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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by acdha on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:23PM (#33701869)
Want to bet that’s not unconnected to sacking the people who tried to block bots?
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by user_ on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:49PM (#33702059)
I'm sure it's connected, but not because of the bots.

Millions of political moderates are stopping by to see what happens when a large-scale public forum begins to tolerate freedom of speech.

Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by astrange on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:35AM (#33702762)
Interestingly, my reports on racist posts are being accepted much more often than they were before, so this is in fact not happening.
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by acdha on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @07:13AM (#33704919)
Exactly what kind of views do you think moderates were worried about not being tolerated? Going by the definition of the term it seems unlikely that anyone, much less millions, was previously deterred by policy.
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by user_ on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:33PM (#33709202)
> A man cannot get pregnant. A man has no womb or eggs

That got a Spanish politician (Francisco José Contreras) banned.

Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by acdha on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:13PM (#33709872)
He wasn’t banned (only suspended for a few hours) and that was directed at a single trans person. That last part is almost certainly the reason why he got that warning unlike the many people who have generically expressed similar beliefs.
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by NaturalPhallacy on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:50AM (#33702515)
Sure. Who do you have on the inside who can publicly verify that you're correct?
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by acdha on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:40AM (#33705623)
Their previous CEO said they saw on the order of 500k bot signup attempts daily, and the reports last week specifically mentioned layoffs affecting those teams and things like reporting. Put that together and I’d be careful about comparing numbers before and after this month since they’re almost certainly not measuring the same thing.
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by NaturalPhallacy on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @11:59AM (#33707924)
So nobody.
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by acdha on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:16PM (#33709924)
Not any more, no. You’ll note that I expressed this as a theory rather than a statement of fact.
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by NaturalPhallacy on Thursday November 24, 2022 @12:10PM (#33733651)
>Want to bet that’s not unconnected to sacking the people who tried to block bots?

No you didn't. You made a bet and got your bluff called.