Fwiw there's a post trending on mastodon that they DDOS'd themselves as a result of forcing logins to view tweets.
Or hard pushing for Twitter Blue subscriptions, which have 10x the rate limit.
Now there are only very low-quality ads by drop-shipping companies left. I bet they don‘t pay as much as the big brand names before.
Right. I just don't grasp how people don't understand he is surely flat out lying.
Any estimates for how much?
But given that they now require users to be logged in, it should be computationally cheap to drop unauthenticated requests at the front door before they incur real expense.
It'd also be cheap to just blackhole datacentre IP space.
The sort of attack that would require this level of limits is malware on tens of thousands of residential machines that can use a user's existing Twitter session cookies. I'm really skeptical that's the case.
How do you explain it suddenly being a problem today and not, say, during the recent World Cup when not only the AI scraping would have been happening but el Morko himself was crowing about how much extra traffic they were handling?
I am not really convinced though, I think it's just plain old incompetence and hubris. But then, it's 2023 so who knows.
Yep. Elon clearly lost his motivation for Mars at some point, either because he was confronted with unshakeable evidence that his goals were impossible to achieve, or because he just got bored and distracted.
My guess is that the latter explanation is closer to the mark. But on the other hand, learning that his dream was out of reach could easily have led to the kind of dissipative, self-destructive loss of focus that we've seen from him over the past couple of years.
For those of us who were on board with his original vision, he's just another Lucy, holding just another football.