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Twitter has started blocking unregistered users

Elon Musk may have consulted /pol/ about the scraping thing yesterday. He may have posted as 'The Antichrist !SATANZ0Gpo.' and 'The Antichrist !ImUpO/666'. A user recommended rate limits and issues with rate limits are being reported today. Below is a post from 'The Antichrist !SATANZ0Gpo', in reponse to the rate limit suggestion, that says: "Bringing up these ideas with the engineers right now." (the thread isn't safe for work).
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/432771634/#q432780864

There are a couple of other threads from yesterday where 'The Antichrist !SATANZ0Gpo.' and 'The Antichrist !ImUpO/666' explain a little more about what's going on with twitter. I'm indifferent toward Elon Miusk but I hate twitter and I hope it fails.
 
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Twitter has been bad all day, lots of "Cannot retrieve tweets at this time" messages when trying to read threads
 
Bogative said:
He took away the authoritarian left's ability to censor their political opposition and they ******* hate him for it.
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That's what all the ex lefties I know think, so it's weird to see how hated he is on this forum.
I am not sure how but I see Twitter fine still. I think I must have made an account on this Samsung some time back but treat it as read only.
 
My guess is that this is the first day of a new quarter and Twitter literally has no cash to pay its cloud vendors so they have to cut usage.

Someone said their google hosting expired on June 30.
 
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Thinking about it, it's probably more along the lines of, something went badly wrong and they don't know what it was, or how to fix it because, Elon fired all the staff, so they need to pretend they meant to do it, so people don't realise how woefully incompetent the remaining staff are.
 
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This could be the heart of it
I might have made a good guess about Google servers earlier.

More platform instability could be in Twitter's near future. In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company's Google Cloud servers.

Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract's June 30th renewal date.

Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google's infrastructure before the contract expires, but the effort is "running behind schedule," putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company acquired in 2018 to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline.
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https://www.engadget.com/twitter-ha...-pay-its-google-cloud-contract-161936042.html
 
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It's better than that. And Musk is a bigger fool than I thought.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
To address extreme levels of data scraping & 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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Yes I did just check. That is genuine
 
I'm sure the advertisers are going to be thrilled that user engagement is being so heavily restricted.
 
- 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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I find those number astounding. Limited to those amounts? No one is "reading" that many posts. Obviously it's data miners, but I can't see what useful info they would get from Twitter. (No, you don't have to tell me what it would be. Don't care.)
 
It seems to be effecting a hug number of unverified users though, you soon zip through 600
 
alfaniner said:
I find those number astounding. Limited to those amounts? No one is "reading" that many posts.
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The language here is misleading, though. Yes, no average user genuinely reads 600 tweets a day; but the average user could easily view (read: scroll past) more than 600 tweets in a five to ten minute session or two, assuming he's only stopping to engage with a handful that catch his interest.

Recall that Musk recently began reclassifying "views" as the number of times a given tweet appears on a user's browser screen for any length of time, in order to inflate certain users' engagement numbers.
 
It's a way of forcing people to pay for the blue 'verified' tick
Also the number of spam 'promoted' advert tweets has increased over the last few months, you get one for every three or four regular tweets in a thread
 
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It's a way of forcing people to pay for the blue 'verified' tick
Also the number of spam 'promoted' advert tweets has increased over the last few months, you get one for every three or four regular tweets in a thread
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Yep, to both of these. The 'promoted' stuff is all crypto, gold, and AI spam.

Meanwhile Musk has announced a slight rise in temporary limits. Posting a link for the evidences; apologies to PC users.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675214274627530754
 
At least one person has observed that Twitter's implementation of the block to non-logged-in views neglected to account for the fact that its own web app will continuously ping Twitter's servers until it retrieves content to populate the page with. Since that is now "never" thanks to the block, Twitter is effectively DDOSing itself because every time someone loads the home page without being logged in the web app begins spamming ten server requests per second in an endless loop.
 
This is amazing.

I've never had a twitter account but over the last year I've followed lots of links to tweets posted here and elsewhere regarding the war in Ukraine. Now if I click on a link I get an error message and twitter launches a DDOS attack on itself.

We are in the presence of genius.
 
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