However, I just googled "can't view twitter without account" and found records of people complaining about this problem in the pre-Musk days as well. Not that I don't blame Musk for this instance, but Twitter's jankiness does precede him.
you could at least view a tweet you were linked to!!!! now it's completely walled off, which is good, fuck twitter
― ivy (BradNelson), Saturday, 1 July 2023 16:05 (ten months ago) link
So weird. Couldn’t see any activity with my most active account, saw this thread and surmised it could be cause I blocked too many blue checks. That sucks cause the main appeal of the site now is as a game where I try to block as many as possible. So I tried to log in with an alt account, I could see the feed but the account is locked for breaking rules (your guess is as good as mine regarding which rule they may have arbitrarily enforced this time). But immediately after logging in with the alt account I went back to my main account and it’s now showing the feed. This is a real spit-and-duct-tape situation isn’t it.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Saturday, 1 July 2023 16:29 (ten months ago) link
Haven’t heard much of BlueSky lately. Another flash in the pan?
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Saturday, 1 July 2023 16:32 (ten months ago) link
its pretty active over there idk def not dead yet
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 16:40 (ten months ago) link
it will only heat up when im invited
― mark s, Saturday, 1 July 2023 16:42 (ten months ago) link
what lol he cannot be serious
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:11 (ten months ago) link
been fun folks
― Clay, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:12 (ten months ago) link
banned for the crime of reading
― mark s, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:13 (ten months ago) link
lol what a joke
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:15 (ten months ago) link
are we lead to believe that it costs twitter more to serve a tweet than they make in ad revenue on that tweet
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:15 (ten months ago) link
mb hes just making stuff up to cover for the down time
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:16 (ten months ago) link
is that 600 unique tweets, or does the same 60 seen 10 times in a day count as 600?
― koogs, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:28 (ten months ago) link
i can read stuff w/my little account that i don't use much, viz that there is a #francehasfallen hashtag trending which is i imagine mostly super-racist 👎🏽
my main account is stuck on "retry"
notifications is working but you can't click thru to a conversation you just get the reply tweet and a flickering blue circle like it's trying to keep up but can't
time for elon to go look at some titanic wreckage in a carbon-titanium tube
― mark s, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:29 (ten months ago) link
france has fallen, long live france
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:30 (ten months ago) link
"Not able to look into it"
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:36 (ten months ago) link
It's even crashing Bluesky because clearly everyone is running over there in a heap. (Mastodon is still bopping along.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:36 (ten months ago) link
This plus requiring people to have an account to view posts seems completely untenable. Why purposefully drive down views across the board?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:44 (ten months ago) link
hes trying to get people to buy twitter blue, which is so dumb, the paid base for this kind of service is always going to be a small percentage of of the total users, which means you should be trying to increase the total users, not decrease them
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:46 (ten months ago) link
I'll be really shocked if this causes a significant increase in paid accounts
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:48 (ten months ago) link
Hahah anything but.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:49 (ten months ago) link
recall him and his cronies talking on there before he bought it how a paid subscription is a no brainer, they were all saying "yeah id pay 10 dollars a month to be able to write long posts" and so forth, lol
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:51 (ten months ago) link
I don’t know how they count this — is he counting tweets and replies or just tweets? Even if the latter, it seems like among other things he’s penalizing the blue checks because it’s severely limiting the number of people they can reach with their prioritized tweets.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:03 (ten months ago) link
Feel like admitting there’s a read limit on blue ticks was a bad idea too
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:09 (ten months ago) link
We wanted to understand why Elon Musk’s plan to severely engagement on Twitter makes sense for Twitter’s bottom line. So we talked to three unvaccinated RFK Jr. supporters at a Tesla charging station in Menlo Park.— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) July 1, 2023
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:10 (ten months ago) link
losing my mind if this is actually the explanation. choosing to believe this as it is the funniest and simplest answer pic.twitter.com/1bG7WdmA0Q— yuuko from nichijou (@headfallsoff) July 1, 2023
― mark s, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:11 (ten months ago) link
haaa
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:13 (ten months ago) link
Can someone explain what it is because I cannot see it lmao
― frogbs, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:22 (ten months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/35s1S2B.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:23 (ten months ago) link
the extreme levels of data-scraing are coming from inside the house
― mark s, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:29 (ten months ago) link
As someone who loves twitter I have to say it's delicious
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:31 (ten months ago) link
wait so I just can’t read twitter for the rest of the day now?
― k3vin k., Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:33 (ten months ago) link
who knows
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:33 (ten months ago) link
600 is like a couple of hours posting (in my TL) on a regular day.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:35 (ten months ago) link
This.
i know we all love goofin' around on here, but i am once again absolutely fucking gutted by the imminent loss of an irreplaceable archive of first person accounts of little moments in history. losing the ability to search the online landfill for these artifacts is devastating.— molly conger (@socialistdogmom) July 1, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:36 (ten months ago) link
I am not gutted though, but it's a loss.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:37 (ten months ago) link
otm, also its funny
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:39 (ten months ago) link
another good one if he wants to live the realness life
https://i.ibb.co/y0h3f0S/Screen-Shot-2023-07-01-at-2-38-27-PM.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:41 (ten months ago) link
oops wrong thread
Just love how I have to scroll through adverts as part of my 600
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:44 (ten months ago) link
lol bluesky is down too, prob from people going on there to complain that twitters down
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:45 (ten months ago) link
or at least its very slow
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 18:46 (ten months ago) link
Does it again
The lurkers are in my thoughts today.— Don Hughes (@getfiscal) July 1, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 July 2023 19:08 (ten months ago) link
Bluesky, Mastodon...don't care just let me post!!
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 July 2023 19:10 (ten months ago) link
https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3jzi55ro3d72k
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 1 July 2023 19:31 (ten months ago) link
I've been using it for a bit and it's pretty good (I'm @allen).
Invite codes:
bsky-social-vc3gm-tedntbsky-social-pd6a6-stq62bsky-social-l2a3b-ddey7bsky-social-rw4mu-zmmha
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 1 July 2023 19:33 (ten months ago) link
Cool just got a code off a mutual. Will join next week.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 July 2023 19:34 (ten months ago) link
Reckon this stupidity will be reversed but wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 1 July 2023 19:35 (ten months ago) link
not sure if i said this upthread but i suspect musk is just pretending with the new rate rules to cover for whats actually just a bug
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 July 2023 19:37 (ten months ago) link
im blueskyd thx allen ❤️
― mark s, Saturday, 1 July 2023 19:45 (ten months ago) link
yes, same, thanks allen! that said, it's so slow that right now I can't seem to follow anyone lol
― rob, Saturday, 1 July 2023 19:50 (ten months ago) link