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Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself by olalonde on Saturday July 01, 2023 @11:56PM (#36558075)
According to Elon, shutting down anonymous access was itself an emergency measure to deal with the DDoS[0]. Twitter did increase the quota significantly from earlier today[1].

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675260424109928449

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Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself by idiftl on Sunday July 02, 2023 @12:07AM (#36558121)
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Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself by olalonde on Sunday July 02, 2023 @12:14AM (#36558159)
[0] "Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!" (in reference to Twitter requiring users to be logged in)

[1] "Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k" (in reference to rate limits which were originally 6K 0.6K and 0.3K)

And another tweet that confirms disabling anonymous access was an emergency measure: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674942336583757825

> This will be unlocked shortly. Per my earlier post, drastic & immediate action was necessary due to EXTREME levels of data scraping.

> Almost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data.

> It is rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis just to facilitate some AI startup’s outrageous valuation.

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