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• @slightlyoff.bsky.social Alex Russell on bluesky

  What burns most is that they used to have a great web team.  Top people.  Really excellent.  [embedded post]

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  Shocker: Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: “It's amateur hour” - https://waxy.org/ https://waxy.org/...

• @mat @mat on x

  Real pro stuff. Twitter bug causes self-DDOS, related to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits https://waxy.org/...

• @themaxburns Max Burns on x

  [Elon Musk walks past rows and rows of empty desks where Twitter's developers once worked] MUSK: Very concerning! https://waxy.org/...

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  sickkkkkkkkkkk https://waxy.org/... [image]

• @helenkennedy Helen Kennedy on x

  I don't pretend to understand this entirely, but it seems like there might be a very funny reason for all the Twitter drama today. https://waxy.org/...

• r/EnoughMuskSpam r on reddit

  Clown circus: The new logged-in requirement is DDoSing Twitter.  When you need to log in to see a tweet, the tweet page retries loading the tweet 10 times a second.

• @yoyoel.com Yoel Roth on bluesky

  For anyone keeping track, this isn't even the first time they've completely broken the site by bumbling around in the rate limiter.  —  There's a reason the limiter was one of the most locked down internal tools.  Futzing around with rate limits is probably the easiest way to bre…

• @philly66.bsky.social @philly66.bsky.social on bluesky

  So one, he's really trying to drive up subscriptions & two, willing to drive people away from the site.  [embedded post]

• @arctictony.bsky.social Tony Haile on bluesky

  When I met with Elon and his team, one of their big ideas was adding a paywall to Twitter.  Their mental model was the NYT and WSJ...  [embedded post]

• @martinsfp.bsky.social @martinsfp.bsky.social on bluesky

  This is hilarious.  He's killing Twitter.  [embedded post]

• @Gargron@mastodon.social Eugen Rochko on mastodon

  I would prefer it if Elon Musk was destroying his site during the work week.  This isn't the first time.

• @caseynewton@mastodon.social Casey Newton on mastodon

  BTW this is why it was stupid for all those government / emergency services accounts to resume posting on Twitter.  Absolutely unreliable in critical situations

• @caseynewton@mastodon.social Casey Newton on mastodon

  There are so many ways to break a website and by the time he is done Elon will have personally overseen all of them

• @gregpak@mastodon.social Greg Pak on mastodon

  Ha ha ha that site is really gonna die soon.  —  You can only read 600 posts a day, now.  I mean, that's cool.  Solves the doomscrolling problem.  —  https://www.nbcnews.com/...  [image]

• @fawfulfan@mastodon.social Matthew Chapman on mastodon

  In case you don't know the reason Twitter is melting down right now:  —  Elon Musk put in place a new “temporary” rule limiting unverified accounts to reading 600 tweets a day, but that code is bugging out and everyone's hitting the limit immediately, breaking the site and causin…

• @lmc@mastodon.social Lisa C on mastodon

  I think in my Twitter days this would've meant I hit my daily limit by about 6 AM.  —  [image]

• @Andres@mastodon.hardcoredevs.com Andres Jalinton on mastodon

  How to kill #Twitter in less than an hour:  —  1.- Make a production change on a weekend that introduces a bug that create a DDoS to itself.  ( https://sfba.social/...  2.- Rate limit users so they spent all the credits in seconds.  —  3.- Profit (?)

• @el0j@mastodon.gamedev.place Eddy Jansson on mastodon

  I think Musk finally killed twitter for real.  There's ZERO CHANCE the 600 posts/day limit can stand and the site not implode.

• @nixCraft@mastodon.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social on mastodon

  The birdsite is down again.  I see a “Rate limit exceeded” or “Cannot retrieve tweets” error message.  Mastodon has better uptime now.  WTF? #birdsite #twitter

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400 for new unverified https://twitter.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k

• @esthercrawford @esthercrawford on x

  Hubris + no pushback - customer empathy - data = a great way to light billions on fire 🔥 💰 🔥

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Rate limited due to reading all the posts about rate limits

• @jack @jack on x

  And I do hope they consider building on truly censorship-resistant open protocols like bitcoin and nostr to help ease that burden. Good for all, and critical to preserve the open internet.

• @jack @jack on x

  Running Twitter is hard. I don't wish that stress upon anyone. I trust that the team is doing their best under the constraints they have, which are immense. It's easy to critique the decisions from afar...which I'm guilty of...but I know the goal is to see Twitter thrive. It will…

• @nelson @nelson on x

  Lol the Twitter webapp is trying to load something from its internal graphql API and getting a 429 Too Many Requests response. Twitter's Javascript ignores the error and tries again, hundreds of times a second. Twitter is DDOSing itself.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Oh the irony of hitting view limits due to complaining about view limits

• @wongmjane Jane Manchun Wong on x

  Twitter is working on an anti-addiction program for unverified users

• @scottnover Scott Nover on x

  We are watching a historic destruction of wealth: the world's richest man is lighting forty four billion dollar bills on fire. What a treat.

• @jayrosen_nyu Jay Rosen on x

  Sounds to me like Blue is under performing and he thinks this could help. [image]

• @mikeisaac @mikeisaac on x

  honestly blown away by this why? [image]

• @broderick Ryan Broderick on x

  I'm actually starting to think Elon Musk is destroying Twitter on purpose for some kind of tax scheme and/or conservative plot to hobble progressive activists. I don't think you can be genuinely this bad at doing anything and still dress yourself every day. (Maybe he doesn't 🤷🏼‍♂…

• @katienotopoulos Katie Notopoulos on x

  Friendster was a superior product in 2004. But Friendster kept breaking/404ing and so everyone would post to the “Bulletin Board” that there was a new site called MySpace that was ugly but it didn't break.

• @demercy_ @demercy_ on x

  remember when a bunch of people who know how big sites work predicted that the system wouldn't be able to handle people *using* it, and that it was only a matter of time??? this is probably what's happening right now, and he's using a crappy excuse to cover it up. https://twitter…

• @growing_daniel Daniel on x

  Your addiction is about to be broken. We will all be free. See you guys at the park. https://twitter.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @growing_daniel Touch grass again

• @alisonnolan9 Alison Nolan on x

  @jneill If you're on web switch to app or vice versa - you'll get a bit of extra use that way. Seems Twitter is DDOSing itself. [image]

• @theapplehub @theapplehub on x

  Oops 😅 [image]

• @jamesmoran James Moran on x

  If nothing else, let 2023 be the year we all finally realised that billionaires are fucking idiots

• @lanceulanoff Lance Ulanoff on x

  Man in Donut Shop. “A dozen donuts please!” “Sure” Comes back a hour later “A dozen donuts please!” “Sorry, no” “There are dozens of donuts behind you” “I can't serve you and all these other people at the same time.” “You just handed that guy a donut” “He's paying extra” Leaves. …

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  Twitter apparently started paying for Google Cloud again, but the timing is still very odd for this sudden “scraping” issue to happen 🧐 https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @triketora Tracy Chou on x

  twitter poetry [image]

• @alicemazzy Alice Maz on x

  if people are using too much bandwidth by scraping the site maybe twitter should consider building an api

• @cyriakharris Cyriak Harris on x

  Can't decide whether elon musk is the captain of the titanic or if he's the iceberg.

• @katebevan Kate Bevan on x

  Twitter is the carbon-fibre Titan submersible of the internet today

• @nirave @nirave on x

  He came He saw They rate limited Now what... #twitter #RateLimit https://twitter.com/...

• @inafried Ina Fried on x

  The perfect tweet doesn't exi... [image]

• @paulswhtn Paul Berzatto on x

  using twitter through the safari app like it's the dark ages

• @alicegoldfuss @alicegoldfuss on x

  I like how Twitter is now The Producers in that its owner is actively trying to sabotage it and also there are Nazis

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  This broke Twitter for me, making it impossible for me to engage as I have for years. I *post* from a dedicated, logged-in session because there is no alternative, but as a target of state surveillance orders, I *read* via anon sessions (nitter) on a diff VM. Now I can't.... http…

• @mattbinder Matt Binder on x

  lmao [image]

• @jack @jack on x

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• @mnateshyamalan Soul Nate on x

  i'm sad too but this is objectively such a funny way to kill this website [image]

• @nancylevine Nancy Levine Stearns on x

  “Advertisers have fled in droves, raising questions about how the company will make money. Amid what observers have characterized as a chaotic tenure, Musk in May appointed ⁦@lindayacc⁩” as Twitter CEO. #Tesla brand is severely damaged. $TSLA https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @geoconfirmed @geoconfirmed on x

  No words. We are still working on fixes for everything that Twitter (@Elonmusk) changed again. They have one of the best Open Source (Int) platforms ever build. But since Elon took over everything is a disaster. We have to adapt weekly... And that costs our volunteers a lot of...…

• @mikedrucker Mike Drucker on x

  I like that the three working theories for why Twitter broke are: 1.) Twitter is DDoSing itself because Elon is an idiot. 2.) Twitter is losing servers after the company ignored bills because Elon is an idiot. 3.) Twitter hopes to force people to pay because Elon is an idiot.

• @cjc Cristina Cordova on x

  This is all strangely out of a Trump-like playbook: 1) Create disaster via half-baked policy change 2) Users protest in response, resulting in more people talking about Elon/Twitter as a result 3) Revert the change or reduce its impact significantly. Expect praise in return https…

• @mrjamesob James O'Brien on x

  An oh so ‘funny’ tweet from someone who neither cares about nor understands the importance of Twitter to vulnerable & isolated people. Sadly, he owns the platform. https://twitter.com/...

• @matt_levine Matt Levine on x

  honestly limiting everyone to reading 600 tweets a day is the single best product innovation twitter has ever done

• @hnshah @hnshah on x

  This app has now officially become a very large scale SaaS freemium experiment.

• @sarahfrier Sarah Frier on x

  I'm guessing this has been a very expensive day for Twitter. Less tweeting and less scrolling = fewer ads served and viewed, for one. But also just such a loss of trust in Twitter's reliability. https://twitter.com/...

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  *checks the date* 📅 ah yes Twitter [image]

• @markscott82 Mark Scott on x

  Nothing says free speech like limiting people's ability to read stuff on @Twitter, amirite?

• @r_chirgwin Richard Chirgwin on x

  So weird. Some people can see my posts and like them. I can't see anything *but* my own posts.

• @nkulw Noah Kulwin on x

  Even dumber than Musk https://twitter.com/...

• @_asiwajulerry @_asiwajulerry on x

  Elon Musk is another example why landlord and tenant no suppose dey live inside the same house.

• @joannastern Joanna Stern on x

  Elon vs. the data scrapers... #RateLimitExceeded [video]

• @joshelman Josh Elman on x

  Twitter with built in limits seems like a positive thing for global mental health

• @teroterotero @teroterotero on x

  Now my Twitter is working but Blue Sky feed froze because of overload

• @saeeddicaprio @saeeddicaprio on x

  hello guys it's my first day as a twitter software engineer wish me luck [image]

• @modestproposal1 @modestproposal1 on x

  Blowing through rate limits like a stop sign https://twitter.com/...

• @joannastern Joanna Stern on x

  Finally, a Screen Time limit that may actually work. https://twitter.com/...

• @gruber John Gruber on x

  Smooth move, Ex-Lax. https://twitter.com/...

• @whitest_injera @whitest_injera on x

  “i can't believe twitter is free” you won

• @brijwaasi @brijwaasi on x

  Good guy Elon Musk, doing his bit to rid the world of its Twitter addiction #ratelimit #isgood

• @profgalloway Scott Galloway on x

  Business best practice: When changing business model, just spring it on consumers. #surprise!

• @emollick Ethan Mollick on x

  I can query the most powerful AI that is publicly available for free over 300 times a day (using Microsoft Bing in creative mode, which uses GPT-4). But you can only read 600 tweets for free. And Twitter makes money when I read tweets.

• @austin_rief @austin_rief on x

  There's never been a better time to compete with twitter. If I'm Zuck, I'm launching my Twitter competitor today. https://twitter.com/...

• @shl0ms @shl0ms on x

  sorry guys, the CEO of email just announced that you can only read 600 per day

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  Best guess: Twitter tried to do something stupid with their API, they messed it up in a way that will take days, so Elon is doing this new “you can only read 600 posts a day” thing as a cover, and he'll say “after hearing your feedback, we've reversed the policy” when it's fixed.

• @jimmysecuk Jimmy Rushton on x

  Limits on READING tweets? I swear, Elon Musk is a literal simpleton who is determined to totally break this platform. [image]

• @mskidchaos Mansi P on x

  @om @levie If what this tweet says is true then it seems like the scraping is coming from inside the house https://twitter.com/...

• @christapeterso @christapeterso on x

  “Paid accounts can only use the website for 1 hour per day. Everyone else 7 minutes” is really something [image]

• @boygrri @boygrri on x

  just made 6000 posts! can't wait for my friends to see them :D

• @discussingfilm @discussingfilm on x

  this could be one of your 600 tweets for today. [video]

• @imbethmccoll Beth McColl on x

  i really rate the limit. always have. and so to exceed it? just exquisite

• @bzamayo Benjamin Mayo on x

  say what you want about mastodon being confusing but at least the posts load (@bzamayo@mastodon.social)

• @lijukic Luka Ivan Jukic on x

  Non blue ticks collecting their daily tweet rations, 2023 (colorised) [image]

• @derjarjour Michaël Jarjour on x

  If this is indeed a business move to convert more people into Twitter Blue subscribers*, I have notes. *spoiler: it isn't [image]

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  How it started: How it's going: [image]

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  Twitter's strategies are entirely contradictory. You can't be a good place for creators or advertisers if you limit tweet views. It breaks the flywheel of traffic that's needed for the platform to be useful to both sides. A self own that ultimately will have to be reversed.

• @om @om on x

  @levie No one will accuse its owner of being a bright light again!

• @taylorlorenz @taylorlorenz on x

  Elon really said fuck NBA twitter [image]

• @nkulw Noah Kulwin on x

  Because master Wayne, some men are epic https://twitter.com/...

• @jules_su Jules Suzdaltsev on x

  LOL I CANT SEE MY OWN TWEETS AHAHAHAHHA [image]

• @mikebutcher Mike Butcher on x

  Companies are scrapping Twitter because the API was switched from free to astronomically expensive. Simple. Adjust API price, remove login wall & read limits, ad revenues recover. Maybe I should do this job? https://twitter.com/...

• @maxwelltani Max Tani on x

  He finally did the thing that literally forces you to go to the free twitter alternatives https://twitter.com/...

• @trungtphan Trung Phan on x

  Twitter is temporarily limiting users to 6000 read posts per day. Good thing I spent the past 9 months meticulously hand-writing the 25,000 most viral tweets ever onto cue cards and can now revisit them without hitting any limits. https://twitter.com/... [image]

• @ashleyfeinberg Ashley Feinberg on x

  i cannot wait to find out that this limit is going to include the 20 ads you see for every actual post https://twitter.com/...

• @athertonkd Kelsey D. Atherton on x

  He couldn't be worse at this if he was a deep sea submersible captain steering with a logitech controller [image]

• @suhail @suhail on x

  @elonmusk Why not rate limit it based on good behavior/tenure/etc? For instance, an account in good standing would get 95th percentile usage limits whereas a brand-new account would get a lot less? Most users would not need to know the rate limits.

• @suhail @suhail on x

  @elonmusk It seems sad to penalize the many due to the few. Surely Twitter's data science team has already determined what a “good user” looks like after all these years.

• @zoink Dylan Field on x

  Please sir may I have some more https://twitter.com/...

• @ryanbeckwith Ryan Teague Beckwith on x

  @katienotopoulos People also abandoned Digg overnight for Reddit

• @willguyatt Will Guyatt on x

  I wonder if a large cloud supplier has finally called Elon Musk's bluff and cut off a significant amount of capacity over the weekend? 🤔

• @alshipley Al Shipley on x

  “rate limited exceeded” will be the last thing people on elon's space colonies see when they run out of oxygen

• @taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x

  This is so funny he really wants to force users off the platform https://twitter.com/...

• @brianstelter Brian Stelter on x

  So... no more doomscrolling?

• @obsoletedogma Matt O'Brien on x

  Preventing people from using your app doesn't seem like a good way to get them to use your app.

• @dimensionmedia David Bisset on x

  “Rate limit exeeded” messages aren't a joke I seems. Makes sense login being required was made a thing otherwise you couldn't put these “viewing” restrictions in place. “Temporaily” advertisers are just going to love this. https://twitter.com/...

• @johnolilly John Lilly on x

  Idly wondering what % of my daily tweet ration will be people tweeting about the Tweet ration.

• @panzer @panzer on x

  Genius at work

• @matthfield Matt Field on x

  After much handwringing over social media addiction - Musk has the solution Simply ban your own users from looking at your hell app

• @matthfield Matt Field on x

  Scrolling aggressively to try and hit 600 Tweets

• @lamhfada @lamhfada on x

  Amazing how a once mostly reliable social media site is just going down the tubes because some incompetent apartheid rich guy wanted his ego stoked by fascists. [image]

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  How to lose a product in 10 months https://twitter.com/... [image]

• @ghoulhag @ghoulhag on x

  not now babe i'm rate limit exceeded

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  Think of all the things that become possible when you pay your server bills

• @tomcoates Tom Coates on x

  OMIGOD, this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. https://www.bbc.com/...

• @digiphile Alex Howard on x

  A reg wall + limiting the number of posts users can consume without warning is a gobsmacking act. 1st, it was pay for your tweets to get seen. Now, it's pay to read access tweets — & even then, still be rate limited. (6000/day isn't much.) TBD who does so, & how many leave. [imag…

• @pt Parker on x

  LOL. They did this on purpose?!?!!?! https://twitter.com/...

• @tsuvik Vikas SN on x

  Can't help but wonder if this is yet another ploy from Twitter to drive up Twitter Blue subscriptions 🤔 https://twitter.com/...

• @katebevan Kate Bevan on x

  He's not paid some cloud provider's bill again, hasn't he?

• @williamturton William Turton on x

  by posts do you mean...tweets https://twitter.com/...

• @willguyatt Will Guyatt on x

  The world's richest man is operating Twitter like he's trading from a single market stall. Crazy.

• @willguyatt Will Guyatt on x

  Musk is also literally killing twitter for those literally pay for this rubbish.

• @loganbartlett Logan Bartlett on x

  Just claim your account was hacked and this weirdly specific message was posted.

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  This is like the pandemic when they let people only buy two things of toilet paper but for tweets.

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  And think about the implications for advertisers, who will likely have a lot of questions. Fewer tweets being seen by users = fewer eyeballs seeing ads. This will have knock on effects beyond stopping whatever scraping Musk objects to.

• @krxsctr @krxsctr on x

  Having to read tweets on what's going on on Twitter on Techmeme because Twitter won't let me read anything Not sure this a great way to run a product [image]

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  Sorry that this tweet is going against your daily quota. https://twitter.com/...

• @internethippo @internethippo on x

  Just openly begging for money would be less embarrassing than this https://twitter.com/...

• @mattbinder Matt Binder on x

  ❌ stopping the bots ❌ stopping the web scrapers ✅ stopping real users from accessing Twitter [image]

• @dieworkwear Derek Guy on x

  Hey everyone! “Menswear guy” here. Elon has liked my posts so much, he hired me to be Twitter's new engineer! Excited to start my first day!!

• @martinsfp @martinsfp on x

  Even if you thought limiting the reading of tweets was a good idea, the way it's implemented, as an error message because they haven't built anything slicker is just so bad UX. Spitting in users' faces.

• @daveleebbg Dave Lee on x

  Twitter also introducing a new sign up process [image]

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  This is gonna make a lot of people mad, especially those who bought into his vision to pay $8 a month and who passed whatever checks he put in place to ensure they were “verified” users. [image]

• @mikeisaac @mikeisaac on x

  just to be clear the above screenshot isn't fake, i just couldn't get to the original tweet until someone texted it to me because I am rate limited at viewing posts Here's original tweet https://twitter.com/...

• @kevinjrawlinson Kevin Rawlinson on x

  Well, that's my daily 10-minute ration of Twitter all used up 🤷‍♂️ [image]

• @neroxiia @neroxiia on x

  Twitter has really sucked since Elon Musk took over the app.. https://twitter.com/...

• @bradeauxnba @bradeauxnba on x

  Limiting the amount of posts someone can read per day is absolutely absurd. Especially in the middle of NBA free agency.. The timing couldn't be any worse. https://twitter.com/...

• @anisha12 @anisha12 on x

  Tips on how to reduce engagement and traffic and ruin success, faster A🧵 https://twitter.com/...

• @norootcause @norootcause on x

  Who could have foreseen that disinvesting in expertise and spare capacity would eventually lead to problems?

• @norootcause @norootcause on x

  Beginning to suspect that Elon Musk is not a systems thinker.

• @daveleebbg Dave Lee on x

  Freedom of speech but not freedom of being able to look at a lot of things per day

• @thetomzone Tom Mckay on x

  gotta hand it to Elon here. we were all joking about how he was gonna implement a paywall on posting but he came up with the even better idea of a paywall on seeing the posts https://twitter.com/...

• @markgurman Mark Gurman on x

  No viewing tweets without logging in + extreme limiting without a paid account. The era of Twitter as a paid only service is possibly approaching. https://twitter.com/...

• @thecubsfan @thecubsfan on x

  ok cool so he's out of money and they're ending the usefulness of the service. I had bits I wanted to do today. https://twitter.com/...

• @joshtpm Josh Marshall on x

  sounds like Twitter is doing great if it has to block people who are not signed in and throttle existing accounts just to keep up with the totally ordinary usage that's been going on for years. Place is falling apart and can't happen soon enough frankly. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattlombardonfl Matt Lombardo on x

  Easily the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen, in a long line of ridiculousness since Musk took over. They'll stop at nothing trying to get people to pay. Twitter has become unusable as a platform. I said it. 🗑️ https://twitter.com/...

• @jpsartre_noexit @jpsartre_noexit on x

  I'm a human Getting rate limit exceed. I definitely haven't hit 300 today @TwitterSupport @elonmusk https://twitter.com/... [image]

• @oalexanderdk Oliver Alexander on x

  Unless you pay for Twitter you can now only READ 600 posts per day. Even if you pay for Twitter Blue, you can only READ 6000. Well done @elonmusk you killed Twitter. Can't wait to see morons defend this. https://twitter.com/...

• @esotericcd @esotericcd on x

  This is insane. I look back through tweets, search archives, research things constantly. 600 posts? I hit that use scrolling down through an “advanced search” in five minutes. You have ruined Twitter. It's because you're losing money and don't have the infrastructure, isn't it. h…

• @shuglisam Rubab Hayat on x

  So even when you pay you are still limited 😀 https://twitter.com/...

• @camolnft @camolnft on x

  I work in social media. I spend 8hr+ a day on Twitter for work. Part of this is directing funds to twitter for various marketing campaigns. This ONLY hurts the users that bring in revenue to twitter. The folks that rely on it for work. It's a sad day on the bird app. https://twit…

• @sjftbi @sjftbi on x

  It's actually impressive to take control of the most basic social media app to exist and to completely ruin in what... less than a year? https://twitter.com/...

• @igb Ian Brown on x

  Tell me you turned off too many servers without telling me you turned off too many servers. https://twitter.com/...

• @lanceulanoff Lance Ulanoff on x

  This is just so dumb. A us solution to solve a you problem. I've never heard of a media consumption platform purposely limiting how much of it you can consume, and to once again punish unverified because they didn't want to pay is doubly insulting https://twitter.com/...

• @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x

  So it seems bluechecks can tweet and see feeds just fine. But everyone else is limited?

• @mikeelgan Mike Elgan on x

  Another idiotic change. Does this also apply to auto-updating streams on Tweetdeck? https://twitter.com/...

• @daveleebbg Dave Lee on x

  Unverified accounts can only *read* 600 posts a day. Absolutely wild and self destructive move from Musk. https://twitter.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  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

• @bsky.app @bsky.app on bluesky

  Our systems are currently experiencing some degraded performance as a result of record-high traffic.  You may notice some slowness in-app as a result.  Our team is working to resolve this issue.  —  You can view our system performance status here: https://status.bsky.app/

• @bsky.app @bsky.app on bluesky

  We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues.  We'll keep you updated when invite codes will resume functionality.  —  We're excited to welcome more users to our beta soon!

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  truly a shame that Bluesky isn't ready to take over from Twitter [image]

• @ericprhodes Eric on x

  is this a tipping point? feels like bsky shoud've been better prepared for this. https://twitter.com/...

• @jwsherrod John William Sherrod on x

  This is amusing in light of people encouraging people to follow them on Bluesky because of today's “rate limit” drama on Twitter. https://twitter.com/...

• r/tech r on reddit

  Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups because so many people are joining from Twitter

• r/technology r on reddit

  Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups because so many people are joining from Twitter

• @fudge.org Jay Cuthrell on bluesky

  Maybe you used short URL services that don't exist now.  —  Maybe you used an image hosting service that went offline.  —  Maybe you used Google [ insert name ] that didn't become a successful commercial service.  —  You probably saved links from these services.  —  Link rot is r…

• @nevillehobson.xyz Neville Hobson on bluesky

  Whether you like being on Twitter or not, these are confidence-draining events.  Be sure you have an effective escape plan in place, just in case.  [embedded post]

• @pantster.bsky.social @pantster.bsky.social on bluesky

  Both people still working at Twitter are probably really upset about the rate limit issue

• @kriswernowsky.com Kris Wernowsky on bluesky

  Elon Musk screaming “RATE LIMIT EXCEEDED, RATE LIMIT EXCEEDED!"over and over at a team of absolutely exhausted engineers who have been bathing in the office bathroom sinks for weeks.

• @bschillace.bsky.social Brandy Schillace on bluesky

  So my ‘rate limit exceeded’ on Twitter.  How?  I scarcely go there.  Is this just more pay musk or else BS? @pfrazee.com I think you're gonna have a lot more requests to come on here.  How's the opening up going?  I hope we all get over here before the election stuff gets really …

• @thiskindabrad.bsky.social Brad on bluesky

  I figure if the rate limit is within exceeding distance it better try some diplomacy before it retrieves tweets.

• @therssfeed.bsky.social Rob on bluesky

  Last time Twitter had a major fuckup, @bsky.app sent out a round of invite codes to everyone.  I wonder if they'll do the same with today's “rate limit exceeded” mess.

• @amyewest@mastodon.social @amyewest@mastodon.social on mastodon

  I just got a “Rate limit exceeded” message.  I have never, ever gotten a message like that before.  The last thing I did was RT an article yesterday and hit refresh this morning to see what was what over there.

• @davidaxelrod David Axelrod on x

  Good news for those who are hooked on Twitter! Forced withdrawal!!! https://www.nbcnews.com/...

• @junlper @junlper on x

  it's so cool every week twitter completely breaks in new and exciting ways

• @hdevalence @hdevalence on x

  imagine seeing one of europe's largest countries have an escalating political crisis, owning the communication medium that all the live players will use to make sense of it, and turning it off

• @steinkobbe @steinkobbe on x

  I remember when Elon fired most of the Twitter staff there was so much gloom about Twitter's future from the haters, but now half a year later Elon has gotten rid of all the bots, and Twitter runs more smoothly than ever. Maybe stupid to doubt the richest genius to ever live?

• @digiphile Alex Howard on x

  @theinformation ... After Musk put tweets behind a registration wall, claiming scraping is degrading UX — despite a decade+ of it not being a stated issue! — there's a global outage. People cannot retrieve tweets & get “rate limit exceeded.” https://indianexpress.com/... No statu…

• @muellershewrote @muellershewrote on x

  Rate Limit Exceeded = Elon testing some new Nazi plug-in while the six people left at Twitter who aren't allowed to take breaks have to piss into empty Brawndo bottles as they desperately try to hold the site together with bridge trolls & paperclips.

• @shempverse @shempverse on x

  Ah, yes, rate limit exceeded on the Rate Limit Exceeded trending tab. [image]

• @badposts12 @badposts12 on x

  Twitter removed “Rate Limit Exceeded” from the trending list lmao [image]

• @nicktyde Nick on x

  Sitting here seeing everyone's rate limit be exceeded; I couldn't help but wonder when would my rate limit be exceeded [image]

• @fyridk @fyridk on x

  THERES A RATE LIMIT FOR VIEWING TWEETS NOW? [image]

• @teroterotero Tero Kuittinen on x

  Oh no... I just tweeted at a leading Finnish journalist called Salla and that triggered “Rate Limit Exceeded” on my browser Twitter as well. So switching to browser version only helps for a while. Conserve your tweets people!!

• @claireberlinski Claire Berlinski on x

  Twitter outage leads to chaos, users face ‘cannot retrieve tweets’ error https://indianexpress.com/... via @IndianExpress “Twitter has not yet acknowledged the outage or provided any explanation for the cause of the problem.” @elonmusk @lindayacc?

• @jetscott @jetscott on x

  Rate limit? Fuck this site

• @sahilriz Sahil Rizwan on x

  Haven't seen a new tweet in 20 minutes. Garbage app is in its notice period era [image]

• @nycsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw on x

  lol fuck your rate limit, Elon.

• @pt Parker on x

  Am I supposed to pay to see people's profiles these days, or do blue checks also only get five minutes on the app now? [image]

• @binarybits Timothy B. Lee on x

  Elon working hard to make Twitter worse. [image]

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @TitterDaily Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on x

  How do I stop scraping? Do you have a solution? Oh, you do? Well how about a bunch of bullshit I made up? How about that smart guy? [image]

• @aqueelmiq Aqueel on x

  @t3dotgg this is a temporary restriction, we will re-enable logged out twitter access in the near future

• @stinque @stinque on x

  “Elon claims” should open every news story. https://twitter.com/...

• @mgsiegler M.G. Siegler on x

  Ah yes, a “special operation”. https://twitter.com/...

• @paulg Paul Graham on x

  Surely someone who can figure out how to build spaceships can figure out how to distinguish scrapers from legit users. The patterns must be so different.

• @micahnightwolf @micahnightwolf on x

  Welcome to Twitter, where we are busy fixing all the shit we broke yesterday. Tomorrow, we will fix the shit that we broke today, and we will break more shit in the process. TL:DR lower the goddamn API price and let people use it again. https://twitter.com/...

• @scalzi John Scalzi on x

  Ah, the next stage of Twitter collapse, I see https://mashable.com/...

• @pt Parker on x

  The reason I'm 100% convinced Twitter is on its way to bankruptcy is nobody involved seems to understand Twitter will succeed by leaning into its differences rather than copying feature from more successful social products. Nobody needs Facebook (Elon's Version). https://twitter.…

• @pt Parker on x

  TFW you can launch a rocket into space and land it back on earth but can't figure out how to cache web pages. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattbinder Matt Binder on x

  and here is an update: Elon Musk now says it's a “temporary emergency measure” to stop web scrapers from pulling Twitter's data it's unclear when unregistered visitors will be able to view Twitter content again https://mashable.com/...

• @cooperlund Cooper Lund on x

  AI is melting all these guys brains because now they're convinced that all their user generated content is a goldmine but that have zero idea how to actually make money off it. Instead of solving that problem they're going apeshit trying to keep people from getting it. https://tw…

• ResearchBuzz ResearchBuzz on mastodon

  Two New Gizmos to Explore Mastodon: Hashtag Search and Trending Content

• @alpaye.bsky.social Alpay on bluesky

  Well it is not very useful for logged in users either.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @TimSweeneyEpic Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience. What should we do to stop that? I'm open to ideas.

• @timsweeneyepic Tim Sweeney on x

  The internet feels increasingly broken. News sites are paywalled or account walled, Reddit is nag walled, Google search spams ads and SEO to the point of uselessness, and now Twitter is account walled. Web browsing feels horrible now.

• @titterdaily @titterdaily on x

  NEWS: Twitter's web version no longer allows users to browse without logging in. All urls redirect to the signup page. This is believed to be a measure to make it harder for scrapers to take Twitter's data, like ChatGPT's web browsing plugin has been doing. [image]

• @jsrailton John Scott-Railton on x

  NEW: you can no longer view Twitter profiles via web without login. Friction increases for disinformation research. [image]

• @fck_ur_lies @fck_ur_lies on x

  Rate Limit exceeded being the new error means that he's going to attempt to throttle people who don't pay him $8.00 a month to tweet. This is where it's heading. PAY UP or get DROWNED OUT. 2/2 https://techcrunch.com/...

• @vicorib Viktor on x

  This is so so so dumb. Anyone who's ever embedded a tweet on a blog, news site, research journals where a reader ain't logged on twitter will automatically show a blank page now. Sometimes I ask if Elon thinks before doing anything cos it looks like he doesn't 🧐 https://twitter.c…

• @legacykillahd Michael on x

  Missed this but yet another NOT GREAT change. No idea how less & less traffic is going to keep this site alive. This place can't be a walled garden if it wants to thrive... Twitter's worth has to be a fraction of what it once was. Severely mismanaged. https://twitter.com/...

• @naniyule Nani Yule on x

  Explains todays outage atleast in some part. Walled gardens around social platforms. https://twitter.com/...

• @jackal27 Jordan Starkweather on x

  If this is intentional, it's the worst decision yet. The only reason this site is so relevant is because the media and content made here can be easily spread (or even embedded) to the rest of the internet. https://twitter.com/...

• @rsms Rasmus Andersson on x

  The experience of web browsing has been in a steady decline over the past 10 years. In addition to most websites being 90% ads and cookie banners, many now only work in the latest version of Chrome, “the new MSIE”, or latest Safari (like Figma, which I can't access.) https://twit…

• @jangles Neville Hobson on x

  This may well be temporary as Musk says, but that requires a leap of faith and trust. Meanwhile, ensure you have an effective escape plan, just in case https://twitter.com/...

• @jaytholen Jay Tholen on x

  people no longer seeing their peers posting tweets on discord/forums/whatever is gonna make this site seem way less relevant v quickly. one of the few ways that new users find the place. https://twitter.com/...

• @lizardengland Liz England on x

  On the plus side maybe tabloidy gamer sites will stop linking to developer tweets like they are news. https://twitter.com/...

• @stephen_kent89 Stephen Kent on x

  when a breach eventually occurs, involving very sensitive information which the companies never wanted to collect....guess who will swoop in to take more control? The same govt that forced them to hold such information. better solution is to be a hands-on parent/guardian.

• @speitsch Sebastian Peitsch on x

  Noticed this yesterday This means you can't get around a block via the website without logging into a sock poppet account https://twitter.com/...

• @yuris Yuri Sagalov on x

  From a global town square to a gated community 😕 https://twitter.com/...

• @zoeschiffer Zoë Schiffer on x

  Twitter is blocking logged out users from browsing tweets in an effort to stop data scrapers. It's happening on web & about to expand to mobile. Interesting bc Musk's first project after taking over was redirecting the Twitter homepage to Explore rather than the sign up screen. h…

• @triketora Tracy Chou on x

  if only there were an api so people wouldn't have to scrape, if only https://twitter.com/...

• @taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x

  At every turn Musk does basically the exact opposite of the things that made TikTok a success. Fascinating to watch [image]

• @ben8128 Ben Eidelson on x

  Next we will have Twitter Circles to further limit sharing. https://twitter.com/...

• @wbm312 Whitney Merrill on x

  Well this might be the thing that organically kills my twitter use. If I can't share tweets with folks, makes it a lot harder to engage in the same way. They'll see a small bump in signups - but the long term damage will come to bite them. https://twitter.com/...

• @mgsiegler M.G. Siegler on x

  Just amazing. Every link blog that links to tweets now just link to a dumb interstitial (unless you happen to be logged in to Twitter on that particular browser — which, if you're using, say, an RSS reader, you're not. Or coming from elsewhere, you're not). Stupid. Stupid. Stupid…

• @peter @peter on x

  Congratulations, @Twitter. You've played yourself. Every embedded tweet on a blog, news site or other experience where a reader isn't explicitly logged into Twitter shows a blank page now. So incredibly dumb. https://twitter.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @TimSweeneyEpic Lmaooo

• @timsweeneyepic Tim Sweeney on x

  @elonmusk Thwart scraping patterns with infosec engineering, forbid bad forms of scraping in terms of service, add a volume based liquidated damages clause, prominently litigate against large scale commercial abuse.

• @nash076 @nash076 on x

  Yay less eyeballs on ads this is the best idea https://www.theverge.com/...

• @dalmaer Dion Almaer on x

  Time To Next Bozo Move keeps getting shorter! https://twitter.com/...

• @adamscochran Adam Cochran on x

  Scrapers going to scrape. But nuking embeds will just send traffic and vitality lower at a much bigger impact than scraping. https://twitter.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @TimSweeneyEpic 1. Scraping is already disallowed by T&C. 2. The scraping orgs dgaf & mask their IPs through proxy servers or through orgs that appear legit. For example, a recent massive scraping operation originating from Oracle IP addresses was just using their servers as a la…

• @shaig Shai Goldman on x

  growth hacking is back! 😤 https://twitter.com/...

• @jw @jw on x

  this is some lame boomer shit [image]

• @keithdsouza Keith on x

  The “supposedly” town square of the world now requires you to show a gate pass to access “free speech” as defined by the MUSK constitution https://twitter.com/...

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  One of the most common things I do is share tweets over Messages/WhatsApp/Signal with friends who are also on twitter. Now that sharing is broken. Reverting to screen shots is bad for everyone—bad for accessibility and readability.

• @catacalypto Cat Manning on x

  this website is so dead lol https://twitter.com/...

• @gigawattconduit Justin Carter on x

  Ah yes, the “opening instagram/tumblr from a browser link instead of redirecting you to the app” method https://twitter.com/...

• @adribbleofink Aidan Moher on x

  I assume this also means embedded tweets no longer work? https://twitter.com/...

• @djangowexler Django Wexler on x

  I just ... what? This is beyond shooting yourself in the foot, it's blowing your kneecap off with a shotgun. Eloin has lost his mind https://twitter.com/...

• @girlmeetsgeek Kate-Madonna Hindes on x

  Well, that's the final nail. Twitter is meaningless to SEO now. Your tweets remain in the Twitter-verse and have NO viewability outside the platform. I don't understand shooting your own platform to death. https://techcrunch.com/...

• @dietrich @dietrich on x

  Twitter just went dark to the web. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @marshacollier Marsha Collier on x

  Twitter has started blocking unregistered users from viewing tweets If you want to browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web, then you currently need to be signed in to a Twitter account. ⚠️ You MUST login to your account #tech https://www.theverge.com/...

• @pati_gallardo Patricia Aas on x

  Lol. One of the things I don't like about Bluesky is that it's a walled garden. But hey now twitter is too. This place is on a race to the bottom. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @jotamide Jota on x

  With this change, they killed 35 thousand references at the English Wikipedia overnight. https://twitter.com/... [image]

• @iansherr Ian Sherr on x

  The latest salvo in the AI content scrapping wars? https://twitter.com/...

• @ziggyofak Ziggy on x

  Has anything on here gotten better since the purchase? https://twitter.com/...

• @mgsiegler M.G. Siegler on x

  Slack embeds: broken. iMessage embeds: broken. Tweets now insanely less viral and thus, valued. So fucking stupid.

• @arjunram Arjun Ram on x

  @mgsiegler No it's even worse. See this - stupendously moronic 🤦🏻‍♂️ [video]

• @hamburger Ellis on x

  Twitter: pivots to video for growth Twitter: sorry you can't share videos with new users (lmao) https://twitter.com/...

• @paullomax Paul Lomax on x

  Good way to drive up user numbers as everyone will need an alt. https://twitter.com/...

• @dsquareddigest Dan Davies on x

  tfw you literally don't understand the key reporting concept of a monetizable daily average user https://twitter.com/...

• @jgarzik Ser Jeff Garzik on x

  This will break some browsing flows, and net-net reduce readership of Twitter. https://twitter.com/...

• @harrymccracken Harry McCracken on x

  Twitter has veered back and forth over the years on the question of whether being able to use it without logging in is a GREAT idea or the WORST IDEA EVER. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @jagrbombed @jagrbombed on x

  Cool so I should just screenshot tweets and not get him the web traffic https://twitter.com/...

• @eriz35 Dr Buck on x

  it will never not be hilarious that musk paid 44 billion for this website, without knowing the first thing about how and why people use it https://twitter.com/...

• @aclippinger Alex Clippinger on x

  Tragic change because crapping on conservatives in tweet replies, blocking them, and then circling back an hour later to see them coping about the block on main is a top tier user experience https://twitter.com/...

• @zenofdesign Damion Schubert on x

  The fact that @elonmusk continues to try to turn Twitter into a walled garden instead of letting it be the crossroads of the internet just shows how fundamentally he doesn't understand what he bought. Never has a man more deservingly lost tens of billions of dollars. https://twit…

• @loganalogy Logan Turner on x

  Boogity-woogity, https://twitter.com/ Login seems to be needed to read any tweet. Elon once griped of its unsuitability. Is Yaccarino a step from defeat? https://www.techmeme.com/...

• @youngbitcoin @youngbitcoin on x

  This is why I don't embed youtube or twitter (or insta or whatever) on any sites. You have no control over what those links will become. We learned this from image hosting sites a decade ago! https://twitter.com/...

• @dimensionmedia David Bisset on x

  As of now embedded tweets in blogs (such as I have in my #WordPress posts) still show up, but require a login if you click on them and go to the site. But I think it worked this is how it worked in the past. Although not confident embeds will be untouched indefinitely. https://tw…

• @kayworxx @kayworxx on x

  Sites that do this are SO insufferable, so of course Musk thinks it's a great idea https://twitter.com/...

• @9six7 Brian Brown on x

  If Elon was actively trying to wreck this website, what would he be doing differently? https://twitter.com/...

• @mediaevan Evan DeSimone on x

  If I owned this website, and I had made it this bad, I too would try to make sure no one could see it. https://twitter.com/...

• @hulkamatt @hulkamatt on x

  Genius makes tweets less visible https://twitter.com/...

• @chknpuppetmk5 @chknpuppetmk5 on x

  “I've heard there's some great content on Twitter dot com if better sign up to see what it is” https://twitter.com/...

• @bradymweiler Brady Weiler on x

  The brain genius who's running this app into the ground strikes again! https://twitter.com/...

• @domdifurio @domdifurio on x

  This site has such an insignificant user base relative to other platforms that you *really* don't have much reach to gain from posting on this site with a change like this. https://twitter.com/...

• @jeffveillette Jeff Veillette on x

  With each day I'm more certain that killing the site out of spite was the point https://twitter.com/...

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on x

  does elon not realise he needs tweets to be more visible not less https://twitter.com/...

• @bobdaduck @bobdaduck on x

  nobody at twitter has the slightest idea how people use their website https://twitter.com/...

• @gosearchmatters @gosearchmatters on x

  This makes tweets less searchable and therefore available in Google Search. This is a loss for everyone creating valuable content exclusively for Twitter. https://twitter.com/...

• @pt Parker on x

  I wonder how many people have the issue where they use Private Browsing on Safari and can't open links in Twitter from other apps anymore at all. Thanks a lot, bird people. https://twitter.com/...

• @rustybrick Barry Schwartz on x

  What - no @twitter - I wonder how this will impact Google ranking Tweets - cc @johnmu https://twitter.com/...

• @midwesthedgie @midwesthedgie on x

  one other side effect of this is if an account that has blocked you keeps dropping really hateful shit in your replies, you won't ever know they are doing it. first Elon blocks APIs like BlockParty, now this. it's as if he wants to make this site as hate-filled as possible https:…

• @kevinrothrock Kevin Rothrock on x

  Wow, it seems you can no longer view hyperlinks to specific tweets without logging into a Twitter account. This makes sharing tweets with people who aren't members or aren't logged in a huge nuisance. [image]

• @tree_of_alpha @tree_of_alpha on x

  Twitter pushed an update overnight that makes viewing tweets and profiles impossible without being logged in. Elon is likely soon adopting the model of other social networks to force people to subscribe for the content. https://twitter.com/...

• @moneroprophet @moneroprophet on x

  @TitterDaily I'll copy what I said in another tweet here. This is indeed horrible for privacy. You can no longer browse Twitter incognito. [image]

• @psychic_brian33 @psychic_brian33 on x

  This means people wil no longer be able to listen to spaces on the outside,in another browser, without signing into Twitter. https://twitter.com/...

• @austen Austen Allred on x

  It's funny because this is the way Twitter worked for a very long time. Then Elon reversed that, to both praise and criticism. Now we go back. I love watching stuff like this happening at companies over time. Competing metrics forces different optimization. https://twitter.com/..…

• @krausefx Felix Krause on x

  It's like Reddit and Twitters are racing who's losing relevance faster https://twitter.com/...

• r/popculturechat r on reddit

  Twitter has started blocking unregistered users

• r/EnoughMuskSpam r on reddit

  Twitter seeing ‘record user engagement’?  The data tells a different story

• @mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick on bluesky

  Just logged in to Twitter to check something... and saw three tweets that were spam.  Can I demand a refund on my tweet quota?

• @n4i.bsky.social @n4i.bsky.social on bluesky

  Didn't Elon want people to use Twitter for banking?  Could you imagine your money being tied up in this shit lmao

• @kalihays.bsky.social Kali Hays on bluesky

  “web developer Sheldon Chang noticed another source of unusual traffic: a bug in Twitter's web app constantly sending requests to Twitter in an infinite loop”🥹  —  https://waxy.org/...

• @Gargron@mastodon.social Eugen Rochko on mastodon

  Looks like Mastodon's active user base has increased by 110K over the last day.  Not bad.

• @Green_Footballs@mastodon.social Charles Johnson on mastodon

  Looks like Elon Musk executed TweetDeck's API tokens.  It's 404s all the way down.  —  [image]

• @karlbode Karl Bode on x

  truly is the golden era for dumb people who think they're smart if you're a dumb person who thinks they're smart (especially if you have the kind of wealth that attracts mewling sycophants), strike now, because the world is your oyster [image]

• @jayrosen_nyu Jay Rosen on x

  I'd like to hear from the CEO, Day Two. https://twitter.com/...

• @mekkaokerekebye @mekkaokerekebye on x

  There are many retry logic strategies. “Exponential backoff” is a popular one. My favorite is: “429? You think you can 429 me?! I am not the one to play with! I was being a gentleman about it before with 1 request, but now you gon' take 20 a second! I ain't trying to hear 429!” h…

• @molly0xfff Molly White on x

  the successful calls are because the home timeline and DMs still seem to work. everything else is just the loading spinner [image]

• @stwboerse Stefan Waldhauser on x

  LOL. It's really time to look beyond Twitter. And it's a huge chance for #Zuck to come out with a Twitter clone that works. Hopefully well integrated in Instagram though. https://twitter.com/...

• @stokel @stokel on x

  This is incredible: Twitter might actually not have a scraping problem but Elon's attempts to force people to sign up to view tweets is causing the site to DDoS itself, analysis of Twitter's backend shows https://waxy.org/...

• r/DeFranco r on reddit

  Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: “It's amateur hour” - Waxy.org

• Insider Insider on mastodon

  Twitter's new rate limits are sending people running to Mastodon. Here's everything you need to know about the Twitter alternative.

• UPROXX UPROXX on x

  Jack Dorsey Broke His Silence About Twitter Melting Down Under Elon Musk's Watch, Saying Running The Service Is ‘Hard’

• @caseynewton.bsky.social Casey Newton on bluesky

  Whenever Twitter rate-limits you the CEO should pop up in the app and say “I'm Linda Yaccarino and we'll be right back-a-rino” and do finger guns

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  Yesterday was a good barometer for the standing of Twitter's new CEO. The site under went into crisis, ostensibly caused by its owner, and she has yet to say anything publicly.

• @0xngmi @0xngmi on x

  llamao [image]

• @huntingthedead @huntingthedead on x

  I've never once read 100 tweets in one day, I'm beyond unaffected by this 🤷‍♂️ https://twitter.com/...

• @benjysarlin Benjy Sarlin on x

  Weird we aren't getting updates from the Twitter CEO who is the person in charge of company as everyone knows

• @goldman Jason Goldman on x

  Yes, the service which has both crippled itself to prevent its users' content from being seen and also introduced arbitrary speech rules like “cis is a slur” is definitely thinking about building the decentralized future imagined here [image]

• @notabigjerk Lauren on x

  its absolutely insane zuck might win in the end. he flushed billions down the toilet on web3 but no one else is realistically positioned to step in with a decent clone for the site bought by the only guy weirder than him. just goes to show, staying in the game is all that matters

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  Just was rate limited for a few hours. In that time I got to inbox zero, wrote 6 blog posts, went on a bike ride, pivoted a company, read 2 books, and learned Japanese. Rate limits will save humanity.

• @davenewworld_2 @davenewworld_2 on x

  A story in 3 acts [image]

• @alex_valaitis Alex Valaitis on x

  The armchair quarterbacking from @jack is so tiresome. Under his control: -Twitter engaged in massive censorship -Did not integrate with any open protocols -Little-to-no product innovation Now: -Constantly promotes competitor apps -Pumps his bags (both he + Square own a ton... ht…

• @auschwitzmuseum @auschwitzmuseum on x

  .@twitter @elonmusk Support memory by excluding tweets of @AuschwitzMuseum from the limits. Most of our tweets commemorate individual victims of the Auschwitz camp on their birthdays. We remind their names, faces and their fate. They deserve to be seen and remembered by all. http…

• @molly0xfff Molly White on x

  twitter's self-DDoS is worse with tweetdeck 💀 [video]

• @tim_stevens Tim Stevens on x

  I was wondering how TweetDeck would work given all the... drama over the weekend. The answer is that it really doesn't. I can't view any of my curated lists of sources, which is 90% of what I use Twitter for. Unsurprising, but really disappointing.

• @alexpalcuie @alexpalcuie on x

  tweetdeck broken for 24 hours is how you wane somebody from an addiction though I'm still reeling here, terrible withdrawal symptoms, etc. https://twitter.com/...

• @mdubakov @mdubakov on x

  Tweetdeck... I don't know, folks. I liked Elon, but it is getting more and more weird. [image]

• @irisheagle Tim Ballisty on x

  Yes, all columns report the “exceeded limit”. https://twitter.com/...

• @yevp @yevp on x

  Tweetdeck is what social media managers and professionals use to maintain brands. This is a problem. @elonmusk @lindayacc this deserves some attention. https://twitter.com/...

• @pip_net Philipp Kloeckner on x

  @elonmusk A paying user: This is what Tweetdeck looks like now. You remain a genius product innovator. [image]

• @mattnavarra Matt Navarra on x

  Tricky week for social media managers... TweetDeck suffers as Musk enforces read limits on Twitter https://techcrunch.com/... [image]

• @astroehlein Andrew Stroehlein on x

  Because he wasn't killing the platform fast enough already... https://techcrunch.com/...

• @jlbarrow @jlbarrow on x

  It's almost as if he doesn't know how Twitter works. https://twitter.com/...

• @imillhiser Ian Millhiser on x

  So, is Tweetdeck just permanently broken now? Because I guess I'll be more productive if the owner of this website does not want me to ever use Twitter while I'm working.

• @ryosanbot @ryosanbot on x

  0703 tweetdeck [image]

• @bowblax Josh on x

  this tweet limit is bullshit. I have tweetdeck up in the background all day (shows a bunch of tweets in real-time on 1 screen) and half-way through the day is now cuts off cause of the new tweet limit [image]

• @anthonyquintano Anthony Quintano on x

  So tweetdeck is unusable now [image]

• @tripperhead Aaron Busch on x

  Ok, seems like Twitter is messing about with Tweetdeck. If you enable Tweetdeck Preview, then it works. If you opt out of the new Tweetdeck, then it's still borked. I followed this guide to re-opt-in. https://www.ghacks.net/... https://twitter.com/... [image]

• @ivanthek @ivanthek on x

  Looks like lists in TweetDeck have been disabled. Tracking lists is the main reason for using TweetDeck, so it looks like this is another stealth decommissioning of Twitter functionality. Feels like Elmo can't afford to keep the lights on. Waiting for leaks about dark offices.

• @tripperhead Aaron Busch on x

  I'm hoping it's temporary, but if Elon has killed off Tweetdeck permanently, then Twitter as a place for breaking news is also dead. I'd actually pay for a stupid blue tick if it granted Tweetdeck access. 🤡🤡🤡🤡 [image]

• @amosji Mingchao Ji on x

  #TweetDeck is fucked up. [image]

• @tori26_3 Tori on x

  Thanks Elon for effectively killing TweetDeck. Not like a bunch of us use that for work or anything. [image]

• @molly0xfff Molly White on x

  this is the page after it's been open for a few minutes it's just repeatedly retrying 404s lol [video]