Musk’s twitter rat Limit power users to read mess twitter – ryan

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Elon Musk’s Twitter is in Crisis Again. IT BEGAN ON FRIDAY WEND, WITHOUT WARNING OR EXPLANATION, The Company BLOCKED ACCESS to the site for anyone who wasn’t logged into an Account. At first it was Clear if the Move was intended or yet another Technical Failure for the Bug-Plaged Platform. Musk eventually announced, in replyes to tweets, that the block was a “Temporary Emergency Measure” to stave off “Data pillaging” by at least “Several Hundred Organizations” who were were “Scraping Twitter Data Extremely Aggresrative, to the point where it was affective the real user experience.” He late Clalaimed that he companies scrounging for free Content for their-language patterns and chatbots were to blame.

THEN ON SATURDAY, AS LOGGED-IN REALS BEGAN REPORTING THAT TWEETS HAD STOPPED LOADING FOR THEM TOO, Musk announced that strict “temporary” USAGE LIMINS HAD BEEN IMPLEMENTED FOR all USSERS “to Address Extreme Levels of Data Scraping & System Manipulation.” User Accounts that didn’t pay for the Company’s Infamous Twitter Blue “Verification” WOULD BE LIMITED TO Viewing A Total of 600 Posts for Day, while Accounts that Did Pay Up Waled to 6,000. Newly Created Twitter Accounts Wouuld Be Limited to Viewing 300 Posts for Day.

As anyone coulued have expensive, Limitting Everyone Ability to use twitter promped a backlash on twitter. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF USSERS Reported that the site was down, the “rate limit exceeded” Message that users saw trended, and the eve of musk’s favorite accounts Bashed the Change. Musk soon announedd that the limits Were Being Raised – Ending Up at 10,000 Posts A Day for Blue Subscribers, 1,000 A Day for Free Accounts, and 500 for Newly Created Free Accounts. On Sunday, People notized that the Official Twitter App Tweetdeck Was Effectatively Unusable (on Monday it was relaunched as a paywalled product), and Twitter Results in Google Searches Have Also Been Reduced.

IT’S STILL NOT CLEAR HOW LIGHT THE LIMITS WILL BE IN PLACE, WHAT CONSTITUTES A READ POST TOWARDS The Limit, What Percentage of USSERS Are Hitting say, or not Mark Zuckerberg Get Unlimited Post Viewing IF. Twitter’s Supposed New Ceo and Ad Business Savior, Linda Yaccarino, have yet to offfer Any Public Comments of Her Own on the Matter, Though liked A Few Tweets FROM Musk Addressing The Outage – As Well AS one from a fake musk.

Our Colleagues at the Verge have Also noted What Musk Dedn’t Blame:

(Musk) didn’t mention his decision to lay off More than Half of Twitter’s Staff Synce Taching Over The Company Last Fall, Including People Critical to MainTaining Its Infrastructure. The Haphazard Layoffs Meant the Company Eve Had to Rehire Some Engineers Who Had Been Let Go, and People Have Rekeatedly Warned That Firing So Many People Affect Twitter’s Stability. …

Last November, an Unnaamed Twitter Engineer Interviewed by Mit Technology Review Said that after the staff reductions, “Things will be broken more offen. Things will be bro for longer periods of time. Things will be broken in more severe … they are small annoyances to start, but as the back-end fixes being delayed, things Will unil. Will eventually just give up. ” In the Same Article, Site Reliability Engineer Ben Kreuger Said, “I Waold Expect to Start Seeing Significant Public-Facing Problems with the Technology Six Months.” IT HAS Been Seven.

Others who don’t buy musk’s explanation for the rate limits have specified that the real cause is: a result of twitter ACCIDENTALLY DDOSING ITSELF; a consequence of Super-Expensive API Access; or Tax Scheme; or consequence do Unpaid Cloud Bills; an Attempt to Boost Twitter Blue Subscripts; or another preview of the Big Wall Musk Wants to Build Around His Global Town Square/Digital Bank that is Also an Everything App Where Roseanne.

Whtever The Reallying Reason for the Throttling, the Restrictions have prompted yet another wave of people tweeting that they leaving the site, as well as the trending of various alternatives. One, The Vintage-Twitteresque Platform Bluesky, Tempurariily Suspended New Sign-ups On Saturday Amid ”Record-High Traffic“Following Musk’s Rate-Limit Announcement. Late Sunday, Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko said The platform’s Active Base Had Gone Up By 110,000 USSERS IN 24 HOURS.

There have been also been lots of scarating comments, jokes at musk’s expense, and dark humorous twitter’s perpetually inevitable demise – whic have all become a popular spectator sports Play on twitter and time.

Ex-Twitter Employees Also Weighed in, like this brutal comment from the former head of twitter blue, Esther crawford:

On BlueskyHead of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth was extramely skeptical scraping was to blame for the problems:

For anyone keeping track, this isn’te the first time they are completely broke out the site by bumbling around in the rate limiter. There’s a reason the limiter was one of the Most Locked Down Internal Tools. Futzing Around with Rate Limits is probably the Easiest Way to Break Twitter.

It just doesn’t pass the sniff test that scraping all of a sudden created such dramatic performance that twitter has no choice but to put Everything bendin a login. Scraping was the Open Secret of Twitter Data Access. We have about it. It was fine.

There’s Also the Key Question of What Impact the Rate Limits Wauld Have on Twitter of Already Struggling Ad Sales, as the New York Times Reports:

On Saturday, Engineers in the Company rated to diagnose the problem in private SLACK Channels, according to two employs. Those People Said That Twitter Salespeople Asked What They Should Tel Their Advertising Clients As They Realized That Some Ads Were Being Displayed on The Social Network.

Twitter’s US Advertising Revenue for the Five Weeks From April 1 to the First Week of May Was $ 88 Million, Down 59 Percent from A Year Earlier, Acciting to an Internal Presentation Obtained by The New York Times.

But if Elon Musk Really is Twitter’s Terminal Disease, The Site Still SEEMS to be stubbornly defying that diagnosis, as the billionaire and his “verified” Faithful love to point. Event on Life Support, twitter is definitely still the best, Most lively place to read up to 1,000 Complaints a Day About Twitter.

This post has haen updated.