“Twitter Twitches” by Zvi

The situation is evolving rapidly. Here’s where we stand as of the morning of July 4th.

Well You See What Happened Was…

Oh no! To be clear, by twitches, I mean ‘Elon refused to pay the cloud bill.’

As a result, Twitter has been forced to rate limit users.

This started out as 600 posts per day for most accounts, 300 posts per day for new accounts and 6,000 posts per day for those who pay.

This is now up to 1k/500/10k according to one Musk tweet.

If you are not logged in, you get nothing. Even direct links will break.

Tweetdeck has been forced into a new worse version, but now works again. In 30 days, this will be for paid accounts only, which seems fair.

That fourth one hurts my process. Navigation is somewhat slower and more annoying. In particular, forced threading breaks chronological order assumptions and one’s ability to use duplication to locate one’s place, and zooming in to move around twisting Twitter threads is so bad you need to jump to Twitter itself. Navigation to zoom back requires clicking in annoying places. I was unable to configure the column order without deleting them all and then [...]

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First published:
July 4th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GFagfc5aYsRGQu7DL/twitter-twitches

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.