trustworthy at this point.
Jeff@paul Just like that delivery of cocaine to the White House!
@paul that has a real "I must scan the airwaves for traitors and pigs, they are everywhere" vibe.
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)@paul Image description: To ensure the authenticity of our user base we must take extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform. That's why we temporarily limited usage so we could detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors that are harming the platform. Any advance notice on these actions would have allowed bad actors to alter their behavior to evade detection.
Nona #DarkGranny@paul I think my 5-yr old grand child could make up a better story than that
#Bandwidth costs add up
Elmo is broke and has been since day one.
When you decimate your incoming cash flow, you can not pay the bills.
Tay M.@paul Over the weekend, I "liked" maybe a couple posts and then got hit with messages of how I couldn't like anymore to prevent spam and stuff.
It was ridiculous when it triggered after just two likes. Go home, Twitter, you're drunk.
Dieu@paul this is one of the moments where I wish I were on the platform still to watch Elmo's sycophants try to make sense of that as if they were doing Star Trek physics.
@paul these powerful botmasters that completelbchange the behaviours of their bad, bad bots at a moment's notice. I suspect the Q.
Simon Harper@paul fuck Twitter. It’s not ‘us’ anymore. Ignore. Delete.
Andy@paul “As it relates to our customers, effects on advertising have been minimal.” Is this just clumsily worded or are they calling out advertisers as their primary customer?
Fuck Elon 
Antony Johnston@paul 😂🤡😂🤡😂🤡😂🤡😂🤡
VHaschI believe this is Musk-speak for "We did this deliberately to defeat the boogeyman. This was not an accident. It was on purpose. Really. It was."
Jeremy Saunders@paul tell me, Elon, are these 'bots' in the room with us now?
Simon Frankau@paul Oh, that's why he failed to defeat bots and spam before, after he'd promised to.
He forgot to set a rate limit for all users first, that well-known technique used by big tech anti-abuse teams.
(Having said that, it might actually work - given the retry logic, any client that, when faced with a rate limit, doesn't DoS Twitter isn't a real client. :p )
Covidiocracy@paul
“Okay, Mr. Musk. Are ‘the bots’ in the room with us right now?”
“Okay, Mr. Musk. Are ‘the bots’ in the room with us right now?”
🦣丁斯特Dingster@paul Elon must really adore Donald Trump. Instead of apologizing and stepping down, he just keeps digging himself into 💩holes
Ongo Gablogian 🇺🇦
Steve's Place@paul I suspect to avoid getting cut off altogether by Google and AWS for non-payment they entered into an agreement whereby Twitter is throttled by both. When he pays for the traffic and servers Twitter has already used, and if he honors this deal, it'll all be better. Data center operators love getting stiffed and often are seen giving gifts of uninterrupted service, their only leverage outside of removing the leech, to their debtors. Just ask one!
Comrade elronxenu@paul What a load of bullshit. The APIs which they turned off were already rate limited up the wazoo.
Gerty SteinblattGerty Steinblatt (@[email protected])
"Press Release (ish) Our toddler-style budget & workforce destruction inevitably led us to break Birdsite. Our hack workarounds & greed are why we inconvenience you so needlessly. Blaming you for outcomes revealing our blind greed & idiocy is totally on-brand for our owner's narcissistic petty hubris, which is also why we always abdicate responsibility for everything unattractive, & only ever fake apologise to blame 3rd parties like you. Thank you for using Birdsite! [poop emoji]"
Jean Hominal@paul it really is puzzling - rate limiting *read* actions does *nothing* to stop spam or bots…
My expectations for them have been underground ever since they cut Tweetbot but they are still undercutting them somehow!