With the Twitter limits today, I think we are already seeing the fallout begin.
It took me 3 minutes of slow loading to get this and this.
It's been over half an hour now and I still have a blank twitter page, what if today is the day twitter actually goes down.
"Google Cloud hosts many of Twitter’s trust and safety services. If the disagreement isn’t resolved by the end of the month, and if Twitter severs ties with Google Cloud, this could seriously threaten its ability to fight spam, remove child sexual abuse material and generally protect accounts."
So, it only breaks things that are vitally important for Twitter, as well as legally mandated, but not anything Musk actually cares about...
I’m gonna be honest, as someone who couldn’t give less of a crap what happens to Twitter, it’s just hilarious at this point. This is the kind of dumpster fire that warms your hands when it’s really cold out, so you just keep coming back to look at it.
Crazy how being a total asshole to everyone on the planet doesn’t work out in your favor
Having never used Twitter because even at its inception I thought it was a dumb idea, watching it collapse is quality entertainment.
When you pay way too much for a barely-profitable business you have to cut costs somewhere. Firing 80% of the staff and refusing to pay the rent was just the beginning.
That could explain the limits today and changing APIs, blocking Nitter and users not logged in...
The login-block appears to be exasperating the issue, by creating a pull loop, they are DDOS-ing themselves. ~source
They turned off non logged in people, to save resources and it caused the opposite effect, too bad they fired all those developers.
Oh good grief. I thought you were exaggerating.
Two corporation are having a fee dispute...
How is any of this concerning to the online plebs?
If twatter goes down, boohooo, don't use it. Jfc
Are you saying we can’t have a little fun watching Elon slowly destroy his new 44 billion dollar toy?
Unfortunately there are people, especially artists, who rely on Twitter for their career. Few social media platforms are widely used enough and enable viral spread enough to serve those needs. Mastodon unfortunately doesn't have enough adoption for it, and Instagram can be a lot more fussy when it comes to sharing and discoverability.
"Google Cloud hosts many of Twitter’s trust and safety services. If the disagreement isn’t resolved by the end of the month, and if Twitter severs ties with Google Cloud, this could seriously threaten its ability to fight spam, remove child sexual abuse material and generally protect accounts."
So, it only breaks things that are vitally important for Twitter, as well as legally mandated, but not anything Musk actually cares about...
I’m gonna be honest, as someone who couldn’t give less of a crap what happens to Twitter, it’s just hilarious at this point. This is the kind of dumpster fire that warms your hands when it’s really cold out, so you just keep coming back to look at it.
Crazy how being a total asshole to everyone on the planet doesn’t work out in your favor
Having never used Twitter because even at its inception I thought it was a dumb idea, watching it collapse is quality entertainment.
When you pay way too much for a barely-profitable business you have to cut costs somewhere. Firing 80% of the staff and refusing to pay the rent was just the beginning.
That could explain the limits today and changing APIs, blocking Nitter and users not logged in...
The login-block appears to be exasperating the issue, by creating a pull loop, they are DDOS-ing themselves. ~source
They turned off non logged in people, to save resources and it caused the opposite effect, too bad they fired all those developers.
Oh good grief. I thought you were exaggerating.
Two corporation are having a fee dispute...
How is any of this concerning to the online plebs?
If twatter goes down, boohooo, don't use it. Jfc
Are you saying we can’t have a little fun watching Elon slowly destroy his new 44 billion dollar toy?
Unfortunately there are people, especially artists, who rely on Twitter for their career. Few social media platforms are widely used enough and enable viral spread enough to serve those needs. Mastodon unfortunately doesn't have enough adoption for it, and Instagram can be a lot more fussy when it comes to sharing and discoverability.