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Maybe. It's really hard for me to believe that a uniform 600 tweets read per _day_ limit for almost _all_ accounts is the best tool they have to mitigate a scr
by cldellow 3y ago
Maybe.
It's really hard for me to believe that a uniform 600 tweets read per _day_ limit for almost _all_ accounts is the best tool they have to mitigate a scraping attack. They likely have great insight into the risk profiles of each account based on age, size, past engagement. This is an incredibly coarse banhammer -- very close to just turning off the servers, IMO. Reasonable if it lasted for an hour, debatable if it lasts for a day, idiotic if it lasts longer.
Would love to see the inside story, hopefully it gets leaked/reported at some point.
- kvetching 3y agoabsolutely insane. indictment on the engineers for lack of creativity. Twitter has been completely inaccessible on my android app all day. I unknowingly used up my rate limit in my bed this morning. There has to be some other motive- possibly related to France protests. Macron announced that social media was to blame
- kergonath 3y agoMusk rate-limiting reading (and not posting) on Twitter worldwide because of localised protests in a single country? You must be joking; this makes no sense at all.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agopg already pointed out to him that there has to be a better way to handle it. I agree.