Rod HiltonJul 18, 2023

Sometimes Elon stans call me out on Twitter when people post the "cars and rockets" post, demanding to know what stupid things Elon says about software.

Here's a primo example.

In this exchange, Elon thinks Adam Mosseri is adding rate limits to Threads just like he added them to Twitter, and that he "copied" Elon.

Anyone who understands software knows Adam is talking about WRITE rate limits to curb spam posts. Elon implemented READ rate limits in an application that relies on ad impressions.

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@rodhilton perfect. Because the biggest problem with spam is people reading too much of it. And really if your system can't handle massive read loads utilizing things like edge caching then you're probably hosed anyway. What's the betting Twitter tried to get rid of AWS caching with massive scalability and tried to do their own thing that didn't scale? #IsItWebscale ?

Meanwhile wasn't another driver of Twitter's read rate limit to stop crawlers?

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