Recently twitter broke the site by implementing rate limits, rendering it near unusable. Regressive leftists responded to this fuckup as expected by gloating about Elon Musk is about to ruin his investment.
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It's so absurd that someone could hit their limit by reading a feed of the people they follow in less than a minute.
There is more to this story than just forbidding freeloaders, now its affecting registered users too. This is the action of a site owner who is potentially in financial trouble and hasn't paid the hosting bill.
Rumors around right now is that they didn't pay their bills. I guess their contract with Google Cloud expired today because of their refusal to pay so I wonder if it's because of that. "Rate limit" until they pay or find a new cloud provider.
In the meantime they are probably fielding many angry phone calls from their advertisers. I mean you can't even view ads when you hit the limit, it's almost comical.
I saw another rumor guessing that they made some change that fucked up the API and the rate-limiting thing is cover for that bug. I don't know why they would autoplay videos in the timeline if they are worried about bandwidth costs.