Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by olalonde on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:35PM
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It doesn't feel like that to me. Elon reported that Twitter hit a new all time high of "user seconds" last week. Reddit usage doesn't seem to have gone down much. In my opinion, what you are really experiencing is wishful thinking.
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Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by faefox on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:42PM
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Elon says a lot of things, like last fall when he was crowing about how Twitter had the bot problem licked. Fast forward to today and bot spam is worse than ever before.
You can believe what you want. I choose to believe what I see with my eyes.
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by peytoncasper on Saturday July 01, 2023 @07:10PM
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I’m not taking a side of whether Elon is right or wrong.
However, you mentioned that today is an admission that the bot problem is worse. However that not true, the restrictions are specifically on viewing data (scrapers) rather than creating data (bots).
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by aquova on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:38PM
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It's going to be hard to continue hitting record highs if you're limiting how much of your content people are able to see.
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by olalonde on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:39PM
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That's probably why the limits are temporary.
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by user_named on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:51PM
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They're not temporary they're indefinite
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by lljk_kennedy on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:38PM
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How is user seconds defined?
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by c-cube on Saturday July 01, 2023 @09:21PM
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Users coming for seconds, because they've been rate limited and deprived of their dopamine hits.
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by olalonde on Sunday July 02, 2023 @12:27AM
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According to Elon, it's screen time as reported by Android & iOS.
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by x1ph0z on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:45PM
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| Elon reported that Twitter hit a new all time high of "user seconds" last week
I’m not inclined to take Elon’s words at face value, he has an incentive to pump any statistic that makes it seem Twitter is growing.
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by hbn on Saturday July 01, 2023 @04:19PM
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That's pretty much majority of data science at tech companies. Stakeholders want numbers that make things look good, not accurate or useful numbers.
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by ncallaway on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:53PM
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> Elon reported that Twitter hit a new all time high of "user seconds" last week.
A famously trustworthy source.
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by optionalsquid on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:56PM
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Doesn't the current situation imply that a lot of those users were bots/scrapers?
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by paulmd on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:39PM
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I don’t have an account so all my interactions with twitter are via discord bots. I don’t know where that falls into scraping vs bots but I ain’t an organic user from their perspective.
In theory the goal would be to push people like me to register and get an account to at least view, and force me into their platform/ecosystem so I can be measure and monetized.
Unfortunately, much like ape pics, printscreen key exists and people will simply pivot to posting png’s of twitter instead of direct linking