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

submitted 1 year ago by Silverseren@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

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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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[–] Pluto_Is_A_Planet@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (3 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.

[–] fsniper@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not that interesting. There is an on going AI (llm) craze that requires participants to acquire huge amounts of "clean" data. Reddit and Twitter are platforms that can provide this. So why not cash on it? Also free money is no more so they are all looking to find ways to penny pinch.

[–] eu8@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

That doesn't explain it IMO. That data is already freely available and LLMs don't need the latest data. So data scraping for AI makes up a miniscule amount of API usage.

I think it has more to do with inflation. Investors aren't putting their money into risky tech companies as much, and so these companies (twitter, reddit, etc) have to prove they can be profitable for once, and they probably are going to fail to do this. It does mean we can't have nice things for free anymore like API access.

[–] originalucifer@kbin.social 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.

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think it has to do with OpenAI. They launched the fastest growing app of all time. ChatGPT wouldn’t have been possible without massive amounts of scraping. Reddit and Twitter sees this, and feel like they’re owed a share of their success.

If someone can make a successful product by scraping Reddit and Twitter, they better pay for it. Especially considering each request costs money for Reddit and Twitter.

Just my guess.