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Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site or faced difficulty and delays Saturday.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (16 children)

And it's worse than you think. While this is a "bug", it is based on a feature that Elon is actively rolling out that will be rate limiting how many tweets you're allowed to view in a day.

That seems to be where the current issue stems from, likely something where it's looking at the amount you've read in the previous 24 hours.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (3 children)

lmao, this is fucking hilarious
I can't believe I'm saying this but... based elon?
The feddiverse as a whole might be soon flooded with people tho, prepare yourselves, they comin'

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's removed all of the features of Twitter at this point. It no longer is even the site it was created to be.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I kinda don't get it, Twitter is easy to embed and has good SEO, much like Reddit. Walling this up is the opposite of helpful.

Same with the rate limit. Interaction and posting is the heartblood of the website and what gives it value.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

why care about helpfulness and community interaction and value when you can simply monetize every single aspect and run the community into the ground for the 💰💰💰

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

Making people unaddicted to twitter deliberately is definitely a W

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm new, still getting the ropes. Honestly I've seen more engagin comments in the last hour than I have on either Reddit or Twitter for the last week.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right?? It's weird... it's both refreshing and nostalgic at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have definitely commented more in the fedverse in the last week than I have in the last year on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So to combat system manipulation... he's giving more power to users that can better manipulate the system.

People think this genius is going to give us colonies on Mars when all he's successfully done is take credit for other people's work, buy a platform for hate with investor's money, and give Twitter investors a deeply painful colonoscopy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I support Elon’s decision on this and hope it becomes permanent. That way, the exodus from Twitter can continue and reputable organizations will stop considering Twitter a valid platform.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

spez already said he loves Elon... hello conspiracy!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From my understanding, the posts/day also includes any comments you load up. So, if you're not careful with the more popular Tweets, you could be rate limited in a very quick manner.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Which would mean people won't bother with popular tweets people are paying money for to get more views

💀 lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This is a bad corporate speak that says, "Don't scrape our data, consume through api and pay upto your necks".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'd say reduce the limit to 600 for verified accounts and unverified to 60 and new accounts to 30.
The world will be a better place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

300 posts, most of which are text are obviously too much traffic for a multi-billion dollar social media site.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, I guess this helps people from doom scrolling. Thanks Elon, for getting people to touch grass instead of being glued to social media!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good thing you can't do this on fedi platforms

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is mad, lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

So given Reddit's CEO idolizes Musk and his ideas for Twitter, I wonder how long it'll take for Reddit to adopt this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is so stupid it's barely believable. Like, he's made some (many) bad moves, but this is literal platform suicide if it isn't reversed immidiately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

this. I simply can't use twitter right now. and some people were saying you can hit 600 tweets in just 15 mins of scrolling. which would basically kill my twitter use entirely. if it continues good chance I stop using twitter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Elon gonna Elon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Translation.

Fuck, we can't pay our server costs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This might make my dad reduce his Twitter usage, thanks Elon!