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The comedy writes itself
Holy crap that’s funny as hell
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
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.
as someone pointed out on the Mastodon thread, a large chunk of the employees still left are on visas and they can’t just quit …
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The web app is making requests to services that the backend rejects. And apparently the frontend just keeps trying to access those services over and over again. I do wonder if it is a cache issue though. That does seem like an insanely obvious oversight.
this is so fucking funny, let me grab my popcorn as i watch all the corporate social media sites shit themselves
This is comedy gold
God the man’s so fucking STUPID
This website sure looks like it’s fit to become the X everything app…
Is this real??
I can’t imagine it’s hard to scroll past 600 posts in a day if you use twitter a lot.
I never really used twitter, but if I used it like i use ANY other social media site, yeah. I would fill that up in like an hour… and I use these sites all day long…
I still have my Twitter, I’ll go check.
23 min
This is some top notch investigative journalism right here.
LOLOLOL i appreciate you so much
My only significant use for twitter is smut, so… Yeah plenty of time 🤣
Oh, absolutely. It seriously discourages any kind of conversation, because no one will want to read through the replies and waste their content limit.
All attention will be skewed from heavily favoring big accounts to catering ONLY to big accounts, who may see a drop off in fan interaction for the same reason. People respond to celebrity accounts to gush and ask venue/content questions and such. This is the death knell to any of those questions ever being seen.
For myself, I used to follow a TON of microflashfic accounts, which by self-imposed rules are short, concise stories told in 140 characters or less. A bit like r/twosentencehorror but they tended to feel a lot more impactful.
I loved and miss them, and I consider it a lost art that I wish I could bring at least to mastodon. But because they fit in less than a single tweet by necessity, I could easily read through a hundred in 20 minutes if I just went through the tag.
And if comments count as tweets, 600 is a very low number.
So, once you’re done your 600 posts, you’ll go somewhere else where you can scroll endlessly, then slowly find yourself more and more going to that somewhere else instead of twitter. Elon twitler Musk is an idiot.
Soon you will only have access to the post button 24 times a day. Elon gotta watch his limit.
Oh, Elon won’t have a limit. Elon Mode is a standard feature in Elon’s products.
If this man had any kind of limit placed on his twitter account he would get so physically ill that heroin withdrawal will look pleasant
Also could be that they are scaling down systems
Im just saying, he hasn’t been paying bills and it’s the first of the month.
Yeah. That feels more likely. Twitter has been running for years and likely isn’t a stranger to something like this.
Yeah something I thought since he was “forced” to buy twitter, was he would just burn it to the ground. What does he care?
Well he didn’t come up with all the money by himself. He has investors including, I believe the Saudis, so just burning it all down wouldn’t end well for him.
Why would that affect these metrics?
Less servers able to serve requests means either get overloaded and have downtime, or rate limit and stay up.
Both are bad, but rate limiting is less bad.
I see, I guess at that scale API requests add up. I suppose it is a solution, and if replies don’t count, the limits are rather reasonable.
Yeah, exactly.
Also worth mentioning, the scale of Twitter also means that they have contractual obligations when it comes to uptime (for advertisers etc), so downtime could be very vostly indeed.
Imagine making it harder to engage with your platform that depends on engagement to exist.
So paywall Twitter? Cool.
Even paying users have a rate limit. It’s a ridiculous idea, especially financially.
Lol there’s probably so many scrapers because he made the API so expensive
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
Premium gets you a super upvote worth 10 regular votes
Please God don’t give them ideas
They already do that for NSFW posts, and they’re inconsistent about it. Sometimes you just have to click "I’m over 18”, but mostly it asks you to log in
This will just kill the big accounts that generate a majority of the engagement
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?
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.
Duuuuuude thank you. I was kinda close going on context but it makes sense now!
Trust me, it took weeks/months of trying to get the context then as well lmao.
Gah, all you people in here are gonna have me jumping into mastodon before long…
This federated thing is pretty dang cool.
does this guy even use his own apps
He doesn’t even use his own brain.
He likes to watch the numbers go up but beyond that, I suppose less than we might think.
the rules don’t apply to him
Oh boy, here come twit1@funnydomainname.tk, twit2@funnydomainname.tk, twit3@funnydomainname.tk, and my favorite: twit753@funnydomainname.tk.
Then they’ll just do this sort of thing based on IP address and I’ll have to start yelling at my dad for looking at too many tweets
Daaaad, get off
the phonetwitter, i want to usethe internettwitter.
“see? Despite limiting access we actually gained users”
He didn’t actually say that, did he? That would be really stupid, even for him.
he did
He’s crazy
To Elon’s credit (🤮) he did say temporary limits. Of course he lies constantly so who knows.
You are really underestimating his stupidity.
Managed to use up my limit in about 1 hour
