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725 sats \ 20 comments \ @shadowymartian 1 Jul 2023 tech

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275 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 1 Jul 2023

I noticed that today. I deleted my twitter account a while back. I was going to create a new one just to read a tweet, but I stopped myself. I can live without twitter.

84 sats \ 0 replies \ @BITC0IN 1 Jul 2023

such bullshit

153 sats \ 5 replies \ @petertodd 1 Jul 2023

Elon Musk claims this is a temporary measure due to extreme levels of traffic (probably) from companies training AI: 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.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 1 Jul 2023

What will cost Twitter more, some servers, or the decrease in network effect, resulting in fewer eyeballs.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @franzap 1 Jul 2023

Hard to believe.

Throttling would've worked without impacting UX.

Also there are armies of bots with Twitter accounts out there. Those can keep scraping.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 1 Jul 2023

Musk says that the scrapers are using huge swaths of IP address space to bypass rate limiting.

As for scraping with Twitter accounts, obviously accounts can get banned after reading too many tweets.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @faithandcredit 1 Jul 2023

Thx for sharing. It would help if they put a banner announcing this temporary measure when ppl visit without an account.

But when you think about it why don't the ai ppl just create an account to continue scraping the data? And what happens when the site "opens up" again? Won't the ai simply start scraping again?

3 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 1 Jul 2023

Creating an account means your traffic is associated with an account, and Twitter can easily ban that account.

Musk says that the scrapers are using huge swaths of IP address space to bypass rate limiting.

81 sats \ 0 replies \ @narc 1 Jul 2023

the bluebird is living in a smaller cage every day.

22 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 1 Jul 2023

I knew nitter would force Twitter's hand.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Chep 1 Jul 2023

Odell has been spot on from day one about these blue checks being a sus move

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 1 Jul 2023

I have not been using Twitter since March. I deleted the Twitter app from my phone back in March and have not been on it much. I still have my account on there, but I have not logged in since March. The only exposure I have to Twitter posts are the posts other people put here on SN.

I found it pretty easy to not use Twitter.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 1 Jul 2023

Twitter NGMI.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sancristrader 2 Jul 2023

Why not Captcha accounts after reading 600 tweets instead?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @franzap 1 Jul 2023

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @faithandcredit 1 Jul 2023

Rip

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual 1 Jul 2023

Lol we can always share screen shots or reddit posts of the twitter post instead

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nymatix 1 Jul 2023

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @2bithits 1 Jul 2023

I found a way. If you have the twitter app you can see tweets when you aren't signed in

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @03365d6a53 1 Jul 2023

install a closed source binary spyware application on a personal device?

hmm