They are literally throwing away revenue with every denied impression. An act of desperation obviously. My take: they broke something and need to shed load to keep the site running. The "extreme scraping" thing is the usual Musk BS.
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?