Twitter locked behind login page.
Twitter locked behind login page.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/513993
So today I clicked a twitter link because companies like to use it for official announcements, only to be greeted with a login page. Was annoyed then I remembered nitter exists. It just prompted me to install Privacy Redirect which I should have done ages ago.
Github: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/pmcmeagblkinmogikoikkdjiligflglb/related
Firefox Browser Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/
Looks like twitter waited for the reddit API changes to do push this change to try to do it under the radar.
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Elon posted this on Twitter (quoted from an private blog since I currently have no way to access twitter):
Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users! Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.
Lets hope that they lift this ban soon.
I hope for the opposite, this platform should die IMO
I'm definitely not using this platform anymore, but Twitter being private also locks away a lot of valuable content (including government announcements, as someone mentioned).
Yes, we should move away from the platform and this will definitely help with that.
If the reason for the ban is massive server load due to content scraping for AI models, that could become an issue for the fediverse as well. Our infrastructure is funded by donations and has much less performance and resiliency than big tech companies.
We might reach a point where the negative impacts on the environment caused by AI outweigh the benefits, just like it already happened with blockchains.
If the reason for the ban is massive server load due to content scraping for AI models
He's not genuine whatsoever. I'll believe this was the reason to lock Twitter when I see evidence of it. Remember how he wasn't going to [layoff 75% staff; block payments for utilities / rent; cancel bonuses; etc]? Troll troll troll.
That's not ai's problem but applications/sites problem.
Might get to the point where anti-DDOS measures have to be used against AI scrapers.
It was AI the whole time, plus there is Proof of Stake crypto now.
Governments should just set up a single user ActivityPub instance to broadcast their updates.
Reality: Musk has degraded Twitter's performance to the point they can't handle unauthorized access.
And that, Musky, is why sites generally provide an API and don't lock it behind prohibitive pricing. Because the alternative is to scrape your site, and that's more resource intensive for the site in question.
Obviously they don't mind imo because it also slows them down to some degree and since normal users and uses for it will go down I imagine things will either be wash or still be cheaper for them. Also Elon clearly has ambitions to best others in the AI game - it is just the experts in the field already parted ways w/ his arrogant self.
OT but it amazes me at what point musk sounds like trump when posting lol, he really just is technotrump
Please let #technotrump catch on.
What's sad is that a bunch of people would think of that as high praise - like a superhero name.
Somebody hack twitter and juste turn it in one orange page
... data pillaged ...
Meaning ... people were using your publicly available website?
HUNDREDS
If only there was some sort of reasonably-priced computer-readable service or platform that organisations could use to collect data without degrading the service of users...
Exactly. API users migrated to using scrapers instead of paying what NuTwitter wants for shitty service. Who could have foreseen that?
Pillaged… in Musk speak means a normal day of traffic.
I'd bet $20 that it was actually just their platform just struggling to do normal traffic and elon wants to make it some sort of rallying cry for his sicophants
Both Reddit and Twitter making sure their data won't be used for training chat bots without a hefty price tag