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[weatheriscool]

This sucks ass as I run a hurricane archives and this means people that don't have twitter don't get to see some of the stuff I add to my storm archives. f*ck.

[Powers]

This sucks ass as I run a hurricane archives and this means people that don't have twitter don't get to see some of the stuff I add to my storm archives. f*ck.

https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances

[Powers]

https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances

Uh oh...

[wjfox]

[Powers]

https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/94377184

[Time_Traveller]

https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/94377184

In a way, that is what it is.

[weatheriscool]

[weatheriscool]

[Powers]

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wtf

[Time_Traveller]

Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse

Wed 5 Jul 2023 13.00 BST

If you use Twitter, the service that not so long ago was the best way to take in breaking news and find audiences for serious conversations, you may have found it substantially less useful in the past year. Over this past weekend you found it almost unusable. On Saturday, everything melted down. Thousands of users reported that they had major issues using the platform, including an inability to access any tweets or to post their own tweets – so, basically, everything for which one might want to use Twitter.

On Saturday, Musk announced that Twitter was limiting the ways all users could access tweets “to address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation”. In other words, Musk was blaming commercial services that might want to scrape tweets and incorporate them into machine-learning models. There is no reason to believe this is actually happening, but Musk’s longtime hostility to artificial intelligence must have led him to deploy such services as likely suspects to blame for Twitter’s fragility.

Then Musk announced that accounts that didn’t pay for the company’s Twitter Blue service (almost all of them) would be limited to viewing a total of 600 posts a day, while accounts that did pay up would be limited to 6,000. Newly created Twitter accounts would be limited to viewing 300 posts a day. Later on Saturday, after significant public ridicule and anger, Musk twice raised the limits, as if that would appease users. As of Sunday night the limits stood at 10,000 posts a day for Blue subscribers, 1,000 a day for free accounts and 500 for newly created free accounts.

Such chaotic decisions certainly cast further doubt on Musk’s competence. There is no way he ran any predictive analyses to come up with such policies and numbers. He’s just winging it – poorly.

Over the past year, since the former genius assumed complete control of Twitter, he has expressed hostility toward its most loyal and active classes of user, including journalists, political and social activists, and the very businesses Twitter depends on for advertising revenue. By driving away advertisers from an already shaky and poorly run firm, Musk has lurched toward a desperate but ultimately futile move: to coerce (not encourage) users to subscribe to Twitter Blue, a special tier of membership that costs $8 (£6) a month, or 38.29 reis in Brazil, the third-largest market for Twitter after the US and Japan. Those 38.29 reis are about half what most people in Brazil pay each month for internet access itself and is beyond a reasonable expense for the vast majority of people there.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... f-collapse