Elon Musk | Doer of things on X and sad little man
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Worked in journalism for FT, NYT etc
I agree social media's business model is working now. But it is so monopolistic it cannot stand for free speech and freedom of expression either imo.
Insufferable prick.
Journalists are paid for their articles…
I don’t think so. A social media is as strong as its user base. If they started charging except the hardcore addicts most would migrate to alternatives or quit. If you lost even 40% of your Instagram/Facebook friends/followers paying that monthly bill would seem less and less attractive.
The day is not far away when some big tech creates a Twitter competitor. As soon as the recession lightens up. I’m sure Google won’t mind taking another stab at the social media game. They would generate so much potential data if they owned a major social media service.
Just looked at it and it seems to count threads on your main page AND replies in them amongst the 600, whether you click on them or not. Absolutely ridiculous implementation of a pathetic new "feature"
I don't think this is the case.
Joe Biden's official account was also struck with that silly limit.
Wasn't that actually Olberman hitting his rate limit for viewing posts? I can see Biden's posts no problem.
So good. So clever. So much wow.
Current events section will struggle, people will have to post their own opinions rather than tweets
Might just give me the needed push to quit the app. Football fans on there are insufferable anyway.
I agree but the issue right now is we get too much social and not enough media.
Have not learned anything on these platforms lately. I get my (limited) knowledge from reading up classic newspapers.
Well then something is even more broken with it then. Because simply scrolling past posts with around 600 replies total, then clicking on one brings up the message without fail.
In fact, even clicking on a trending topic is breaking it, so maybe it is something more severe.
Hurrr durrr the scraping was affecting the user experience so I made the user experience even worse. I am a smart man.
Doesn't happen for me. It's just broken as always.
It’s one way to get people off the platform. Egomaniacal cnut.
You need to find better people to follow or better subs to read.
It wasn't happening for me either when it all kicked off. Now it has caught up
In fact, it's not loading at all for me now, stuck on "something went wrong".
It wasn't happening for me either when it all kicked off. Now it has caught up
In fact, it's not loading at all for me now, stuck on "something went wrong".
Keep scrolling, at this are you'll make Twitter HQ blow up
This is insane. I am losing my shit honestly
Keep scrolling, at this are you'll make Twitter HQ blow up
I have been experimenting in various ways
Definitely more to this than a limit he is trying to impose though. Whether it's the cloud thing, or the fact the few engineers left have borked something more serious, it's fecked.
Apartheid-bred cnut.
Yeah, it must have been a screenshot from Olbermann's perspective. That's not a biden involving Biden, my bad.
I hope it goes bust ASAP. fecking Musk is an absolute fraud.
It’s increased now
Cant see it. Because Elon thinks I’ll make an account to view it. Dumb feck that he is.
Not that I'm a huge expert on these things, but using some resources from google probably doesn't mean they don't have their own data centers, say for example they use a hybrid solution, where they run most of their stuff in their own data centers and use cloud service providers to book extra resources to deal with spikes, because that may just be cheaper and more flexible than buying all the hardware (for some theoretical (temporary) maximum load) yourself.
I mean that's genuinely possible. When he bought Twitter he gave direct orders to basically not pay any bills or rent. Twitter is being sued by multiple companies over it, as well as various former employees.
They already lost ~80% of their pre-takeover advertising menu after Elon's initial shenanigans. But yeah, driving users away from your platform is going to kill any advertising business and purely move revenues to subscriptions.
Saw speculation that this is because Twitter has not being paying bills to their cloud company (Google's GCP being one) and they have rate limited Twitter's access to the cloud databases being used which now has been passed on to the users in this rationed manner. Will either be resolved by some negotiation in few days or might just lead to bankruptcy and shutdown of the whole site.
So I signed in for the first time in forever. Scrolled past hundreds and hundreds of tweets. Conclusion: Scrolling past tweets does not count towards your limit. I also clicked on an Elon Tweet with a massive number of replies and scrolled all the way to the end. I can still read tweets.
I wanted to break it. What gives?
Edit: Hooray I hit my limit!
I wanted to break it. What gives?
Edit: Hooray I hit my limit!
I’d love to read this as it looks like an interesting thread but I can’t as I’ve hit my limit.
Errm almost all big companies world wide use Cloud now. Even a company as big as Apple used a different cloud company for a lot of their storage rather than their own infrastructure. All SM companies like Snap, TikTok also use it. Insta uses one by FB. Pretty much Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are the only companies who can afford to manage their own cloud infra without any reliance on 3P ones. OCI too I guess.
Just saw the edit, i thought you’d hacked in to the matrix for a second there.
Is 600 tweets a lot? My usage is limited to what's posted here and on Reddit. Does scrolling through replies count as viewing separate tweets?
Edit: Just saw Ekkie's post.
Edit: Just saw Ekkie's post.
Maintaining your own cloud infrastructure if you have to cater to a worldwide scale of users is actually more expensive when you take into account reliability and maintenance. It is cheaper to just rely on proven solutions like AWS, GCP, Azure. Take Walmart for example who have their own cloud solution via Walmart Labs. But their Indian subsidiary, Flipkart, which has to handle a huge amount of user load on events equivalent to Black friday in India, had to switch to use some storage solutions from GCP since Walmart's own cloud solution was simply unable to maintain the required availability. All big enterprise firms in US who previously relied on on the premises server infra are now moving to cloud for similar reasons.
Could this be the end of Twitter?
He is cool (although the NVidia CEO Jenson Huang might be the coolest and most down to Earth person CEO I have ever met).
Yeah, this would kill it off surely?
Yeah, the same way Trump is cool. Low-level stuff.
