They caused a request loop - https://lemmy.world/comment/703788
This is Musk’s “Reichstag Fire” moment for Twitter.
The rate limiting is not because of “extreme manipulation”, but because of piss-poor code that Twitter deployed as part of their change to only allow tweets to be viewed if logged in. Twitter is effectively DDoSing itself right now. But, it creates an opportunity for Musk to create a narrative.
These “temporary” limits will probably remain inevitably, as they provide another benefit to Twitter - they drive Blue subscriptions. Unfortunately, they also repel free users from using the platform entirely, and at a much higher ratio.
Twitter is going to become even more of a cesspool than it already is at an alarming rate. Crazy how many established social media platforms have decided to crumble at the exact same time.
No, you misunderstand - the limit is on viewing tweets.
Especially considering the way twitter counts a “view” is if the tweet shows up in your app’s viewport, at all. So simply scrolling through the timeline consumes “views” - you could run up against this limit in 10-15 minutes of scrolling.
It’s incredibly stupid.
Verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, he tweeted, while unverified accounts are limited to just 600. New unverified accounts are at 300 posts a day.
This is absolute amateur hour. Why are people still trying to use Twitter.
I think it’s less about keeping the community small and more about not incentivizing karma or whatever scoring equivalent exists.
It's the pendulum swing of pretty much every community on Reddit.
- Community starts out with a small group of users dedicated to quality content related to the topic
- Community growth reaches a point where the most popular posts begin to trend outside of the community
- New users join the community after seeing popular posts show up in their own feeds. Growth accelerates
- Community becomes "popular" enough that posts regularly trend outside of the community
- New users flood in
- Users flood the community with low-effort content to karma farm
- Community now sucks.
It happened to basically every big sub on Reddit once reaching a large enough size.
I truly don't understand why people keep trying to use Twitter despite open and obvious changes designed to be hostile to users. Not to mention the reliability issues that continue to crop up as a result of axing nearly your entire engineering staff.
I am able to get similar quality results out of some custom Stable Diffusion checkpoints like CyberRealism, but prompt engineering takes a lot more time and care.
I often use Midjourney as more of a creative tool as it typically gives high quality creative outputs from relatively basic prompts, which I then will take back to my SD models to reverse engineer and fine tune prompt to get exactly what I’m looking for.
I did, gen’d with Midjourney
Prompt: Gollum using an iPhone inside of an upscale restaurant, hyperrealistic fujifilm xf f/1.8 iso200
Sure, this was gen with Midjourney,
Prompt: a futuristic armored firefighter, full face helmet, reflective, cyberpunk, cinematic color grading --ar 16:9
In order to quickly fix it they would probably have to roll back the change to require login to view tweets, which would be admitting that it wasn’t caused by “attacks” on Twitter, which Elon won’t do. Rock and a hard place.