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Needless to say, with those limits, Twitter is basically unusable. I really doubt these ridiculous limitations can be explained just by a sudden urge to scrape.
by 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
Needless to say, with those limits, Twitter is basically unusable. I really doubt these ridiculous limitations can be explained just by a sudden urge to scrape. Why limit verified accounts, for example?
- sylware 3y agoBecause they could be compromised and used by a careless third-party?
- mackie342red 3y agoWhy would Twitter's new verification system be compromised?
- rideontime 3y agoThere’s nothing to “compromise.” Being generous and accepting that this is meant to deter scrapers, a scraper could simply pay their eight bucks to avoid the rate limit.
- sylware 3y agoStolen credentials of such an account and hardly ever used by its legit owner. The hard part is the 'hardly ever used by its legit owner', not the "stolen credendials".
- x86x87 3y agoI am guessing twitter fucked around and now are in the finding out phase. I bet some of their infra is crumbling under the stress of all bs Musk pulled.
- soneca 3y agoI am 100% sure that I didn’t load 300 tweets in the official app today. I was only accessing an account where I follow 17 people. I just counted and there were 14 new tweets (RTs counted as 2 tweets) in my feed from today (the average for a typical day in this account). And I was rate-limited today. In the best scenario, the change is really intended, but they messed something with the implementation and Musk will never admit it. In the worst, their infra is crumbling and they are inventing excuses to save face.
- x86x87 3y agoTwitter crumbling is the best case scenario imho. This will show that you cannot run it with a skeleton crew and that the decisions made were either extremely naive or extremely dumb and filled with hubris
- mattgreenrocks 3y agoAnd we get the nice side effect of Twitter being dead.
- ssnistfajen 3y agoThe deadly combo is running a skeleton crew while rapidly implementing new changes. This just presents an exponentially higher workload for the remaining staff who may not have the institutional knowledge required to successfully tackle those problems.
- ProjectArcturis 3y agoGuessing the app preloaded responses to the tweets you read?
- soneca 3y agoThat’s my guess. Or something on the “for you” tab
- netsharc 3y agoI read that they've resumed paying Google for their cloud infra... maybe Melon just paid for some low tier and he's yelling at his engineers and they're desperately trying to not hit the limits of those resources.
- amatwl 3y agoThere was reporting that they were scrambling to move some infrastructure off Google since they were going to be cut off after refusing to pay their bills. The deadline was June 30, though there was additional reporting saying Linda Yaccarino restarted payments - https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-google-cloud-bills-invoices-linda-yaccarino-payments-2023-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-google-clo...
- x86x87 3y agoHahaha. If this caused it and it's actually googlw cutting them off this is beyond hilarious.
- timmytokyo 3y agoThis was all foreseen: “Things will be broken. Things will be broken more often. Things will be broken for longer periods of time. Things will be broken in more severe ways,” he says. “Everything will compound until, eventually, it’s not usable.” https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-ho...
- housemusicfan 3y agoVerified accounts are limited to 6k tweets/day. Assume the average human is awake for 16 hours a day. That's 6.25 tweets/minute if you did literally nothing but scroll through twitter all day long for 16 hours straight. Please explain how that makes the site "unusable" unless of course you are a non-human bot scraping site content.
- duped 3y agoI hit the 600 post limit in about an hour, so how they're counting that seems kind of suspect. There are dozens of tweets you may scroll past or comments you may load for any one that you care about.
- Terretta 3y agoYou only scroll past 6.25 tweets per minute? An easier way of thinking about this is, 12 followed tweets with 50 replies each, 600 limit reached. Do that in 10 idle times throughout your day (lots of people do more, like, say, Elon), and you hit even the verified limit.
- user_named 3y agoI can't imagine someone scrolling as slowly as in your example. I'm certain I scroll at least 100 tweets/minute.
- housemusicfan 3y agoFor 16 hours straight with no breaks? Your phone's battery would die before that was exceeded.
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