I think he’s pretty willing for it to be his personal toy until it breaks down completely. It’s not like he needs to worry about being personally accountable, he can afford it.
I suspect when it does finally die though, he will miss the hourly hit of virtual cocksucking he gets from his fans. ChatGPT just doesn’t hit the same.
Hmm. Sounds a lot like something /u/spez said. I wouldn’t expect Twitter to be a good LLM source with its current state anyway…Reddit would be a lot better contextually. The reality is Reddit and Twitter are bleeding cash and they’ve got brain-rotted CEOs that don’t pay their bills or have unrealistic plans and timelines for profitability.
I think its only fair coz he paid 44 bilion and as the owner he can decide how to run the platform. Regulars shouldnt complain when they get a service for “free”
Based on my experience (nearing 30 years of system administration), one thing led to the others. They lost the capacity to handle lots of simultaneous requests when Google cut them off, so they pushed the change to rate limit at API level, but since they don’t seem to have QA or testing anymore, this led to the front-end hitting the limit, but the front-end didn’t have an error handler for this situation, so it just kept trying.
Tl;Dr, Twitter 2.0 is a shit show.
It’s actually bellow amateur hour. The best metaphor I can make for how things are working there right now is a bi-polar Chihuahua on crack having an epileptic seizures.
Don’t forget: new unverified accounts are capped at just 300 posts. Once someone hits the limit, there’s also no way for them to see Elon’s announcement of the change. Great design.
Who the FUCK is spez? Sounds like the name of some mentally deranged, wholly incompetent groomer. The only name I can think of that’s stupider is, idk, something like “Steve Huffman.”
I saw a screenshot of some Musk tweets stating that he’s already raising the limits to slightly larger numbers. I’m not sharing that info in his or twitters defense, I don’t use twitter. Just thought it was interesting that he’s raising the limits so quickly, probably quicker than desired due to the immediate public outlash!
I wonder if they already fixed twitter ddos attacking itself from earlier today.
I also read that when you hit the limit on desktop, the webpage sends 10 requests every few seconds. It looks like the Frontensegeln doesn‘t have the functionality to deal with the limit.
Rumor is that Twitter didn’t want to renew its Google Storage contract, but the migration to the new system is taking longer than expected. Now that it’s July 1, everything’s going to shit.
I started a Twitter account to follow the war in Ukraine at its very beginning. I was skeptical, but it won me over. Real time updates, easy to find expert takes, etc. Then Musk bought it, so I deleted my account the same day. No point sticking around on the titanic after the iceberg.
Also why things like emergency services really ought to be elsewhere… imagine people not getting the latest update because they ran out of tweets to view.
I’ve traded sports and breaking news commentary in Twitter in for Reddit about 10 years ago.
Not sure where to go now. Lemmy doesn’t have the volumes (yet at least) for the same amount of user engagement with these events. Perhaps it’s better like this anyway, no use being that engaged all the time.
I finally broke down and sign up during the Russian civil war. Wanted to see which way the rebels were headed, and after 2 tweets it was like “log in to see more”. Probably should of figured out how to use telegram instead.
Funny to see how they started taking these decisions right now, that most contents are most likely already scrapped anyways lol
Only thing I’m worried about is that Twitter is the biggest information source here in Japan, and people tend to be more conservative so very likely the majority won’t even consider protest.
Twitter is surviving because of its addicts. Now, it’s likely to drop its userbase significantly. Plus, Musk restricting people who aren’t logged in from seeing anything makes the website practically irrelevant, and if this is sustained, Twitter will die in a span of months, if not weeks.
Isn’t the information Elon is trying to protect have large amounts of useless, there are tons and tons of AI bots pretending to have engagement. So AI harvesters harvesting AI posts is kinda worthless.
You just made me picture The Matrix but instead of humans as the “batteries” its nothing but Agent Smith clones being policed by yet more Agent Smith clones.
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He is really trying to kill the platform at this point.
I can’t even think of a financial or business reason for him to do this that makes sense, he must just want to run Twitter into the ground
I think he’s pretty willing for it to be his personal toy until it breaks down completely. It’s not like he needs to worry about being personally accountable, he can afford it.
I suspect when it does finally die though, he will miss the hourly hit of virtual cocksucking he gets from his fans. ChatGPT just doesn’t hit the same.
I didn’t read the article. But could it be that every platform is trying to limit LLMs to be trained on their data?
Hmm. Sounds a lot like something /u/spez said. I wouldn’t expect Twitter to be a good LLM source with its current state anyway…Reddit would be a lot better contextually. The reality is Reddit and Twitter are bleeding cash and they’ve got brain-rotted CEOs that don’t pay their bills or have unrealistic plans and timelines for profitability.
Most of Twitter’s (and soon Reddit’s) data to be fed to LLMs will be porn sharing bots at this point.
It’s all fun and games till they train the AIs to make a million small accounts.
I think its only fair coz he paid 44 bilion and as the owner he can decide how to run the platform. Regulars shouldnt complain when they get a service for “free”
There are a lot of theories floating around about his Google cloud bill being due today and not having migrated stuff off of the platform.
So they may have gotten shut down.
There is also evidence that they pushed an update that’s basically ddos-ING themselves.
Based on my experience (nearing 30 years of system administration), one thing led to the others. They lost the capacity to handle lots of simultaneous requests when Google cut them off, so they pushed the change to rate limit at API level, but since they don’t seem to have QA or testing anymore, this led to the front-end hitting the limit, but the front-end didn’t have an error handler for this situation, so it just kept trying.
Tl;Dr, Twitter 2.0 is a shit show.
It’s actually bellow amateur hour. The best metaphor I can make for how things are working there right now is a bi-polar Chihuahua on crack having an epileptic seizures.
You know what the best way to keep your users on your site and engaged to rack up ad revenue? Rate limiting them. /s
https://waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug-causes-self-ddos-possibly-causing-elon-musks-emergency-blocks-and-rate-limits-its-amateur-hour/
Amateur hour
Holy lol
I bet this wasn’t the start of this fiasco but I bet this article was published before they figured it out for themselves
“Fuck you Shoresy!” -Elon Musk probably, idk
Holy lol
I bet this wasn’t the start of this fiasco but I bet this article was published before they figured it out for themselves
https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639474671754723
Space Karen is a really good nickname for him
I guess he couldn’t stand to see Spez pull ahead in the race to the bottom.
Elon is jelly coz users now coming to mastodon and Lemmy. Lemmy might replace his centralized platform
Don’t forget: new unverified accounts are capped at just 300 posts. Once someone hits the limit, there’s also no way for them to see Elon’s announcement of the change. Great design.
Sadly, I’m sure spez is taking notes.
Who the FUCK is spez? Sounds like the name of some mentally deranged, wholly incompetent groomer. The only name I can think of that’s stupider is, idk, something like “Steve Huffman.”
I saw a screenshot of some Musk tweets stating that he’s already raising the limits to slightly larger numbers. I’m not sharing that info in his or twitters defense, I don’t use twitter. Just thought it was interesting that he’s raising the limits so quickly, probably quicker than desired due to the immediate public outlash!
I wonder if they already fixed twitter ddos attacking itself from earlier today.
I also read that when you hit the limit on desktop, the webpage sends 10 requests every few seconds. It looks like the Frontensegeln doesn‘t have the functionality to deal with the limit.
Rumor is that Twitter didn’t want to renew its Google Storage contract, but the migration to the new system is taking longer than expected. Now that it’s July 1, everything’s going to shit.
Again, that’s the rumor.
Hugely believable. The place is running on skeleton crew who have to waste time catering to Musk’s ego whims.
Never had Twitter to begin with but it was useful for seeing current events and comments. But ngl, kinda love watching it and musk go down in flames
I started a Twitter account to follow the war in Ukraine at its very beginning. I was skeptical, but it won me over. Real time updates, easy to find expert takes, etc. Then Musk bought it, so I deleted my account the same day. No point sticking around on the titanic after the iceberg.
Warmapper is on mastodon by the way.
It’s very useful for sports and breaking news. Can see a normal (unverified) user burning through those limits quick. Great user engagement!
Also why things like emergency services really ought to be elsewhere… imagine people not getting the latest update because they ran out of tweets to view.
I’ve traded sports and breaking news commentary in Twitter in for Reddit about 10 years ago.
Not sure where to go now. Lemmy doesn’t have the volumes (yet at least) for the same amount of user engagement with these events. Perhaps it’s better like this anyway, no use being that engaged all the time.
Same but for porn and art. Mostly porn.
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I finally broke down and sign up during the Russian civil war. Wanted to see which way the rebels were headed, and after 2 tweets it was like “log in to see more”. Probably should of figured out how to use telegram instead.
Fucking telegram, man. I have no idea how to use that damn thing lmao
Funny to see how they started taking these decisions right now, that most contents are most likely already scrapped anyways lol Only thing I’m worried about is that Twitter is the biggest information source here in Japan, and people tend to be more conservative so very likely the majority won’t even consider protest.
Twitter is surviving because of its addicts. Now, it’s likely to drop its userbase significantly. Plus, Musk restricting people who aren’t logged in from seeing anything makes the website practically irrelevant, and if this is sustained, Twitter will die in a span of months, if not weeks.
That no public viewing is going to really hit them. When I see that page requesting a login, I nope right out of there. Pinterest is that way too.
Is there a better option than Pinterest? Yandex Images? Really?
TBF, Pinterest seems almost made to be federated…
Isn’t the information Elon is trying to protect have large amounts of useless, there are tons and tons of AI bots pretending to have engagement. So AI harvesters harvesting AI posts is kinda worthless.
You just made me picture The Matrix but instead of humans as the “batteries” its nothing but Agent Smith clones being policed by yet more Agent Smith clones.