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As someone without an account, I am finally able to browse and read it. In the last months before he took over it had become literally unusable. After some sec

As someone without an account, I am finally able to browse and read it. In the last months before he took over it had become literally unusable. After some seconds of scrolling a sign-up window would show up which was impossible to dismiss and neither ublock nor umatrix helped.

illiarian 4y ago
That's the only good thing that happened. Meanwhile: - failures are happening more often. Just in the past week they broke "following" page for half a day, and then image uploads for a few hours (with hilarious "your account has hit the API limit for their own site) - they just randomly killed third-party apps that made Twitter what it was with zero warning or explanation - destroyed all possible credibility of blue checkmarks. Which are not just celebrities, but also government agencies - people report an increase in harassment and trolls
- ackfoobar 4y ago
  Some outages for increased velocity can be a good trade off for twitter. I think the acquisition is partly idelogically motivated. So destroying the blue checkmark credibility is probably "mischief managed". For government accounts, they now have gray checkmarks.
  - illiarian 4y ago
    > Some outages for increased velocity can be a good trade off for twitter. What increased velocity? > So destroying the blue checkmark credibility is probably "mischief managed". This statement makes no sense > For government accounts, they now have gray checkmarks. Wat? Is this the velocity you're talking about? When they introduced paid blue checkmarks, then realized it's a bad idea, and introduced "official" label to only backpedal less than a day later, only to introduce gray checkmarks? First time I hear of gray checkmarks btw. Just checked: of course there are now gray checkmarks. And of course they are randomly assigned. And of course there are also golden checkmarks because reasons. Also randomly assigned.
CatWChainsaw 4y ago
I used uMatrix to read Twitter without difficulty. Did you have most of the scripts blocked?

illiarian 4y ago

That's the only good thing that happened. Meanwhile: - failures are happening more often. Just in the past week they broke "following" page for half a day, and then image uploads for a few hours (with hilarious "your account has hit the API limit for their own site) - they just randomly killed third-party apps that made Twitter what it was with zero warning or explanation - destroyed all possible credibility of blue checkmarks. Which are not just celebrities, but also government agencies - people report an increase in harassment and trolls

ackfoobar 4y ago
Some outages for increased velocity can be a good trade off for twitter. I think the acquisition is partly idelogically motivated. So destroying the blue checkmark credibility is probably "mischief managed". For government accounts, they now have gray checkmarks.
- illiarian 4y ago
  > Some outages for increased velocity can be a good trade off for twitter. What increased velocity? > So destroying the blue checkmark credibility is probably "mischief managed". This statement makes no sense > For government accounts, they now have gray checkmarks. Wat? Is this the velocity you're talking about? When they introduced paid blue checkmarks, then realized it's a bad idea, and introduced "official" label to only backpedal less than a day later, only to introduce gray checkmarks? First time I hear of gray checkmarks btw. Just checked: of course there are now gray checkmarks. And of course they are randomly assigned. And of course there are also golden checkmarks because reasons. Also randomly assigned.

CatWChainsaw 4y ago

I used uMatrix to read Twitter without difficulty. Did you have most of the scripts blocked?