LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping," this is how you deal with catastrophic loss of system capacity. You limit data scraping by blocking things a human user couldn't do, like access a thousand posts a minute. This is aimed directly at reducing normal activity across the whole system.

I trust you've seen this explanation for why Twitter might suddenly lack system capacity. https://bsky.app/profile/kilgoretrout.bsky.social/post/3jzi52cjdve2a

… which is what you do when you broke shit and don’t know how to fix it.

You're not able to read thousands of posts a minute? Guess I'm just made different.

It’s working. I woke up to reading about rate limits and discovered that wasn’t an issue but I can no longer tweet at all and “likes” on posts disappear. A read only twitter? What is it even good for..

Yeah I mean this explanation is hot gibberish right? His inner circle seems to be swallowing the bot bogeyman story and he’s so insulated he doesn’t see how stupid it sounds

It’s either some sort of temper tantrum or a move designed to reduce cloud costs. Elon’s for sure going to double down on scraping + blaming people training LLMs though

I just want to chime in to note that it is the first of the month. Quite a lot of bills are due on the first.

well said

Yes, this immediately gave me “didn’t pay our AWS bill this month” vibes.