The IT Nerd

Yesterday I posted a story about Elon Musk limiting how many Tweets that one can see. And He was blaming “Data Scraping And System Manipulation” for this. And I said this at the time:

The first thing that comes to mind is that Twitter’s infrastructure is so fragile that he has no choice but to limit how many Tweets people can read. I say that because this applies to both Twitter Blue subscribers and everyone else. If Elon were simply trying yet another tactic to get you to sign up to Twitter Blue, these limits would likely not exist for Twitter Blue subscribers. 

There seems to be some evidence that support this. Sheldon Chang  on Mastodon, as unlike Twitter Mastodon still works, gave a very detailed analysis of what he is seeing on Twitter that is causing Elon to take this extreme action. The short explanation is that Twitter is doing a denial of service attack on itself.

You can read the analysis here. And I recommend that you do as it’s a very interesting read. But that isn’t the only theory that is floating around. Twitter has not been paying Google for the latter providing Google Cloud services to Twitter. New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has been trying to fix that relationship. But Platformer (paywalled) speculates that time has run out for Twitter. The Google contract expired on June 30th. Twitter’s issues started on July 1st. So if Twitter which is insanely understaffed because of Elon’s job cuts might not have been able to move everything to other services. Thus Twitter has fallen and can’t get up.

Either way, there’s enough evidence that Elon Musk is lying about what is happening with Twitter. And in the process, he’s annoying the hell out of his users. Both paying and free users. Which means that if he wants to make Twitter implode and go from the $44 billion valuation to $0, he is really succeeding in doing so.

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