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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So does this mean that the twitter freaks can't use the site to harass artists that draw a character looking curvy not fat as that seems like a win for me.
If it's free, you're the product.
The ad markets collapsing proves that social media addicts ain't worth paying for.
Twitter crashing and burning, Reddit catabolizing its mods, Meta losing several billion in market capitalization: the snake can't eat its tail fast enough to stay full.
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.
I mean gloating or not are they wrong? How can you run a social media company by making it unable to be used it for any social use?
Literally reading one tweet from Musk sends you over the limit and locks you out for the day. He says it's a temporary measure but how many people and advertisers will leave in the meantime? Its fundamentally unusable right now.
Can you elaborate on that? I rarely use twitter but I just loaded up this tweet and was able to see all the replies, then go back to my home page and see tweets from who I follow - which includes a lot of annoying auto-play videos reminding me why I don't look at twitter. Reading tweets is not locking me out.
So no one knows right now what counts as a "view" under the new limits. People seem to be locked out when they look at one twitter thread that has replies over the limit. When I logged in today, I was only had able to view one thread (Which was Musk's) before it started "limiting" me.
I'm not alone in this, there's quite a bit of discussion today and similar among alot of people. Even refreshing a page for many people is enough to hit the limit and lock the site.
Yeah I don’t think they’re wrong, and obviously I don’t say that about leftists lightly. The dumbass isn’t “fixing” Twitter or “restoring” it, he’s just constantly making changes because he can and no underling will push back because he’s made it clear he’ll fire anyone on a whim. He got lucky with Community Notes actually being a useful new feature but he’s mostly just managed to keep himself in the news with all the chaos, which in the end may be all he really even wanted out of this acquisition.
None, because if Twitter comes back up they will flock back to their dopamine hits and massive audiences. There are no alternatives and the ones that do exist are niche, dead, or specialized.
I suspect he knows this, and its why he isn't afraid panicking at this colossal fuckup.
I think it depends on how long it lasts, because this both hurts advertisers and the audience they would try to reach. Even if tomorrow everything was back to normal, it would definitely give them pause that the platform would do this to them with no notice.
It's very similar in concept to the whole seizing Russian assets shitshow that's going on. Yes America is one of the biggest markets and the reserve currency but if they can unilaterally steal your assets because "you did the wrong thing" would you want to keep any assets there or do business with them as a foreign nation?
It's amusing because even if Elon does end up running Twitter into the ground, which I am extremely doubtful will actually happen, it's still a net positive. One year ago twitter was a hive of leftist propaganda. If it collapses, the fact that it became slightly less shit before it did doesn't change the fact that it's a net L for leftists. A big fat L.
Twitter was never an investment; it was Elon cashing out, selling his Tesla shares at the top, and buying a new toy with the proceeds because the site triggered his autism.
Granted, some positives have come out of it like Community Notes, but when Elon's not fucking random employees and paying child support, he's playing with his model train set called Twitter.