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So 99% of accounts that are not verified are restricted to viewing max 600 tweets a day, which means if you do more than casually check Twitter once a day, you'

So 99% of accounts that are not verified are restricted to viewing max 600 tweets a day, which means if you do more than casually check Twitter once a day, you're fucked. No wonder everything is breaking. But that's OK. Twitter has a big engineering team that should be able to sort this out soon. Oh, wait...

pphysch 3y ago
Yeah my limit hit after 20-25 minutes of total screen time. What a mess.
- randomfool 3y ago
  Same- rate limited after 20 mins. Way to force me to move elsewhere. Advertising must really be in the hole to force users off the site like this.
  - bardak 3y ago
    This kills any advertising revenue they have and I'm sure twitter blue subscribers won't be happy about this if it keeps going on. I wonder if they will give twitter blue subscribers an even higher limit so that they can actually use it.
- Tempest1981 3y ago
  /s or not /s? 25 minutes seems like plenty to me. But I also have HN noprocrast enabled.
  - pphysch 3y ago
    I also have a Twitter screen time limit, just not for 20 minutes.
  - publius_0xf3 3y ago
    25 minutes is nothing when a major event is happening. Like just last week, I was intensely following the Wagner Group rebellion minute-by-minute without sleeping. A limit would make it impossible to watch history unfold in real-time.
    - morkalork 3y ago
      Conspiracy theory of the day: He knows about something big that is going to happen soon and the breakage is intentional.
  - esskay 3y ago
    25 minutes is easy to hit when something is happening (be it a world event, sporting event, etc). Case in point: I was watching the F1 sprint race this afternoon, taking part in a few discussions on Twitter about it as I always do. It took 10 minutes for my rate limit to come up, so thats me done on Twitter for the day, and advertisers not getting impressions.
dbish 3y ago
Which Twitter replacement are people moving to (edit:looks like Bluesky if they can keep the servers up)? I’m a big fan of Elon and what he’s built so I wasn’t planning on leaving, but can’t even use it now. Mastodon still seems too complicated to get the masses on. Where will non-tech folks go?
- rjtavares 3y ago
  Bluesky is having some degraded performance due to "record-high traffic" (according to them). As a casual user, it's noticeable how many people are posting now.
  - dbish 3y ago
    That’s still invite only though right?
    - rjtavares 3y ago
      Yeah. I think each user gets onr invite per week. Here's an invite code: bsky-social-ejzzv-3pehr
      - dbish 3y ago
        Thank you much. Greatly appreciated. Trying it out now
        rjtavares 3y ago
        Looks like you got it. Have fun!
  - Hamuko 3y ago
    Yeah, noticed a lot of dormant follows pop up on my home feed again.
- techwizrd 3y ago
  I created a Mastodon account yesterday before I even knew about this and it was surprisingly easy and user-friendly. The big thing it's missing, for me, is a way to find the Mastodon accounts for people you follow on Twitter. If more of the AI/ML community switched to Mastodon, I wouldn't have any need for Twitter.
bassman9000 3y ago
Not an engineering issue. Compute, and in the end, energy, has a cost. You weren't aware of it because, as someone mentioned, it was subsidized before. Now you are aware. You're free to contribute by paying, if content is worth to you, or walk away. There are alternatives, but you can't escape the fact that moving all those bits is not free.
- sumeno 3y ago
  Why is it suddenly so costly only after Elon took over considering Twitter was borderline profitable before he took over?
  - bassman9000 3y ago
    it was never profitable
    - sumeno 3y ago
      Wrong, they had net profits 15 out of 18 quarters from 2018-2022 https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-income-quarterly/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom...
      - arrrg 3y ago
        Also, probably fairly considered the cost of doing business, but that includes a substantial fine Twitter had to pay. And Covid troubles. Just good to know for context. I’m really not sure where this narrative is coming from. It‘s always so weird to me. Why be so wrong?
- starlevel003 3y ago
  > Compute, and in the end, energy, has a cost. making sure that nobody can see ads by ratelimiting them too hard really helps with this, or so I'm told

pphysch 3y ago

Yeah my limit hit after 20-25 minutes of total screen time. What a mess.

randomfool 3y ago
Same- rate limited after 20 mins. Way to force me to move elsewhere. Advertising must really be in the hole to force users off the site like this.
- bardak 3y ago
  This kills any advertising revenue they have and I'm sure twitter blue subscribers won't be happy about this if it keeps going on. I wonder if they will give twitter blue subscribers an even higher limit so that they can actually use it.
Tempest1981 3y ago
/s or not /s? 25 minutes seems like plenty to me. But I also have HN noprocrast enabled.
- pphysch 3y ago
  I also have a Twitter screen time limit, just not for 20 minutes.
- publius_0xf3 3y ago
  25 minutes is nothing when a major event is happening. Like just last week, I was intensely following the Wagner Group rebellion minute-by-minute without sleeping. A limit would make it impossible to watch history unfold in real-time.
  - morkalork 3y ago
    Conspiracy theory of the day: He knows about something big that is going to happen soon and the breakage is intentional.
- esskay 3y ago
  25 minutes is easy to hit when something is happening (be it a world event, sporting event, etc). Case in point: I was watching the F1 sprint race this afternoon, taking part in a few discussions on Twitter about it as I always do. It took 10 minutes for my rate limit to come up, so thats me done on Twitter for the day, and advertisers not getting impressions.

dbish 3y ago

Which Twitter replacement are people moving to (edit:looks like Bluesky if they can keep the servers up)? I’m a big fan of Elon and what he’s built so I wasn’t planning on leaving, but can’t even use it now. Mastodon still seems too complicated to get the masses on. Where will non-tech folks go?

rjtavares 3y ago
Bluesky is having some degraded performance due to "record-high traffic" (according to them). As a casual user, it's noticeable how many people are posting now.
- dbish 3y ago
  That’s still invite only though right?
  - rjtavares 3y ago
    Yeah. I think each user gets onr invite per week. Here's an invite code: bsky-social-ejzzv-3pehr
    - dbish 3y ago
      Thank you much. Greatly appreciated. Trying it out now
      - rjtavares 3y ago
        Looks like you got it. Have fun!
- Hamuko 3y ago
  Yeah, noticed a lot of dormant follows pop up on my home feed again.
techwizrd 3y ago
I created a Mastodon account yesterday before I even knew about this and it was surprisingly easy and user-friendly. The big thing it's missing, for me, is a way to find the Mastodon accounts for people you follow on Twitter. If more of the AI/ML community switched to Mastodon, I wouldn't have any need for Twitter.

bassman9000 3y ago

Not an engineering issue. Compute, and in the end, energy, has a cost. You weren't aware of it because, as someone mentioned, it was subsidized before. Now you are aware. You're free to contribute by paying, if content is worth to you, or walk away. There are alternatives, but you can't escape the fact that moving all those bits is not free.

sumeno 3y ago
Why is it suddenly so costly only after Elon took over considering Twitter was borderline profitable before he took over?
- bassman9000 3y ago
  it was never profitable
  - sumeno 3y ago
    Wrong, they had net profits 15 out of 18 quarters from 2018-2022 https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-income-quarterly/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom...
    - arrrg 3y ago
      Also, probably fairly considered the cost of doing business, but that includes a substantial fine Twitter had to pay. And Covid troubles. Just good to know for context. I’m really not sure where this narrative is coming from. It‘s always so weird to me. Why be so wrong?
starlevel003 3y ago
> Compute, and in the end, energy, has a cost. making sure that nobody can see ads by ratelimiting them too hard really helps with this, or so I'm told