• Bagel (he/him)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Image Transcription: Twitter Post

    Elon Musk, @elonmusk

    To address extreme levels of data scrapting & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:

     

    - Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day

    - Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day

    - New unverified accounts to 300/day

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  • Cubes@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Lol there’s probably so many scrapers because he made the API so expensive

    • FlihpFlorp@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m not tech expert in fact I’m quite dumb when it comes to tech.

      BUT HOW DOES ONE MANAGE TO DDOS YOURSELF HOW CAN… I… WHAT

      • pancakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        When the cringy rich dingus tells you to code something that is impossible to do with the current infrastructure and the timeframe but instead of explaining because you know he’ll have a temper tantrum, you just do the best you can knowing it won’t work but are already looking for other jobs so you don’t actually care that much.

    • Monologue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      this is so fucking funny, let me grab my popcorn as i watch all the corporate social media sites shit themselves

  • NPVT@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    And why the hell would you subscribe to a stupid billionaires Twitter and pay him even More money?

  • bxyrk@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Gah, all you people in here are gonna have me jumping into mastodon before long…

    This federated thing is pretty dang cool.

  • Norgur@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Okay, I might not have gotten the lingo yet: I see so many posts about “Rule” and I don’t get it. Can someone ELI5?

    • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      The old subreddit had one rule: you had to make a post before leaving. People started just saying “rule” in the title as a joke about begrudgingly complying with the rule.

  • popemichael@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I wonder if Reddit is going to do this next…

    I can see them making people log in to see the posts.

    I can see Reddit limiting upvotes per day. Only 300 but “unlimited” with Reddit premium, etc

    Reddit just loves going full Twitter

  • Tetra@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    Real talk, at this point it really just seems like a conscious effort at destroying the platform. Musk is definitely a fucking idiot, but there’s no way even someone as unintelligent as he is would think this is a remotely “good” way to run a social media website.

    I’m convinced now his goal was always to just destroy Twitter.

    • Nepenthe@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Honestly, I’m not convinced. I think he’s just really that dumb. I showed it to someone else who works in IT and their reaction was that it sounded like a lot of management they’ve worked with: people who have no idea under god how anything works and refuse to listen to why their idea is functionally terrible. Even if you swear up and down it will ruin the entire product, they want it done now, because they want it.

      That seems perfectly in line with the kind of moron I’ve heard he is.

      • OngoGablogian@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 years ago

        I think you’re dead on. Elon is trying to make Twitter work, but he doesn’t understand it at all. He doesn’t understand what they’re commodifying, who their customers are, or why people use Twitter in the first place.