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'Rate limit exceeded;' Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site or faced difficulty and delays Saturday.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I just find it interesting how the fixation on API and things of that nature is happening all of a sudden across the different platforms.

You can say it's Musk being Musk or Reddit setting up for their IPO, but a similar thing has been going on with instagram as well. They had rate limiting for a long time for those without accounts. Then back in May it started to get worse. At the same time they began banning/suspending accounts for merely just existing. The common theme was those accounts only had email attached to them.

It just seems there's a real push to isolate things and Twitter and Instagram really want verification.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

its about the big datasets required to train systems to interact with and generate content as human beings... as usual, its a profit motive.

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