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#Elon #Musk: "Various #government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on #Twitter," including to the users' direct messages.
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WordPress drops Twitter social sharing due to API price hike | Mashable – https://mashable.com/article/wordpress-drops-twitter-jetpack-social-sharing
#Wordpress #Twitter
#Wordpress #Twitter
Mashable
WordPress drops Twitter social sharing due to API price hike
Twitter continues to lose vital support from major companies.
arstechnica@mastodon.social - Twitter users fear new CEO will end #Musk’s commitment to free speech on platform
#Twitter’s next CEO will be former NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/twitter-users-fear-new-ceo-will-end-musks-commitment-to-free-speech-on-platform/
#Twitter’s next CEO will be former NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/twitter-users-fear-new-ceo-will-end-musks-commitment-to-free-speech-on-platform/
Ars Technica
Right-wing Twitter worried Musk’s CEO pick could return Twitter to its roots
Twitter’s next CEO will be former NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino.
New Twitterfiles release highlighting Wayback Machine nepotism in addition to the usual legacy #Twitter #censorship.
https://twitter.com/thackerpd/status/1659162337448697856
Taylor Lorenz
https://twitter.com/thackerpd/status/1659162337448697856
Taylor Lorenz
#Twitter is being rate limited
Elon announced these new limits to Twitter
>To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
>- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
>- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672
Elon announced these new limits to Twitter
>To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
>- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
>- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672
Twitter has supposedly started paying its Google Cloud bill again
The company avoids a potential disaster of its own making.
Twitter has resumed paying its Google Cloud contract, according to Bloomberg. If you missed the initial news of the impending showdown, Platformer reported on June 10th that Twitter had been refusing to pay Google for its cloud services ahead of their contract’s June 30th renewal date. The possibility of losing access to Google’s infrastructure led to a frantic rush at Twitter to migrate as many of its services off of Google’s servers. However, that effort was reportedly “running behind schedule,” opening the door for some of the company’s in-house tools to go offline come the end of the month.
#Twitter
The company avoids a potential disaster of its own making.
Twitter has resumed paying its Google Cloud contract, according to Bloomberg. If you missed the initial news of the impending showdown, Platformer reported on June 10th that Twitter had been refusing to pay Google for its cloud services ahead of their contract’s June 30th renewal date. The possibility of losing access to Google’s infrastructure led to a frantic rush at Twitter to migrate as many of its services off of Google’s servers. However, that effort was reportedly “running behind schedule,” opening the door for some of the company’s in-house tools to go offline come the end of the month.
blacklight@social.platypush.tech - #Twitter going rogue has much deeper implications than the Musk saga with all of its daily bullshit.
Let's not forget that, before the billionaire fascist buffoon took over, Twitter used to be a place where government and scientific entities used to post (and they still post) information that may be crucial for the population. Twitter used to be the primary place for announcements about earthquakes, eruptions, pandemics, tsunamis, weather alerts, shootings etc.
How does that cope with a reality where external APIs are basically shut down, their unofficial frontend API is no longer working either, viewing is only possible through registered accounts, and even those accounts have a cap on the number of posts that they can consume?
How can a service with such heavy constraints around monetization still be considered a viable way of delivering messages that matter for the whole population?
As an example, one of the few Twitter accounts that I still follow (mirrored on the Fedi) is the one of INGV - the Italian Institute for geology and vulcanology.
I've got my good reasons, as I was born in a city (Naples) that may be soon blown up by the eruption of the largest European supervolcano (Campi Flegrei).
As my parents and relatives are now sitting just 1-2 km above several square km of magma, I obviously follow any updates that the INGV Twitter account posts about earthquakes in the area, with an automated system of alerts in place.
How does that cope with a service that lets users see only a few hundreds of tweets per day, and where you need bullshit like being registered, verified etc. to reliably access the content?
Can you imagine a tsunami alert system in Japan that alerts only those who paid for a platinum alert subscription, and only if they haven't already consumed their budget of 5 yearly alerts?
Twitter must be abandoned RIGHT NOW by any institutional accounts that post stuff that can make the difference between life and death of people.
Let's not forget that, before the billionaire fascist buffoon took over, Twitter used to be a place where government and scientific entities used to post (and they still post) information that may be crucial for the population. Twitter used to be the primary place for announcements about earthquakes, eruptions, pandemics, tsunamis, weather alerts, shootings etc.
How does that cope with a reality where external APIs are basically shut down, their unofficial frontend API is no longer working either, viewing is only possible through registered accounts, and even those accounts have a cap on the number of posts that they can consume?
How can a service with such heavy constraints around monetization still be considered a viable way of delivering messages that matter for the whole population?
As an example, one of the few Twitter accounts that I still follow (mirrored on the Fedi) is the one of INGV - the Italian Institute for geology and vulcanology.
I've got my good reasons, as I was born in a city (Naples) that may be soon blown up by the eruption of the largest European supervolcano (Campi Flegrei).
As my parents and relatives are now sitting just 1-2 km above several square km of magma, I obviously follow any updates that the INGV Twitter account posts about earthquakes in the area, with an automated system of alerts in place.
How does that cope with a service that lets users see only a few hundreds of tweets per day, and where you need bullshit like being registered, verified etc. to reliably access the content?
Can you imagine a tsunami alert system in Japan that alerts only those who paid for a platinum alert subscription, and only if they haven't already consumed their budget of 5 yearly alerts?
Twitter must be abandoned RIGHT NOW by any institutional accounts that post stuff that can make the difference between life and death of people.
Squawker (An open-source anonymous Twitter client) fork of Fritter
#FrontEnd #Privacy #Twitter
F-Droid | Github
Features:
- Privacy: No login, no tracking, with all data local
- Feed: View all your subscriptions in a chronological feed
- Subscriptions: Follow and group accounts
- Search: Find users and tweets
- Bookmarks: Save tweets locally and offline
- Trends: See what's trending in the world
- Polls: View results without needing to vote
- Light and Dark themes: Protect your eyes.. And more!#FrontEnd #Privacy #Twitter
F-Droid | Github