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It’s possible that the enforcement of a rate limit isn’t because of AI scraping, but rather because they failed to migrate before the June 30th deadline.

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[–] WorldWideLem@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what will happen with Twitter. Maybe it succeeds, maybe it fails, maybe it just keeps humming along in mediocrity. But what I do know is that wherever it ends up, there was surely a much simpler way to get there.

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[–] faltuuser@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] d4rknusw1ld@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Let it burn.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Twitter was an important unifying communications tool during the Arab Spring. The Arab spring was a threat to biz as usual in places like Saudi Arabia. The second largest investor in Twitter is Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia killed and dismembered a journalist from the US, more or less in plain sight. Elon is now killing and dismembering Twitter in plain sight to limit its power as a unifying tool that stands as a demonstrable, active threat to capitalism and oligarchs around the world.

Billionaires do favors for other billionaires. It's part of why spez is trying to tank Reddit. Remember how dangerous Reddit was to capitalism's status quo around the time of GME/Robinhood/Antiwork recently.

The specific moment we're in right now is meant to shatter consolidated organizing power on Reddit as we splinter into several smaller alternative platforms (or for some, disconnect entirely). Not saying we shouldn't be in Lemmy, but calling out the larger reality of the moment.

Billionaires do favors for other billionaires.

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[–] tylerthehuman@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is old information being recycled to spread misinformed? they renewed their hosting with google several weeks ago.

[–] banksymimosa@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Can't wait to find out he spent/lost $2B so he wouldn't have to pay Google $1B

[–] LemmynySnicket@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

The new ceo restarted the payment supposedly, so if it is because of Google, that would mean they didn't renew which isn't on Elon for failing to pay.... unless his petulant refusal to pay when he was in charge made them refuse to renew.

[–] ironcrotch@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Classic Elon playbook. Make wild statement in public to cover for a wild business decision which is the real result. "HAHA oh yea Twitter is down cuz of these limits I put in place, not the fact that one of our core cloud providers shut us off."

[–] toasteecup@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a post earlier today, but the post limit implementation legitimately did take down Twitter.

In short, twitter ddosed it's self by making 10 calls to its self every couple of time intervals (a minute or less) which would fail, refresh the UI and kick off even more self requests.

[–] ironcrotch@aussie.zone 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah the classic deploy to prod right before the weekend WCGW

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[–] cristalcommons@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

i wonder if we will end using personal webpages with FOSS/affordable domains and integration to forums and video platforms, just to avoid some crazy CEO screwing our content again.

i think social media was good, but we gave the CEOs too much power over our content and accounts.

so... we went from "social media is where society creates media" to "social media is where tech CEO's control and keep society's media hostage".

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[–] markon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is hilarious. Elon musk has shown he's a moron. He's a serial lier. Elon Musk has once again proven himself to be a foolish and dishonest individual.

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[–] Ninja@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Sometimes, I wonder if Elon is really smart? Or he's just super dumb and lucky? The things he said and did are plain weird. I have a feeling Twitter will be going down along with Reddit. Funny thing is, I've never had a Twitter account to start with.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

After these last nine months, it's become brutally and very publicly clear that this dude was lucky to be born rich. Doesn't seem like it was that long ago that the world thought he was a visionary, but oh well, the truth had to come out eventually.

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[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] MysticSmear@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean it’s all speculation at this point. The guy isn’t honest and wouldn’t admit he brought down the whole site due to his hubris.

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