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The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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um, no?
Twitter has supposedly started paying its Google Cloud bill again | Engadget
Twitter has resumed paying its Google Cloud contract after newly appointed CEO Linda Yaccarino reportedly stepped in to patch up the relationship between the two companies..
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PR is PR but in this case I think he is doing more harm than anything - quite a few people who maintain resources on Twitter are going "**** it, it isn't worth the hassle" right now and will likely leave. And those are the kind of people who bring numbers to Twitter.
Additionally Twitter, even if not intended or wanted by Twitter, has become a place for a lot of emergency alert and similar for example earthquakes and air raids in Ukraine - which is both well known and known that for security, practicality and other reasons people may not be able to login - while there could be special provision for that down the line it certainly isn't in place now so this PR would be Elon putting money over lives.
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And, I should add, there's just as little to support social media being 'bad' for the world @Colonel_Klinck
You think its been good? People glued to their phones, not having conversations, becoming obsessed with likes and depressed if they don't get them. Anti science being spread, where once people who believed in things such as 5G giving you cancer would be a tiny almost invisible minority, they are now front and centre with millions of followers and all they have to do is shout the loudest and they gain followers. I think you could argue that societies losing faith in the democratic process has grown due to social media and how easily the masses are manipulated by bad actors on it.
I don't see any of those things above being good for society/the world. Yes some good things have come from it but imo they are far outweighed by the bad.
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What's your experience been like lately?
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I'm a active unpaid account. I've used up my limit, so i can't see anything.
It's a minor inconvenience atm, i can handle a week without twitter, but if it's like this for a couple of weeks or more it's going to be very very annoying.
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So it's AI that is overloading the servers. Sigh
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I don't use a Twitter so not sure of what happens next but if it doesn't resolve to your satisfaction what would you do? Apart from being very, very annoyed.
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The rate limits have been going up steadily every few hours now, almost as if temporary meant… temporary.
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Probably pay. (but even the paid account with that limit is not enough)
I use Twitter for work more than i use Netflix. So it probably is a bit daft i pay for that but not Twitter. It's just i'm used to Twitter being free.
I don't think it'll come to that though, it makes sense what he's saying about AI,.
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You use Twitter for work? Genuine question - how does that work? (for reference I am Generation X)
A side note is that free > commercial payment is not unusual. Do not take for free that which you would not pay for.
A side note is that free > commercial payment is not unusual. Do not take for free that which you would not pay for.
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FinTwit aka....Financial Twitter. People at the top of the game talking about everything macro.
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Ok. What does that mean? 'top of the game' and 'everything macro'?
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Exactly what it says on the tin. People who are extremely well respected talking about their ideas. It's like being in a lecture room listening to your tutor.
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If you believe what he says
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It makes sense considering we are in a AI bubble
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Well that is if you believe a professional liar. There is talk they are switching hosts and that seems like a far more likely cause for them throttling users.
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. The onlyy thing that makes me doubt it's entirely due to ai, is because if that's true, it can wait 4/5 days. There's no way this was destroying twitter and making it unusable, like the current method has for some.
It surely could have waited a few more days, given more time for a better solution too.
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