Walop@sopuli.xyz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoTwitter is down, users getting Rate limit exceeded errorswww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down10
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minus-squareHelluin@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 year agoappareantly theyre agressively rate limiting: 300 posts per day for new accounts, 600 for unverified, 6000 for verified
minus-squarekaty ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI bet Elon is furiously Googling how to downgrade to a micro/free tier instance on AWS.
minus-squareSomeOtherUsername@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoDo they actually have an issue with scraping or are they just trying to get more people signed up for Twitter Blue?
minus-squareDan_Rachevaski@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agothe latter is more likely. I mean hey, he’s a businessman first and foremost. Gotta squeeze and cut and squeeze every penny you can.
appareantly theyre agressively rate limiting: 300 posts per day for new accounts, 600 for unverified, 6000 for verified
I bet Elon is furiously Googling how to downgrade to a micro/free tier instance on AWS.
Do they actually have an issue with scraping or are they just trying to get more people signed up for Twitter Blue?
the latter is more likely. I mean hey, he’s a businessman first and foremost. Gotta squeeze and cut and squeeze every penny you can.