Twitter and its owner Elon Musk has managed to piss off the entire Twitterverse by limiting how many Tweets that you can read. And the blowback has been epic as a result. I’m guessing that because of that, Twitter released this statement about why it’s doing this:
To ensure the authenticity of our user base we must take extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform. That’s why we temporarily limited usage so we could detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors that are harming the platform. Any advance notice on these actions would have allowed bad actors to alter their behavior to evade detection.
At a high level, we are working to prevent these accounts from 1) scraping people’s public Twitter data to build AI models and 2) manipulating people and conversation on the platform in various ways.
Currently, the restrictions affect a small percentage of people using the platform, and we will provide an update when the work is complete. As it relates to our customers, effects on advertising have been minimal.
While this work will never be done, we’re all deeply committed to making Twitter a better place for everyone.
At times, even for a brief moment, you must slow down to speed up.
We appreciate your patience.
This statement sticks to Elon’s talking points. Which are dubious at best. And it doesn’t give any sort of timeframe as to when things would go back to normal. If they ever do. And Twitter has pulled the “the restrictions affect a small percentage of people” card despite the fact that there’s ample evidence to the contrary. The bottom line is that this debacle has clearly hurt Twitter. Because if that were not the case, I seriously doubt that Twitter would have said anything. The question is if this is a fatal wound to Twitter.
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Twitter Explains Why It’s Limiting The Tweets That You Can See
Twitter and its owner Elon Musk has managed to piss off the entire Twitterverse by limiting how many Tweets that you can read. And the blowback has been epic as a result. I’m guessing that because of that, Twitter released this statement about why it’s doing this:
To ensure the authenticity of our user base we must take extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform. That’s why we temporarily limited usage so we could detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors that are harming the platform. Any advance notice on these actions would have allowed bad actors to alter their behavior to evade detection.
At a high level, we are working to prevent these accounts from 1) scraping people’s public Twitter data to build AI models and 2) manipulating people and conversation on the platform in various ways.
Currently, the restrictions affect a small percentage of people using the platform, and we will provide an update when the work is complete. As it relates to our customers, effects on advertising have been minimal.
While this work will never be done, we’re all deeply committed to making Twitter a better place for everyone.
At times, even for a brief moment, you must slow down to speed up.
We appreciate your patience.
This statement sticks to Elon’s talking points. Which are dubious at best. And it doesn’t give any sort of timeframe as to when things would go back to normal. If they ever do. And Twitter has pulled the “the restrictions affect a small percentage of people” card despite the fact that there’s ample evidence to the contrary. The bottom line is that this debacle has clearly hurt Twitter. Because if that were not the case, I seriously doubt that Twitter would have said anything. The question is if this is a fatal wound to Twitter.
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