back to article Twitter rate-limits itself into a weekend of chaos

It's been a few weeks since the chaos at Twitter rose to a level worth noting, but that changed this weekend when owner and CTO Elon Musk announced the imposition of limits on how many tweets users can see each day. It began on the afternoon of Saturday, July 1 with a tweet from Musk informing tweeps that harsh rate limits …

  1. Fruit and Nutcase Silver badge
    Alert

    Hey Elon

    Hey Elon – here's an idea for your next poll: 'Should donate all my money and worldly goods to good causes and go and join a silent religious order?'

    1. Bebu Silver badge
      Big Brother

      Re: Hey Elon

      《go and join a silent religious order?'》

      The headless monks would have to be favourite.

      1. Fred Flintstone Gold badge

        Re: Hey Elon

        A couple of years as a monk as portrayed in Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail would be better.

        Heck, I'd even donate the plank.

        :)

        1. Groo The Wanderer

          Re: Hey Elon

          Dei ye sae su Diminae...

    2. Fruit and Nutcase Silver badge

      Re: Hey Elon

      Here is a Californian who did just that...

      Ann Russell Miller/Sister Mary Joseph

      https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/24/my-mum-the-nun-by-mark-r-miller-age-61-ann-russell-miller-entered-a-monastery

      (And... just like Musk, she had 10 children - though, unlike him, she carried them to term and then some)

  2. A Non e-mouse Silver badge
    Facepalm

    A few weeks ago he said Twitter was now only worth half what he paid for it. With this weekend's screw-up, is there any value left in the kitty? I mean, a site that makes money from people seeing its content restricts its users ability to see content can't be worth much now, can it?

    1. that one in the corner Silver badge

      Ah, but the article doesn't say that the adverts are being rate limited.

      The further you scroll, the greater the ad:tweet ratio becomes - it'll work because by the time you get to 80% plus ads you have sunk into the state of infinite scroll hypnosis.

      With appropriate scaling, they can guarantee that you will never actually hit the tweet limit within any 24 hour period. You noticed Musk adjusting the limit up a couple of times? That was just the result of live testing: a few die-hard fanatics were scrolling faster than the in-house testers (both of him) managed. Probably the International Thumb War champion amongst them (not in the Musk Time Zone or "Elon Sols" as it is known).

      1. sabroni Silver badge

        re: The further you scroll, the greater the ad:tweet ratio becomes

        You'd have to have no idea how humans behave to think that's a good idea.

        1. MrDamage Silver badge

          Re: re: The further you scroll, the greater the ad:tweet ratio becomes

          We both know the vast majority of humans don't think.

  3. mark l 2 Silver badge

    Sound like another case of him trying to save a few $ by rate limiting for him to not understand how the Twitter site works and that it might end up costing more in the long run.

    Social media relies on engagement and if people get to their allotted 600 tweets viewed, I doubt they will all be rushing to pay for a subscription to see more, more likely they will just open another app such as Instagram and carry on doom scrolling on there, so Zuckerberg will be getting more ad views and therefore revenue and not Twitter.

    1. Jellied Eel Silver badge

      Sound like another case of him trying to save a few $ by rate limiting for him to not understand how the Twitter site works and that it might end up costing more in the long run.

      Social media relies on engagement..

      .. And social conditioning relies on disengagement. I'm kinda curious how many Twitterati will actually hit their quotas, and if they do, should perhaps consider their life choices. But in the wider world of politics, governments are looking for ways to censor 'social' media. We've seen this already with accounts being cancelled for offending TPTB by not blindly following various narratives, or expressing unpopular views. Assorted AI and 'fact checkers' are hoping to make big money providing censorship tools, and have been training their bots using Twitter & Facebook content. If bot herders are making money, or weaponising Twitter, doesn't some countermeasure seem reasonable?

      1. sabroni Silver badge

        Elon's arse

        How far up do you have to crawl for things to look like that?

        (Consider their life choices? Like shilling for the richest man on the planet as he fucks a business he doesn't understand?)

      2. jmch Silver badge

        "trying to save a few $ by rate limiting for him to not understand how the Twitter site works"

        I'm not sure that's right. 600 tweets at half a minute per tweet is 5 hours. Even the most hardcore of 'free' Twitter users would be hard pressed to push those limits,

        And even the fastest speed reader / speed scroller reading tweets at 6/minute would take up all almost 17 hours to read 6000 tweets, so that higher limit is clearly designed to limit bots, not real human users (as, in fact, stated by Twitter).

        I'm pretty sure that for all the screw-ups, Twitter know how many tweets/day the vast majority of real human users can read and set their limits accordingly after a couple of tweaks.

        1. Dave@Home

          What counts as a read though?

          Because theres a good chance just scrolling past counts towards that limit

          1. P_Jamez

            Re: What counts as a read though?

            Yep, I saw posts about posts that got a lot of replies, causing the original poster to hit their limit.

        2. Ben Tasker

          > I'm not sure that's right. 600 tweets at half a minute per tweet is 5 hours. Even the most hardcore of 'free' Twitter users would be hard pressed to push those limits,

          Tap into one of those tweets.

          Oh no, it has 1000 replies - goodbye today's rate limits.

          As someone mentioned below, there have even been cases of people hitting the rate limit because of the number of replies on a tweet *they* posted.

          Not to mention, those that have found that - once you've hit the limit - you can't even view your own tweets.

          Is it possible to build rate-limiting that works the way it is in your head? Certainly. Is that what Twitter have done? No.

          1. jmch Silver badge

            "Is it possible to build rate-limiting that works the way it is in your head? Certainly. Is that what Twitter have done? No."

            Aha! seems like I was missing an essential piece of information there! As to who would even think that reading a tweet would automatically count reading all the replies.... well I guess all the best engineers quit as soon as the dumpster fire became apparent

        3. doublelayer Silver badge

          When you come to this site, how many articles do you read and how many comments? Did you read the tens of comments that were on this page? I'm guessing you did when you replied to them. It doesn't take half a minute to read each comment and most are significantly longer than a tweet would be.

    2. Flocke Kroes Silver badge

      Thanks to misreading your post ...

      ... I just realised why the rate limits got increased several times in a row:

      Elon kept getting locked out because the servers mistook him for a robot scraping Twitter.

      1. iron Silver badge

        Re: Thanks to misreading your post ...

        Well he would have trouble proving he's human.

        Unlike the android Zuck I don't know what Musk is but it definitely isn't human.

    3. Dan 55 Silver badge

      It would be a rash thing to take anything Musk says at face value given he's a compulsive liar.

      There might be a rate limit to stop scraping (doubt it, it was never a problem before), it might just be an effort to cut cloud bills by putting everything behind a login screen that backfired as clients not expecting the login screen started DDOSing it, or there just might just be a system disappearing up its own arse with nobody around who can fix it.

      We'll never know until until Canada takes in some of Musk's H1B slaves and they start talking.

  4. abend0c4

    CEO of Twitter ... Linda Yaccarino

    I'm sure the section of her CV where she recounts her tenure at Twitter will be fascinating future reading.

    1. elDog

      Re: CEO of Twitter ... Linda Yaccarino

      I'm sure that period of time will be called "Undergoing rehabilitation."

      1. Benegesserict Cumbersomberbatch Silver badge

        Re: CEO of Twitter ... Linda Yaccarino

        Mmm. Rehabilitation literally means "being made useful again".

        I would be careful about whether someone is professionally useful at all after a gig like that.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: CEO of Twitter ... Linda Yaccarino

      In the future, everyone will be Twiter CEO for 15 minutes.

      1. that one in the corner Silver badge

        Re: CEO of Twitter ... Linda Yaccarino

        "Your turn to hold the Twitter Control Panel[1]; each button is a policy you can enact[2]"

        [1] TWP, proudly made by Vtech

        [2] No, no, it is just a fancy word that means "do". Now, where did you put your drink[3]?

        [3] Tommee Tippee's latest "CEO proof" model.

      2. Korev Silver badge
        Joke

        Re: CEO of Twitter ... Linda Yaccarino

        > In the future, everyone will be Twiter CEO for 15 minutes.

        I thought that was Prime Minister of the UK...

        (BTW isn't it time we had a new one?)

        1. Arthur the cat Silver badge

          Re: CEO of Twitter ... Linda Yaccarino

          I thought that was Prime Minister of the UK...

          There was a period in the late 90s when a succession of Conservative Party leaders seemed to last about half the time of their predecessors. Had that continued everybody in the world would have been Tory leader by about 2003, the last for about 3 nanoseconds.

      3. Arthur the cat Silver badge

        Re: CEO of Twitter ... Linda Yaccarino

        In the future, everyone will be Twiter CEO for 15 minutes.

        Non serviam.

    3. Orv Silver badge

      Re: CEO of Twitter ... Linda Yaccarino

      I assume she wants the job so she can leverage her way into the right-wing media sphere, where she'll be on wingnut welfare for life.

    4. Bebu Silver badge
      Gimp

      Re: CEO of Twitter ... Linda Yaccarino

      《I'm sure the section of her CV where she recounts her tenure at Twitter will be fascinating future reading.》

      "I thought I was joining an Artificial Reality outfit but in the end reality didn't figure at all. More meta-Curse then Verse."

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Public speaking anxiety

    The only reason the Fail Whale hired Linda Yaccarino is so he himself doesn't have to appear in front of the European Parliament or US Congress whenever Twitter has royally screwed up again and the CEO is summoned to explain themselves.

  6. Muscleguy

    It is utterly crap

    I am being punished in the new regime because I have a quick brain. I keep being put in the bot cage for liking tweets ‘too quickly’. No matter what stratagems I use to slow it down, to attempt to measure the time (highly variable) etc have come cropper of the capricious new rules. Anything seems to be the rule. I am currently in the bot cage for the fourth time today. Yesterday I spent most of the day in it from the first ‘infringement’.

    The whole thing is both arbitrary and capricious. You are given no time limit for your punishment and no notification for when it has ended.

    I have seen a suggestion this is actually because Musk has extended his ‘get paid only if you sue us’ attitude to office rent to paying for hosting, server farms etc. So Twitter itself is being rate limited in response.

    Advertisers need to know there are fewer eyes on twitter as we are all serving time outs.

    1. Jan 0 Silver badge

      Re: It is utterly crap

      Ah diddums.

    2. sabroni Silver badge
      Boffin

      Re: The whole thing is both arbitrary and capricious.

      When a service spends all it's time telling you to fuck off, maybe you should listen?

    3. iron Silver badge

      Re: It is utterly crap

      Anyone with a quick brain either left Twitter long ago or never joined.

      I'm in the later camp.

    4. tiggity Silver badge

      Re: It is utterly crap

      Back in pre COVID, pre WFH days when I regularly took the train as part of work commute (train had lots of college students too) I used to be impressed at the lightning speed students scrolled and liked posts on various social media apps: I could see why any attempt to flag "bots" could easily trap people like those students (I'm a great speed reader & I could not have read stuff at the speed they did, either they had phenomenal reading speed or they were "skimming" posts & "liking" on general gist of post (or maybe just liking as a social nicety) )

  7. Paul Crawford Silver badge

    I found I could not see Twitter posts due to the need to sign in. So I have not.

    Did I miss anything? Thought not...

    I presume now the BBC et al will stop posting Twitter on their site as it is not generally viewable? Death march continues...

    1. Muscleguy

      Agreed, I lurked without logging in having several people’s twitter pages open for some time before taking the plunge myself in reaction to one fo them getting egregiously banned by the gender borg lying. If you cannot see what it’s like why would you join it?

    2. dinsdale54

      Additionally, Perhaps El Reg could consider not filling an article about how Twitter is difficult to access with endless links to Twitter. Duh!

      1. Dan 55 Silver badge

        Here's a hint for news websites, it's possible to link to and embed Mastodon posts and it actually works unlike Musk's $44bn albatross!

        But I do think websites should continue embedding tweets, every page with an embedded tweet is contributing to DDOSing Twitter.

        1. Charlie Clark Silver badge

          I don't like embedded tweets: it's passing my IP-address to another provider without my permission (this is the whole reason behind it, a sane system would provide an API).

          Mining Twitter for AI? I think not. The days of "sentiment analysis" based on Twitter passed as soon as researches realised that it's full of bots and the few users who aren't bots are from a very skewed dynamics. Pity the journalists never got this note, but it was just so easy to copy and paste a few quotes as "representative" of opinion.

          I now heard several reports that rate limiting was enforced as part of contractual negotiations…

    3. heyrick Silver badge

      I used to lurk reading the tweets of a couple of people I know. Now I can't. Nor can anybody else that isn't actively on Twitter.

      I wonder how long until people come up on tweeting stuff on that site. There are other, less actively hostile, alternatives.

      1. Arthur the cat Silver badge

        There are other, less actively hostile, alternatives.

        Unfortunately none of the have Twitter's reach. Mastodon has its own quiet version of culture warfare going on, with many sites rejecting federation with other sites, not because of their content, but because they don't like the software being used FFS!(*) Bluesky is overwhelmed with users already because it's still a beta but many people are trying to get on board. Spoutible may be a scam (the "developer" keeps asking for more funding to add extra features but the software seems to be off the shelf PHP with those features already provided). And now we've got Meta's Threads with all the lack of personal data privacy associated anything Zuckerberg does.

        Bring back Usenet!(**)

        (*) Seriously. The argument being basically "this software is used on sites I don't like, therefore I don't like sites using this software".

        (**) Yes, I know it actually never went away.

      2. Red Ted
        FAIL

        Oh the irony

        "Twitter tech lead also decided last week to block all users not signed in to Twitter from viewing any posts whatsoever, inadvertently killing tweet embeds in other apps. This, Musk claimed on Friday, would also be temporary."

        He made the claim in a tweet that, unless you were logged in, you couldn't read!

  8. pluraquanta
    Joke

    Two years from now

    @elonmusk Should I step down as Chief Janitorial Officer of Twitter?

    1. that one in the corner Silver badge

      Re: Two years from now

      Twitter will still need a janitor in two years time?

      Is that optimism or a threat?

      1. Flocke Kroes Silver badge

        Re: Two years from now

        Musk optimised the janitors last year.

  9. An_Old_Dog Silver badge

    Quick Review

    1. Twitter gets its contents at no charge from its posters.

    2. Twitter re-sells that content via advertisement views.

    3. Twitter sells subscriptions.

    4. Twitter fails to honor its financial obligations to other companies.

    5. Twitter (or, at least, Mr. Musk) is unhappy that some other people and companies are obtaining the content which was given gratis to Twitter.

    My empathy for Twitter's "problem" is best expressed in femto-give-a-shits.

    1. Spamfast
      1. Evil Scot

        Re: Quick Review

        I prefer the Victor Ghastly remix.

        But I guess Elon could really use a win today.

  10. DS999 Silver badge
    Mushroom

    He chose the nuclear option

    I said back when he started breaking things that the line in the sand for when Twitter would enter a death spiral would be when it is no longer possible to see tweets without being logged in. As of a couple days ago, that's now the case.

    That means no more ability to click on Twitter content/link on a page and be taken to the full tweet including replies, unless you login. Since most people don't have a Twitter account, and aren't likely to sign up just to view tweets, that makes Twitter less relevant to the world today than it was last week.

    It is also breaking a lot of existing web pages - if you had previously embedded a tweet that contained media like a picture or video that's now gone. A logged in user could click on it to see that, but for most people it will just look like a partially broken link and they'll ignore it. I'm not even sure it is still possible to embed tweets anymore...if it is you'd have to be logged in to do so, which adds another hassle and between that and most of your readership being unable/unwilling to view the full tweet I imagine the number of embedded tweets in newly published pages / newly written posts going forward will take a serious dive. Again making Twitter less relevant.

    I guess there is a reason Bluesky reported record activity this past weekend, and had to suspend new signups to keep from falling over - and that's despite it still being invitation only. Hopefully they can get the resources to go all-in and allow open signups. Twitter's activity will drop off a cliff once Bluesky is fully ready, and Musk will be 100% solely to blame.

    1. Charlie Clark Silver badge

      Re: He chose the nuclear option

      What's this Bluesky of which you speak? Yet another network that will claim to be the people's voice?

      1. Havin_it

        Re: He chose the nuclear option

        Twitter clone owned by the tube who sold Twitter to Elon. I'm told it has even more horrendous privacy and IP-rights terms than the original, and is likely to be infused with Dorsey's obsession with crypto/blockchain bollocks.

        1. Charlie Clark Silver badge
          Thumb Up

          Re: He chose the nuclear option

          Thanks. Wake me if anything actually happens!

  11. Howard Sway Silver badge

    firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives

    Brilliant stuff, Mr CTO, He hasn't realised that a cloud hosted website, where you pay per processor cycle, will actually use more processor cycles determining whether or not someone is logged in or not and serving up 404 page not found responses hundreds of times, than actually just serving up the requested content once.

    But if he's getting miserly with his cloud processor cycles, it must mean that the advertising revenue has gone completely down the pan, because any cloud hosted website usually uses ads to finance that quite easily.

    This is quite beside the fact that a "pay to read" site requires very good content to get people to pay, and shutting people out is going to reduce the amount of content available, further reducing the number of advertising and subscriptions they will get. Call it the twitter death spiral.

    1. Havin_it

      Re: firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives

      Seems the real issue was the "hundreds of times" part, which was just sloppy coding. The webapp could have been patched before the switch was thrown, so it'd stop trying to pull content when it wasn't logged-in. Apparently this didn't occur to anyone (who still worked there).

      1. Arthur the cat Silver badge

        Re: firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives

        The webapp could have been patched before the switch was thrown, so it'd stop trying to pull content when it wasn't logged-in. Apparently this didn't occur to anyone (who still worked there).

        Maybe it did but they have a classical appreciation of hubris.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives

      While I generally agree with your comment, the idea that a pay-to-view site needs to provide high-quality content to attract paying customers is clearly not true. If you want proof, check out the Daily Telegraph, for instance.

  12. Don Jefe

    NYT Bestselling Book Title

    “Blue Bird In the Emerald Mine: It is rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis just to facilitate some AI startup's outrageous valuation."

    The whole quote is going to be the subtitle. That statement is, without a doubt, the most out of touch thing I’ve ever heard a tech leader say.

    1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
      Trollface

      Re: the most out of touch thing I’ve ever heard a tech leader say

      Hang on a bit, Musk will be there all week.

    2. vtcodger Silver badge

      Re: NYT Bestselling Book Title

      Am I the only one wondering what the heck an AI Agent trained on zillions of Twitter posts could possibly be good for?

      1. Felonmarmer

        Re: NYT Bestselling Book Title

        Are you sure that's not what the Musk entity running Twitter actually is right now?

      2. Bebu Silver badge
        Windows

        Re: NYT Bestselling Book Title

        《Am I the only one wondering what the heck an AI Agent trained on zillions of Twitter posts could possibly be good for?》

        Only thing that comes to mind is a replacement bionic brain for Trump or indeed Twitmeister himself.

        I recall an old joke where some codger explaining the name of the then new fangled twitter to another codger - to put it more politely basically he held its was a portmanteau that could be a synomym for the perineum. Quite clearly twitter has now well and truly plummeted up the back passage.

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: NYT Bestselling Book Title

          Quite clearly twitter has now well and truly plummeted up the back passage.

          Wait, is Musk now claiming he can reverse gravity? Generally things do not plummet upwards.

          Asking for a friend :).

          1. vtcodger Silver badge

            Re: NYT Bestselling Book Title

            "is Musk now claiming he can reverse gravity?"

            Claiming he can reverse gravity? That doesn't sound like Elon. Now if he were claiming that SpaceX or Tesla (or the Boring Company for that matter) were working on reversing gravity and confidently expected to release a product in six to nine months ... THAT sounds like Elon.

    3. sabroni Silver badge

      That statement is, without a doubt, the most out of touch thing I’ve ever heard a tech leader say.

      That twat from Reddit will be along in a minute to give him some competition.

  13. Fruit and Nutcase Silver badge
    Coat

    Subscriptions of Blue

    Twitter Blue

    Viagra (Blue pill, as probably advertised on Twitter)

  14. that one in the corner Silver badge

    AI training must be stopped from scraping Twitter - pretty please?

    For all their faults, one thing reported about the LLMs is that they generally output good English: excellent grammar, large vocabulary, correct use of punctuation and they even have a grasp on essay/story/script structure.

    I even have hopes that, seeing a lot of generated text all over the place, the general public will start to pick up these traits.

    Who knows, maybe we will once again have a generation that knows the word "take" exists and serves a purpose, instead of continually replacing it with "bring"!

    Please, please, don't ruin the one decent thing about LLMs by scraping Twitter!

    1. Korev Silver badge
      Joke

      Re: AI training must be stopped from scraping Twitter - pretty please?

      I literally kill people who misuse English...

      1. gerryg

        Re: AI training must be stopped from scraping Twitter - pretty please?

        Unfortunately the OED now equates "literally" to "actually" undermining https://xkcd.com/725/

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: AI training must be stopped from scraping Twitter - pretty please?

        Have fun in the US then.

        /s

  15. Blackjack Silver badge

    Log In only Twitter? Yeah I am sure that will make people give you more money!

  16. Kevin McMurtrie Silver badge
    FAIL

    Hundreds of laid off Marketing staff

    Would they cry or laugh like a maniac when seeing all links redirect to a blank paywall landing page?

    This is how you reduce new customer acquisition to zero. This is how you drive away extremely high-value accounts that were using Twitter for customer service and important public announcements. When there's a list of social media contacts on a website, Twitter will be the one that doesn't work.

    I'll guess laugh like a maniac.

  17. Winkypop Silver badge
    Thumb Up

    No Twitter without an account?

    Best idea yet.

    I look forward to never seeing Tweets again.

  18. Ken Y-N

    Wasn't the Muskrat all about spotting bots while trying to get out of buying Twitter? How come now it looks like that he and his team now cannot spot scrapers and has to rely on draconian rate limiting for everyone? Surely he wouldn't be lying?

    Last night one of the news magazine programs in Japan covered this latest disaster, and random people on the street were saying they were burning their unverified quota in just 10 minutes. Also, most every local and national government department uses Twitter for emergency notifications, etc, and with the country right in the middle of serious flooding and evacuation notices, with Twitter pining for the fjords word may not be getting out properly.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Look

      If a guy can’t make a few bucks from a national disaster, what’s the point to life?

    2. sabroni Silver badge
      Facepalm

      re: most every local and national government department uses Twitter for emergency notifications,

      What the actual fuck?

      1. Ragarath

        Really?

        What they actually mean is that some countries also use it to announce things. Like they do on radio, T.V. newspapers etc.

        I think it's just that they get theirs from only twitter.

  19. Grunchy Silver badge

    I don’t care

    I deleted Twitter back before Musk put the deal together.

    I actually gave up “life online” once already, prior to the era of the World Wide Web.

    I had my own computer, paid for my own telephone line, programmed my own bbs.

    But then the “scene” exploded, there was practically a bbs phone book (just for the local numbers), technology was evolving. But really, I found engagement to be less & less rewarding.

    Then I graduated high school, sold ALL of that stuff, and did not hang around to witness the demise of bbs culture.

    …although I did recognize the worst parts of bbs culture in Twitter.

  20. Lucy in the Sky (with Diamonds)

    Once a year

    About once a year I accidentally sight a twitter post because I mistakenly read a pretend journalist who instead of writing a story, takes a screen grab of a twitter message and uses it as a reference.

    Usually, I am quite good at spotting this, and once I see the by-line of a twitter cut and paste artist, I simply back pedal and read a different story.

    Twitter messages should be limited to verified users only and they should not be able to repost them anywhere else. A nice walled garden for special people. It is okay to be special, as long as it does not hurt others.

    Elon is doing a good thing by destroying this horrible platform, and of all people on earth, he has the means to do it and not care about the costs.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Once a year

      Please don't pretend that that was his original intention.

      1. 43300 Silver badge

        Re: Once a year

        If Twitter tanks, something similar will just step in to fill the void, unfortunately!

  21. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    600 views isn’t as much as you may think. Tap a political tweet, and scroll the replies to see what people are saying… Your daily quota is used up in like 15 minutes, and if you have participated in a thread, you’ll have to wait until the next day to follow up.

    Long story short, Twitter is currently unusable for anything but very light use.

  22. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Twitter

    Has twat itself.

  23. Knightlie

    Listen to the "Flipping the Bird" podcast - Elon musk is a fucking moron.

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