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Dylan said:
Wasn't Twitter supposed to be done year ago because elon is super duper mega dumb dumdum? How many times have we seen the prophecies of teitter's end?
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Yeah, I think this is the third time the site’s shit the bed and Twittertards have threatened to abandon ship.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
Nobody needs twitter for work. Anyone using that excuse is a lost cause.
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I seldom see bluetick posts on my feed despite Elon's promise they got top priority on people's feeds. The only time I see them is under an actual twitter user's post when they're trying to retard link a video and get people to watch and like them for online clout so I very much agree.

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Crossposting from the other thread about this.


Fucking lol, lmao, rotfl, kek, and hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
Apparently Twitter might be fucked because Elon is an even bigger idiot than we all thought.
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And if this is why Twitter is down it means Musk is lying about the data scraping being the cause. Which means everyone on Twitter can now point at him and call him a lying faggot. Be even funnier if his tweet blaming data scraping got hit with a community note.
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When hasn't Musk being a lying faggot? The rat is the king of scamming idiots. Be it cars, cryptos, spaceships, or twitter being "Free".
If he was going to intentionally ruin the site I wish he'd just do it and make the site redirect to meatspin or goatse already.
 
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THERE IS LITERALLY A BUG IN THE TWITTER CODE THAT IS MAKING TWITTER DDOS ITSELF

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Apparently now people are getting this canned response:
"This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can’t complete this action right now. Please try again later".
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Which means they can't like, post, quote, nothing. No idea what Elon has done but its a glorious dumpster fire.
 
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Punished Neco said:
Twitter was quite a useful tool for info gathering in terms of lolcows, for me at least. Pretty useless if you can't archive the tweets to authenticate their authenticity though.

CNN approached Twitter for comment in regards to the Read Limits and TwitterDown thing
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Disrespecting Legacy media is based at least, even if the entire website he bought is burning down around him.
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This has been going on for months now, and I salute the Musklet for at least being consistent in flipping off legacy media.
 
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And now, the words of a competitor.




How Gab Deals With Scraping on the Open Web​

JULY 1, 2023
Nearly everything that is publicly accessible on the Internet is being “scraped” or downloaded by various sources. In the beginning, it was primarily search engines doing this, but this has been forever expanding to include archive sites, researchers, advertising shops, government agencies, and many more organizations who are hungry for data to collect and analyze. It is a fact of life on the open web, and something we at Gab are very familiar with.

Twitter has recently implemented some harsh daily “reading” limits on normal user accounts, and even on paid verified accounts, complaining about the scraping they are being subjected to. We are skeptical if this is the true motivation behind the changes, because there are obviously better ways to combat excessive scraping than to implement blanket limitations on everyone. I use Twitter very lightly, quickly scanning it a few times a day, and I have already received the rate limiting error today. I find it very hard to believe that they cannot handle the traffic from the scraping, or that they cannot address the scraping in the same ways we have.



Through constant monitoring of the site and the sources of traffic we are able to identify specific IPs and networks where scraping is originating. We ban these sources, and continue to ban new ones as they appear. This is why some users on certain VPN locations will be unable to access the site, because that same location was being used to abuse the site. We do also have some rate-limits in place, although they are meant to be a second layer of defense and set at a level we believe is unlikely to be hit by a human user. Protecting the site while keeping everything open and fully accessible to our users and the general public, is our goal. On this, I think we do a great job and strike the right balance.

Twitter has seemingly left the open web, and joined Facebook in requiring everyone to be logged in to view content. This only makes Gab more important as a public source of news and free expression, accessible by anyone anywhere.

Take the ongoing situation in France, for example, and ask yourself, what site would you trust with your browsing and communication? Elon Musk from Twitter met with the French President and will certainly be censoring content on behalf of the government. Twitter will know French users and prevent French users from seeing things, even if they log in through an IP in another country. Gab CEO Andrew Torba tells the French government to get bent, and Gab will support free public discussion without censoring any of it. We seek to export the freedoms of the First Amendment to the World and keep the web free and open. So get on Gab.com and speak freely.

Fosco Marotto
CTO, Gab.com
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Slimy Time said:
Apparently now people are getting this canned response:

Which means they can't like, post, quote, nothing. No idea what Elon has done but its a glorious dumpster fire.
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The only thing this doesn't affect is reacting to a DM, afaik everything else is disabled, you can't even bookmark a tweet.
Edit: You can Retweet too, so you can react to a DM (add a emoji underneath it) and Retweet stuff, nothing else.
 
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ロボ﹏for﹏hire said:
It would be funny if scrappers started targeting Gab instead, imagine training ChatGPT on Gab content.
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Most of these AI startups are run by West Coast progressive bugmen. If a ChatGPT clone started learning its responses from Gab content, they'd terminate it faster than Microsoft terminated poor Tay.
 
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ロボ﹏for﹏hire said:
It would be funny if scrappers started targeting Gab instead, imagine training ChatGPT on Gab content.
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Every glowie agency and "anti-racism" NGO has already scraped Gab. They probably already have, or plan to create, AI models that can post content on 4chan, Gab and the fediverse to drown out discussions and waste time. Gab is a goldmine for Schizo Right beliefs and hyper signally Christianity.
 
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Let's just be clear about one thing.
The people that you see in this thread beating their chests about how they want Twitter to die were fucking ecstatic less than a year ago when Elon took over, and their posts are easy to find.
Now when they are seeing that the Chief Manchild is driving this into the ground and that there are no more libtards to be owned, just Ching Cheongus and Shelllllllenbergers, they have switched their narrative and suddenly are above the fray and distant, mocking observers of an inevitable death.
The sad truth about a lot of users on this site is that they are obsessively in search of some Internet daddy or another, always fawning over some celebrity or another, and always expecting that the Great Huwhite Hope blumpf or muskovitch will perform some miracle for their ass.
Permission to switch narrative denied lmao
 
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AgendaPoster said:
The people that you see in this thread beating their chests about how they want Twitter to die were fucking ecstatic less than a year ago when Elon took over
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Yes, because he would either make it useful, or kill it stone dead with terrible choices. Either way is a win. Killing is preferable.
 
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AgendaPoster said:
The people that you see in this thread beating their chests about how they want Twitter to die were fucking ecstatic less than a year ago when Elon took over, and their posts are easy to find.
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I have always said I'm fine with Elon either making Twitter good (which I did not expect because it is shit) or burning it to the ground. Almost all the attacks on this site come from either there or reddit.
 
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