I love how the town square model gets completely thrown out whenever it's inconvenient.

Perhaps this is part of his commitment to freeze peach.

It means Elon is a genius about cars and rockets, but apparently hasn't heard of "Cache-Control: public"

It means Musk wants OpenAI to pay him.

Not sure anybody wants to be training AI models on the outputs of his Twitter Blue posse.

If someone donated an art piece to a museum does that mean that anyone should be allowed to steal from them?

How much does Twitter's financial situation play into this situation? Didn't it recently go through some restructuring because of that?

I think it means "someone is crawling our data, perhaps because we made our API cost money, and we don't like it".

Ironically, my initial reaction was “Oh crap. Public saftey orgs use this to broadcast alerts.”

My second reaction was “I wonder how hard it would be to take a list of twitter handles and scrape their feeds into an S3 bucket that’s fronted with a CDN.”

It went from $0/mo (as it had been for a long time) to $5000/mo overnight with no middle ground (for access to streaming data, no matter how small the volume).

Yep. BS artist says more BS.

It's a shame that he's not able to escape his pathological belief that his product approach is the right approach, regardless of the grotesque impact he's making on what was a good thing for all of us.

It's funny seeing comments like "was a good thing for all of us" after years of hearing "Twitter is damaging society".

I can't tell if it's different people talking now or if people really are that fickle. Probably a bit of both.

Both.

I hold both views.

The subtlety is in whether the User is beholden to Twitter Inc in a Just Along For The Ride sense, or is Creating a Burden for Innocent Others.

Former is most of us, latter is institutions incapable of acting insightfully considering the possible future (this one we now live in).

It's corporate speak of "we want to have our data public for all of the benefits and carry no costs"

It means web scraping.