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Jul 1, 2023Liked by Noah Berlatsky

today twitter put a "view rate limit of 600". Then they lock your activity.

Or pay for a blue check and view 6000. Before they lock your activity.

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it's amazing how utterly useless the site is now. even the fascists are complaining.

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FAFO.

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Imagine being one of the advertisers that Linda Yaccarino just wooed back only to find out that they’re throttling people’s views.

Also, if any sh*tty counted toward my limit of 600, I would be super-pissed. At the moment I am blocking any and all ads I see on Twitter, except the one for the new Oppenheimer movie.

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*ad. If any ad counted toward my daily limit.

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Jul 2, 2023Liked by Noah Berlatsky

Thank you for all your writing, Noah! Since this is "forever", I changed my subscription even if I already got the 25 for this year deal... I appreciate your work very much!

As for flood_dump_fire.gif, there is a third possibility for Skum's idiocy: he may be trying to shake down Prigozhin who is using US social media to run another IRA-style campaign for tfg... Or he is simply Wil E. Coyote (Billionaire)!

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wow; thanks!

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It’s wtf, nary a soupçon of je ne sais anywhere. I am just agog.

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it's really unclear what's going on. some people have suggested he didn't pay his google bill and so has had to limit functions...? but who knows?

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You’d think it’d be embarrassing to fail in public. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Jul 1, 2023Liked by Noah Berlatsky

He thinks he's playing 10-D chess, like the orange azzwhole.

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Omg, I love that idea. Bwahaha! And by the way, I laughed so hard at the cat pic with caption. Perfect!

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Just subscribed, gotta keep on top of these cray cray times and as a bonus, you're helping support gorgeous felines. Win win!

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Is that what's going on? I don't have a twitter account but I've read it for years - then twitter unde jack started making it tough so I went and found nitter which just works. Come Friday noon I discovered the feeds were completely collapse and twitter proper won't let me read a feed at all.

At any rate, he hasn't been paying the rent, mucking with the stack, shutting down server farms and so on, plus he's a billion a month in the hole not including expenses. So there's been an infrastructure collapse? I guess? Bound to happen. Somebody tell the reddit guy.

elm

dumb tech cucks

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it's really unclear what's happening since he lies all the time. could be failing to pay his google bill; he could be trying to get people to sign up for his shitty google blue account, he could be confused and think he is fighting bots or something, he could be making excuses for a glitz. who knows?

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Well he is saying that it was aggressive scraping by AI companies (maybe) but he also pitched it favorably for paying users, and it's reasonably well known that he ´s been abandoning/shutting down server capacity. He may also be trying to his buddy Vlad out a little bit.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/01/twitter-applies-reading-limit-after-users-report-issues-with-platform

elm

a slow-motion murder-suicide

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Sweet cat. Flip your prices last sentence in first paragraph. Enjoy your work.

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oh for god's sake. what is wrong with me.

at least I got it right in the subhead I guess.

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Jul 2, 2023Liked by Noah Berlatsky

You get SO MUCH right, all the important stuff!

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thank you for subscribing!

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