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Elon Musk blames data scraping by AI startups for his new paywalls on reading tweets (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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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.

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[–] fuzzywombat 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not a decision I think - I twitter has now tried to move away from AWS/Google Cloud(?) for its hosting but now the bill is due. Elon doesn't want to pay the full billion dollar bill and AWS/Google Cloud(?) has rate limited them because Elon is stiffing them.

So they have to rate limit the users to be able to use the AWS request bottleneck, while implementing that, they DDOSed themselves:

https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057