Twitter C/D

It's pretty funny that the final straw for a lot of people was "not letting me look at this site all day long"

who

600 is just rereading my own posts

— Hadas Weiss (@weiss_hadas) July 2, 2023

Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400 for new unverified https://t.co/fuRcJLifTn

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023

you awake from a deep trance,
step away from the phone
to see your friends & family

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 2, 2023

I hate that a musky loser was able to destroy something that, despite all the shit, was providing us with rapid news, a way to organize quickly, a place for mutual aid and a chance to form communities. I mean - of course it was always going to happen, but still.

— âpihtawikosisân (@apihtawikosisan) July 1, 2023

apologies, but does anyone here happen to have a Bluesky invite they might be willing to share with ... uh ... me?

Same same.

Same same.

Whatever you've done is hurting genuine users and is having a negative knock-on effect to verified users.
My followers can't like my tweets because they've hit a limit of liking.
See how mad that is?
You've actually stopped folk being able to express their positive feelings.

— Hedgehog Cabin (@HedgehogCabin) July 1, 2023

bluesky’s giving me a “account creation temporarily disabled” error right now, boo

Yeah, I think they paused it because they had an overwhelming rush of people signing up, for some reason.

it seems to be working fine today theyll prob turn reg back on soon

hell is empty and all the shitposters are here (on bluesky)

caek otm.

There’s no reason to believe this is related to their Google Cloud infrastructure. In addition to caek’s point that it wasn’t used for essential services, it’s, as far as I know, unprecedented for an account of Twitter’s size to be immediately suspended by _any_ cloud provider. Especially on Google Cloud as Google has the reputation of trying to save every possible deal. Nevertheless, it’s a useful reminder that cloud providers, for whatever reason, don’t have anything close to the regulatory framework other utilities do, so I think it’s still possible for them to immediately suspend customers.

I think the story isn’t more complicated than a cascading failure that’s extremely challenging to debug when the people who wrote the systems are MIA. I imagine this is why the engineers want to rewrite.

apologies, but does anyone here happen to have a Bluesky invite they might be willing to share with ... uh ... me?

― alpine static, Sunday, July 2, 2023 5:02 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I’ve been getting some every few days. I’ll post them when I have them. But maybe they’ll slow down sending invite codes for a few days?

the weird rate limit was a nice little window into how twitter hydrates user timeline caches and what is/isn’t pre-populated

Some real high school vibes at Twitter right now, everyone on the site is actively celebrating the it’s demise while plotting ways to break it further

Yeah GCP doesn’t just cut off customers that spend hundreds of millions a year on the first of the month at midnight UTC.

There’s apparently a specific service to do with the creation and modification of load balancing/network abuse rules that ran on GCP. Unexpected loss of that could have triggered this problem but seems more likely that they shut it down deliberately last month to save money and effectively tied their hands behind their back when whatever actually caused this problem (which admittedly could have been actual abuse like musk seems to think) started off. These systems are so complicated and interconnected and it’s so hard to reason about whether it’s safe to remove a service. I can see why a rewrite is tempting when the only people who had a chance of reasoning like that are on a beach somewhere.

i will make them a new website i think i understand react server components now

I love doing my job at Twitter, where I am CEO. My job is liking the tweets of my CTO, who is also my boss. I have made no formal statement about my company effectively shutting down on a holiday weekend, and have left this up to my CTO/boss, who seems confused all the time pic.twitter.com/3wE713ff03

— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) July 2, 2023

Funny bcz it's true.

All of us still on Twitter as it gets worse and worse every day pic.twitter.com/6eASJtPJLn

— Sophie Hall (@SophLouiseHall) July 2, 2023

THE FIRST MAN IN LINE GRAB A TWEET. THE SECOND MAN GRAB REPLIES. WHEN THE FIRST MAN IS RATE LIMITED, THE SECOND MAN PICKS UP THE TWEET AND POSTS pic.twitter.com/VSKyD5yUSp

— Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin 🐀 (@VoicesByZane) July 2, 2023

You may think Twitter is dying but when there’s a Man Utd fan releasing a 1 hour 49 minute film of his own goalkeeper’s mistakes then I can assure you this app has never been more alive. https://t.co/OgHINCcyMF

— Hank Azulinger (@iammrazul) July 2, 2023

You may think Twitter is dying but when there’s a Man Utd fan releasing a 1 hour 49 minute film of his own goalkeeper’s mistakes then I can assure you this app has never been more alive. https://t.co/OgHINCcyMF

— Hank Azulinger (@iammrazul) July 2, 2023

Twitter's stopped me liking posts this morning.

On some level I'm glad as I don't enjoy the platform and am using it out of habit / to distract from a sentence that's proving difficult to construct.

And now I can't post either. I might actually get some work done today!

third day of this shit going on when has a major site ever been broken for three days its crazy

one would think theyd try to roll back whatever they did to cause this but perhaps elon doesnt want to

I still haven't hit a limit.

it was fine for me yesterday but down today

All fine both yesterday and today.

Not sure some dude ever still posts to ilx, but he's saying all of his tweets from the month of June have vanished.

lol gdamn

420 dimensional chess

can somebody erase all my tweets too please

All fine both yesterday and today.

mine is back up now

I haven't run into any of these issues this week, is that because I only go on via desktop? I deleted my app months ago. (Also I never post, I just lurk.)

i use the website mostly too

I have never registered an account and certainly now never will, and I am unable to see any tweets.

well that part of Elon's plan worked then

Yeah, that is definitely in effect. Which is SO DUMB, because Twitter has typically had a lot (no idea how much) of traffic from non-users who follow links. Which is good for advertisers, obviously. And since the blue ticks are obviously not paying any bills, he needs as many eyeballs as he can get. But obviously trying to figure out the "business plan" here is useless, there isn't one.

I mean half the stories that get pushed out feature Twitter embeds that have needed context for the story that the article doesn't make redundant.

today I found a weird one where I went to an article and every embedded tweet showed up as the first ever tweet by Jack Dorsey, "just setting up my twittr", instead of the tweet that was supposed to appear there.

Do you pay the $8
― Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 3 July 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Imagine paying to use twitter after all this...someone somewhere is doing it.

plenty of idiots are

not the most original observation but elon came from industries where you sell things not advertising and he really thinks you should be able to sell twitter but its just not true

and its a well established industry truth, but he thinks hes smarter