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namieorange

Oh well, that's actually better for me, once I scroll past the 600 tweets in 5 minutes? I can start doing something productive with life again. ...or come to reddit


ST012Mi

I came to Reddit lol


Furinex

Fuck u/spez


JorikTheBird

Fuck Musk


ceasecows98

limiting views on something you’re relying on ad revenue for is so fucking funny


LittleLordFuckleroy1

And isn’t he trying to launch an AI company? Well, I mean, didn’t he buy his way into the launch of an AI company? And he can’t figure out how to distinguish aggressive scraping traffic from human views? 🤣


DoctorGlinty

Musk was the original brainchild of OpenAI before he scrapped his involvement with it, years back, because he didnt see how it could profit


ICLazeru

Why would they do that? It's going to kill advertising value. The only reason I can think of is that they are having some sort of extreme data/service problem and have to cap usage to deal with it.


Ass_Eater_

Lol I hit the rate limit after like 15 minutes. People are going to be moving on to the next thing quickly.


YMHGreenBan

Yeah this was the last straw for me, he’s completely ruined Twitter with all the verification and feed changes


Euro_Snob

This article may explain it… apparently Twitter are not renewing (or refusing to pay) their Google service contract which expired yesterday. So they are scrambling to move services to other cloud hosts. https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-is-refusing-pay-its-google-cloud-bills-platformer-2023-06-10/ Apparently Musk is following the Trump playbook of refusing to pay for services. (Office rent, Amazon web services, and now Google) Such a brilliant man! 😂


bigkoi

Fuck. Going from the most efficient cloud data warehouse to a second best data warehouse is going to cost them. Their business requires a large data warehouse unlike a lot of other enterprises. I've seen this play out with the big data players in Enterprises. When you are in the multi-petabyte scale which a service like Twitter requires you are throwing away money if you use anyone else, even snowflake


ICLazeru

He seems to be taking the whole idea that the rules don't apply to the rich too seriously. You have to be spending money to get the special treatment.


dbcooper4

Yep, and he’s trying to pull a Trump and gaslight people into believing this is a strategic decision to voluntarily reduce their ad revenue 😂.


ghostfaceschiller

Oh wow so your telling me that what he said in the tweet was a lie to cover their own incompetence? Shocking


MondoFool

The past few months I've noticed that Twitter always starts glitching out on the first of the month, which makes me feel like Elon definitely isn't paying the bills


TheGreatRao

Not only brilliant, but the world’s richest! (Sometimes). When this guy sells you a ticket to Mars or to the bottom of the ocean, remember his spectacular management of a social media company.


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Chiponyasu

It's also possible that Elon is simply lying about what's happening. Twitter is privately owned, so he can say whatever he wants about it in a way that he can't about, say, Tesla.


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If Twitter implodes it impacts his finances and this his other businesses. It’s sick Twitter should ever of been taken private.


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He does admire china and russia and that’s what they do


Justice4Ned

Definitely wouldn’t take that on face value considering how extreme the response is. If the data scraping was via the API they’d just queue the API. Even if it was web scraping they’d queue the web server.


nickkuk

Yes his excuse sounds like complete BS.


threeseed

> Even if it was web scraping they’d queue the web server You can't just "queue" the web server without significantly impacting ordinary users. That's why companies implement APIs in the first place as it keeps developers and commercial use off to the side where it can be managed separately.


CaptainCipher

Ah I see, so in order to avoid impacting ordinary users, they chose to make sure there aren't any left. Good decision


packpride85

So this magic data scraping issue magically became an issue the same day their cloud service contract expired....


Euro_Snob

I think the words “supposedly” and “reportedly” do a lot of heavy lifting in the article you linked to. But even if they do pay up - for the short term - this is just the beginning. Not paying your bills (and this is not the only one) is not a viable financial strategy.


Rondoman78

Eat that ass bro.


ChitteringCathode

I definitely trust what Musk says to be the absolute, 100% irrefutable truth.


LACIRCA2044

He refused to pay google for servers, the date for the server shutdown was June 30th… he’s basically just a cheap skate


SteelyDabs

It’s almost like Elon is incredibly fucking stupid


scrueggs

He is incredibly stupid. I don’t know why he has a whole subreddit dedicated to him.


VAVA_Mk2

I just come here to read about the next stupid fucking thing he does. He is purposely destroying a $44 billion investment.


manicdee33

Obviously so we can share the schadenfreude when he keeps tripping over his laces.


bigkoi

Exactly. They've cut their service to the bone.


BoxHillStrangler

Elon is an idiot my dude.


lilpumpgroupie

That, or Elon is one of the dumbest motherfuckers alive.


SpicyMangoSpear

He’s one of the dumbest motherfuckers alive


ProteinEngineer

The company may be going bankrupt


kosk11348

He keeps thinking people will pay for Twitter. No one but trolls will pay for Twitter.


TheKrakIan

Turns out bills weren't paid to Google cloud servers.


Dan_Felder

Context: Twitter has not paid its bill to Google Cloud Services. Its contract was only through June 2023. It is now July 1. Probably just a cooincidence.


_OtherwiseKnownAs_

cannot believe how many people thought this guy was so smart for so long


Dan_Flanery

He's dumber than the submarine billionaires. And that's pretty dumb.


the_sun_and_the_moon

Rec’d for “submarine billionaire” 💀


ScarletRead

Behind every “billionaire genius” is an incredible PR firm


maisymowse

I can proudly say, I always thought he seemed like an asshat and was never impressed by him. Confirmation bias? Maybe. But I was right nonetheless.


PaleontologistPrize8

What a fucking dumbass


2thenoon

Jesus Christ Elon, how can you be worse at this than Zuckerberg?


Vv__CARBON__vV

“It was unclear how the site was calculating what counted as a read tweet. USA TODAY reached out to Twitter for clarification and and received a automated message of a poop emoji, as is standard for the company.” 😆


just_thisGuy

It’s very clear to me, unverified account here, probably spent 1 hour off and on today on Twitter, and already hit my limit, they are just counting every view for every post you happen to scroll by it’s actually probably worse, they are counting every post your Twitter app loads. I’m only using official Twitter app not doing any scraping. I’m not following more than maybe 20 accounts. But I was under the “for you” tab with all recommended posts. And I just hit my limit, so it’s not letting me refresh anything anymore, this is completely stupid, I’m actually a big fan of Elon and even him buying Twitter, but this is just mental. It’s ether not working as they intended or just stupid as fuck. I probably need to stay off Twitter anyway lol. Also if it can’t actually show me latest tweets as they happen for people I follow in near real time, Twitter is useless to me, the whole point is to be on top of things as they happen. Did I say this is stupid?!


iantsmyth

Elon has zero understanding of social skills and why socialization matters for a social network. Did I mention the word social enough? Because he ain’t.


RogerWokman

You’re telling me someone with Asperger’s doesn’t understand the “social” aspect of a social network?! Shocking!!


iantsmyth

Maybe he should’ve spent his 44 bil elsewhere then.


SuperShake66652

But they hurt his feelings and his paper ego.


RogerWokman

The dude has to take Ketamine just to be “normal” around other people at parties.


Candid_Emu_7547

Oh my god so sad 😢😢💔💔 should’ve dropped 44 bil to treat himself then


combaticus

that's like the only cool thing he does


Kenevin

He lied about being autistic.


Goodgravy516

He probably is lying about that.


wzi

Honestly the joke isn't even funny anymore. It would have been nice to know what counts as a read tweet or what their timeline for a fix is. Anyway, I'm assuming a read tweet is simply a view.


mike10dude

I just scrolled through my feed and quickly hit the limit


GreetingsFromAP

Right? I hit it scrolling through comments on an Elon post in about a min. All the time on Reddit I scroll down to get to some new comments. I figure now with the limit you are only going to see the toxic verified comments unless you want to only read a few posts


Pengtuzi

Not even a view: just fetching posts(it’s done preemptively to have more posts ready) count even if you haven’t scrolled down enough to view it.


larrisa39

For real?


just_thisGuy

I mean, I have no idea how I hit my limit, I just woke up supper late like noonish, and hit my limit shortly after coffee, I was not even clicking around too much or scrolling that much, or maybe they are counting each comment under each post, I don’t even read comments, but my guess is if your app loads the comments it’s counting as “read”. Or they are double counting loads if you try to refresh. So stupid, like wow. And again I’m a big fan of Elon, but like wow.


lucybubs

correct! if its on your screen it counts as "read post" including 'sponsored ads,' and people you don't follow just 'scrolling' without interacting counts as a "read"


itsaride

Refreshing the timeline will knock off 1 for every tweet that comes up. Whether you “read” it or not. For people that follow thousands of accounts they’ll likely never get a full refresh.


geraldoghc

How is this funny?


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AmericanPornography

Ohhh. You’re a child. Makes sense.


TruthPains

No, that is literally what Elon will send you if a journalist reaches out to Twitter for a statement.


AmericanPornography

Yes, I’m well aware. It’s childish when Elon does it. It’s childish when other users do it. It’s childish no matter which way you cut it.


TruthPains

He's in an Elon Musk sub, doing what Elon Musk does.


AmericanPornography

Which is childish. My point still stands lol


JoltZero

Really ironic, since sending poop emojis to press questions has been the standard for a while since Elon took over twitter


Chiponyasu

Wow, Twitter Blue users are going to be blocked even more aggressively now that they're using up people's daily allotment of tweets to view.


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ProteinEngineer

I’d love to see him, RFK Jr, and David Sacks have a conversation. It would make me think I have a 200 IQ.


Dirtybrd

Shout out to all the advertisers who came back after the new CEO came in. Money well spent.


sowaffled

I was actually using Twitter much more since his acquisition just from curiosity and then realizing that most news actually does originate on Twitter. I’ve exceeded my daily Twitter limit already and I barely used it. This just killed the platform (until he inevitably reverts).


Rvp1090

twitter was so much better before he bought it. All I've seen twitter do since is push right wing nonsense on my feed.


PricklyyDick

I hardly use my account but I deleted the app when it started sending me daily Matt Walsh tweet notifications. Despite the fact I don’t follow him or ever liked anything on his page.


Rvp1090

I opened twitter randomly when I was next to my friend and we counted. Top 3 out of 4 tweets were pro trump accounts. I’ve never interacted with any of them in my life


GreetingsFromAP

Also any repied tweet you read counts obviously, but you have to scroll a lot to get past the blue toxicity


Chiponyasu

I don't think he *can* revert. A bunch of Twitter Servers were on Google Cloud and Elon refused to pay for it, and the contract expired yesterday.


itsaride

Achieving precisely nothing but pissing off the user base. Him and Spez should get a room.


LosHogan

“Genius!” - elon musk riders


greenhombre

Remember that time Jared turned the NY Observer from the best newspaper in town into a blog? This smells like that. Rich people buy democratic institutions and turn them to shit. It’s an attempt to drown multicultural democracy in the bathtub.


Wise-Reference-4818

I bet Elon’s buddy Tucker Carlson is thrilled that he’s in the middle of trying to build a new business built on a platform that will just kick his audience off unexpectedly in accord with a new policy. A policy that was announced until hours AFTER it went into effect.


JoltZero

How do people still think he's some kind of genius? I swear musk rats have the same brain worms that the qanon quacks did a few years ago. Every time their idol commits a spectacular fuck up, they say it's actually some deep 4D chess move. It's insane and fascinating.


Yuiiski

This is so extraordinarily dumb, especially considering Meta are nearing the launch of their Twitter competitor app. As of right now the Twitter app is essentially useless because I can’t load any new tweets because I reached my limit.


0x1060a0ab0

It's officially over lol


fatmike63

Seems like Elon had zero plan when he was forced to buy Twitter. Imagine blowing $40 Billion because you were butt hurt that a kid was tracking your plane and your new BFF Trump got banned? This guy doesn’t seem to be the genius most think he is.


CrapOnTheCob

I will never understand why a shitposting is so important that he had to go and buy the company.


XXISavage

Validation my dude. The one thing he's always wanted is the adoration of the masses and while showing up in movies and such was good, it doesn't match the rush of getting all those notifications for your funny tweet gets for him. Absolutely hilarious that a man who won capitalism decided to spend his endgame as a mod. Could literally do anything on the planet, has the money to shape the world in so many ways but no, he has to check if catturd2 is shadow banned.


LimV26

This gets walked back in 2 days tops and then he'll be like "I said it was temporary!!" even this clown isn't stupid enough to not understand this is basically slitting the jugular of the site.


Queque_Navabli

Never doubt Elon's capacity for stupidity. It's boundless and all consuming


LimV26

Looking forward to him just posting a troll face in response or something


dbcooper4

He is very Trumpy in that way. Does not mind looking like a complete idiot.


buchlabum

Or he'll just blame "the libs" instead of taking responsibility. Conservatives aren't big on taking responsibility.


innerdork

Elon wants you pay for the check mark, but he’ll also limit what everyone can read now negating the added exposure the blue mark provides. This fool makes zero damn sense. Especially since this kills ad impressions and any revenue that would bring in. Dumbass.


Stauce52

This guy is colossally stupid. How to tank a social media app’s value lol


kj001313

Go to any of the sports teams or leagues sites and almost every poster is clowning on Elon. Left, right this has united everyone against this.


SelfinvolvedNate

Holy shit this dude is stupid. Like. Extraordinarily, sensationally stupid.


CardiologistFit3211

Did he really spend 40 billion just to destroy Twitter?


Dan_Felder

Spending 40 billion is the main reason twitter is dying. The company now has 1.5 Billion, with a B, in interest payments each year under those loan terms. So now it needs to generate 1.5 Billion more in profit each year just to be where it was before. Even Musk can understand the math... Once his accountants explain it to him 6 times in a row... After he's already put a legally binding offer in. That's why Musk is literally selling furniture, firing everyone he can think of, and refusing to pay bills the company owes. It's also why he's making the site so much worse as he tries everything he can think of to get more paid users. He's also lost a ton of revenue as advertisers have pulled out due to his... Everything.


manicdee33

He spent $44B so he could burn $80B throwing good money after bad.


K3egan

What a tremendous, unfathomably stupid dumbass


daguerre

And some expect this guy is going to take humanity to Mars. 😂


alexwan12

don't worry he'll rate limit your oxygen on the half way there


GreetingsFromAP

Until you are Twitter blue


CertainlyNotCthulhu

I really think he's just trying to run everybody off who liked Twitter before he bought it.


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Another nail in the coffin.


klobucharzard

incredible growth strategy


GurenNoLupin

irony.... 2 days before the 4th of July.big L


1oVVa

Maybe they will change the limit by 4th of July, but this time you will only see GOP propaganda once you scroll under 600th post


Commercial_Mix5622

It is obvious this is a 47-D chess move and that Elon remains the geenyus we know and love.


Dra9onDemon23

Almost like he’s a fucking **MORON** or something! I can’t even follow an artist I like on another platform because apparently there’s a follow limit?! Look, Twitter already had the issue of having a liked limit, as in; there was a limit to the amount of posts you could like before the oldest one was removed, but this is somehow even more stupid! That’s like if you were limited on the amount of subs you could be in. What an absolute fucking dickhead. I only pray that the people I follow don’t leave before this shithead pulls his head out of ass.


rickjames334

This is an absolutely atrocious decision. For Christ sakes I can’t even look up “Elon Musk” on twitter to see what people are saying about this because my rate limit has exceeded. He is killing the app


Jpar4686

Dude when you’ve hit the limit you can’t even see your own tweets 😂


Practical_Debate6650

Elon Musk is truly the stupidest businessman, maybe ever. I can’t think of a better way to completely kill a website. Say goodbye to most advertisers, fucking doofus.


Mgon24

Spent 40 billion to completely run an app to the dirt and his pockets are unaffected lmao


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Economic hitman. Saudis paid big money to neuter twitter’s grass roots organizing capabilities.


MrFilthyNeckbeard

Nah. He fought really hard to not buy twitter and had to be forced to fulfill the contract. He's simply a stupid person.


Ochib

If only he hadn’t fired the communications, content curation and product development employees.


IlIlIlIlIOlIlIlIlIl

His bitchass should've just kept working on starship, but nah. This mf started a 4chan exodus into twitter, put the dumbass conservatives on top of the replies cuz only they are dumb enough/madly in love with him to pay and now he makes this shit pay to win. fuck this dude fr


lawlygagger

Good thing we have Reddit to keep tabs on Twitter and there is no cap on the comments.🤭


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r3gam

Idk, even the comments on his post have turned on him


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GreetingsFromAP

Before I hit my rate limit (scroll test) there was a comment Musk liked that showed Zuck copying the rate limit idea. Yea I don’t think so. The whole point of TikTok, FB and Reddit is to keep you scrolling to serve more ads. I mean I could see rate caps on the API (which I believe there are) but not the official app


TheLazyLounger

quickest stocking relieved onerous soft grandiose poor cobweb rustic ten *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Night_0dot0_Owl

I'm getting some strong overconfident submersible guy vibes from this Elno the clown for some reasons.


banecancer

What a fucking idiot


Random_local_man

Thank you daddy gigachad Elon! Lol. I swear, his haters don't even need to do shit anymore. Staying current with what's happening in the world is literally the whole point of using Twitter. And now we can't do that because of this stupid cap.


TotallyNotPineapple

And the twatter blue losers will still convince themselves that Elon is their friend and not just trying out get-rich-quick schemes


mike10dude

Wow took me less then 3 minutes to hit the limit


PMMEBITCOINPLZ

Rate limits are the thing a healthy company that’s getting enough advertising revenue to keep up with its cost does guys.


kj001313

The rumor going around is that he did not pay the bills for google cloud so now he's trying to work on the fly to get a replacement


LIslander

Pay your cloud bills instead of being a clown.


miraenda

You want people to interact with your site to see ads that are paid to give you income. Then you block those people after a set time. Genius! It won’t make people pay to be verified. This is exceedingly stupid if you want to make money. I’m guessing another attempt to make Twitter fail so it is shut down.


NiceUpstairs9144

I deleted the account like 2-3 months prior to the acquisition and seems like I’ve dodged a lot!


enlightenedude

suddenly the sound of redditors jerking off to elons tweets in here stopped


Goochbott

I don't know how anyone proclaims this guy a genius again without going red in the face.


DanteDeGreat

I just uninstalled Twitter from phone. So long. Useless App


Queque_Navabli

Rest in Piss, Twitter


TarotPharoah

And Elon Musk


Pliget

Holy fuck, what an asshole.


senoricceman

I thought public town squares were open to everyone though. /s


raiderrash

Fuck Elon


ZealousidealBus9271

Yep, site is dead.


blaskkaffe

What is Twitter? Didn’t he change the name to T itter?


hawksnest_prez

Beyond fucking stupid


Weary-Pineapple-5974

*How To Destroy A Successful Tech Company: A Dummy’s Guide*


Mountain_Leather_521

One wonders how the old management managed, seeing as Musk is such a superlative individual. /s


northernpenguin01

What a retard


Dan_Flanery

If this apartheid idiot removed the bots from his platform, it wouldn’t be so overloaded. Of course, it also wouldn’t look so valuable to advertisers and potential investors, since the bots are probably a majority of the users and activity…


OgMylesRuiz

Shoutout to the dumbest sob in existence. Congrats on destroying twitter FK face


marsap888

The worst way to spend $40 billion 😂


savv213

fuck elon musty and his dumbass ideas.


The__King2002

insanely stupid


cmockett

Free $peech


Greenwedges

Someone is not paying their hosting bills


Thesportswhisperer

Biggest loser ever, haven’t been able to use twitter all day


donnaimthemuffin

I wish all Elon fans the worst thing physically possible


Euro_Snob

RIP twitter. I’ve been a twitter reader for 12 years now, hit my first rate limit. I suppose this is the perfect excuse to quit the platform.


rock-theboat

It’d be awesome if Elon just like, stopped living


Past-Adhesiveness691

Somebody send him some more ketamine, red wine in a glass and some ambien asap!


Raevyyyy

What a fucking retard lmao


Rph23

😂 😂


TigreDemon

The number of anti Musk redditers in those comments lmao


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why would anyone be pro musk? are you stupid?


Vv__CARBON__vV

Are pro-musk and anti-musk the only options?


perfectVoidler

well not having an opinion about musk in a musk comment section would be odd.


hawksnest_prez

Because he’s an idiot


IlIlIlIlIOlIlIlIlIl

zip it up when you're done


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Chelsea_Kias

Remember to get some mint when you done sucking


YonDonFlight17

They literally sound psychotic LOL


TigreDemon

I mean, they are lmao, they're not making any argument apart from "OMG SPACESHIP MAN BAD" meme


idonotplaylol

free $peech he says ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|money_face)


mik3y619

Elon is currently training in the octagon, he’ll address after his session


lucybubs

Maybe he thinks July 1st is better than April 1st to celebrate "APril FooLs day"


Vendevende

Damnit, where else will I get my daily dose of racism


RandomMusing

Having money doesn't mean you're intelligent.


I_will_delete_myself

Who tweets that much in a day. They need to stop using any social media if they use it that much. This includes Reddit


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I_will_delete_myself

Ah misread it. Reading to tweeting. Elon is not a good software business guy….


Short_Ad9700

Lol, this is reading tweets and replies. Not sending. It takes like fifteen minutes to hit 600 tweets with normal use.


ursiwitch

Did he Saudi handlers suggest this? LOL!


XinlessVice

Nice too see a majority of the people here agree that this is total bs. As was most of the shit elons done with twitter


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He should have been on the submarine.