Only people who pay for Twitter can see more than 600 posts per day
Elon Musk blamed AI companies for new “temporary” limitations on Twitter access. Verified accounts can read up to 6,000 posts per day, while unverified users are limited to seeing 600 posts per day.
I just don’t believe it has to do with site scrapping. He says the daily read cap is temporary measure but that makes no sense. First of all he gives no length of time. Is it days? Weeks? Several months? Scrapping will just resume when the daily cap ends. In the meantime all the users will get frustrated and leave. It’s hilariously stupid decision.
You have to be so candide to believe in this.
Scrappers didn’t appeared out of the blue yesterday, if it was to fight it the company would have warn the users about the coming changes.
It’s obvious that’s it’s an emergency change because of him not paying Google Cloud while trying to push for Twitter Blue.
6,000/day isn’t that much since I heard it counts all replies, too.
I think this might also be related to their Google Cloud bills and inability to move off that platform fast enough. Now they don’t want to have to pay for the usage.
I’ve only ever been the low person on the tech company totem pole–but it’s certainly an interesting realization that even I could have foreseen many of these issues he’s been having these past few days myself.
What’s the opposite of imposter syndrome? Because that’s when you have the skills but still feel like you shouldn’t be there.
What’s it called when you know your skills aren’t great, but you’re also achingly aware you’d do better than that other guy over there?
True!
Most of it should have been common business sense; especially after seeing what happened with Reddit, CEOs should know that no platform is permanent.
Seems like he shouldn’t have bought the bird website and fucked around with it. Not saying I’d do any better if I bought the bird website and fucked around with it, but Jesus Fuck, you’d think you’d buy the bird website, watch it for like a year, and THEN fuck around with it once you’ve watched it for a while?
The guy has too many doubloons to know what to do with. He should probably slow down or something.
This isn’t how you handle automated processes scraping you, you handle that by restricting things that human beings can’t do. Preventing literally every user from seeing a reasonable amount of content is just cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I’m in IT for a company with a significant web presence. We rely on Akamai for a number of services including CDN and WAF (web application firewall). They have a WAF add-on called Bot Manager that can pretty accurately identify web traffic from bots in real time. If what Musk is claiming was true then tools like Akamais Bot Manager and other similar products would easily identify this traffic and allow them to block it or route it elsewhere.
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Of course the manchild with fragile ego blames other people for his problems.
I just don’t believe it has to do with site scrapping. He says the daily read cap is temporary measure but that makes no sense. First of all he gives no length of time. Is it days? Weeks? Several months? Scrapping will just resume when the daily cap ends. In the meantime all the users will get frustrated and leave. It’s hilariously stupid decision.
You have to be so candide to believe in this. Scrappers didn’t appeared out of the blue yesterday, if it was to fight it the company would have warn the users about the coming changes.
It’s obvious that’s it’s an emergency change because of him not paying Google Cloud while trying to push for Twitter Blue.
I feel like the limits were chosen to force twitter addicts to upgrade to blue.
6,000/day isn’t that much since I heard it counts all replies, too.
I think this might also be related to their Google Cloud bills and inability to move off that platform fast enough. Now they don’t want to have to pay for the usage.
Lol without users it’s even cheaper.
He really thinks people want to pay $8 USD a month to scroll through bots, ads, and trolls all day long.
New Reddit can give you the same experience for free. If you want an endless feed of bot garbage, there are competitors doing it for free.
I’ve only ever been the low person on the tech company totem pole–but it’s certainly an interesting realization that even I could have foreseen many of these issues he’s been having these past few days myself.
What’s the opposite of imposter syndrome? Because that’s when you have the skills but still feel like you shouldn’t be there.
What’s it called when you know your skills aren’t great, but you’re also achingly aware you’d do better than that other guy over there?
The Dunning–Kruger effect 🙈
True! Most of it should have been common business sense; especially after seeing what happened with Reddit, CEOs should know that no platform is permanent.
Seems like he shouldn’t have bought the bird website and fucked around with it. Not saying I’d do any better if I bought the bird website and fucked around with it, but Jesus Fuck, you’d think you’d buy the bird website, watch it for like a year, and THEN fuck around with it once you’ve watched it for a while?
The guy has too many doubloons to know what to do with. He should probably slow down or something.
This isn’t how you handle automated processes scraping you, you handle that by restricting things that human beings can’t do. Preventing literally every user from seeing a reasonable amount of content is just cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I’m in IT for a company with a significant web presence. We rely on Akamai for a number of services including CDN and WAF (web application firewall). They have a WAF add-on called Bot Manager that can pretty accurately identify web traffic from bots in real time. If what Musk is claiming was true then tools like Akamais Bot Manager and other similar products would easily identify this traffic and allow them to block it or route it elsewhere.
Musk should know this. I know Tesla uses Akamai.
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I’m pretty sure he doesn’t wanna pay such service and prefer cheaper / easier way.