Hm.
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You really don’t want to have the javascript on all the clients out of sync with the server code.
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But can you really say that one wouldn’t be doing the world a favor? 
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I got a Bluesky invite today, so
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It didn’t even click that it’s the beginning of the quarter. Non-payment seems pretty darn likely now.
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Finally. This may not be the last nail in Twitter’s coffin, but it’s a welcome step towards the site’s end. I’m surprised Musk didn’t (figuratively) shoot himself in the head this way earlier.
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It might be everything all at once into all the fans.
He’s pushed the code out on to a ledge, handed it an anvil, then maybe the cloud supports were yanked out.
I’m thinking it would be good if it’s gone before the 2024 election really heats up.
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Haven’t twitter not paid some of their servers?
Maybe some of them are requiring twitter to give some guarantees that they will be paid or some upfront payment before providing extra servers.
Does the 4th of July also make a huge uptick in user posts?
I remember that the olympics or football world cup crashed twitter even before musk take over.
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LOL, it’s all coming apart, now. It really makes such a mockery of his “plans” for the site. “I’m going to make Twitter into… [looks around wildly] Youtube. Also with financial transactions. Never mind we can’t even manage posts with 280 characters.”
! If you have an “unverified” account, you get to see 600 posts a day? Might as well just cut off access entirely. Even 6000 is going to get wiped out by one viral tweet. It’s like he’s deliberately trying to wean users off the service (and get advertisers to abandon it as well).
It’s been suggested that dropping API access pushed various bots into scraping instead - so it’s not even necessarily anything new, it’s that Twitter’s changes put more stress on the servers and less resiliency in dealing with it.
And even if this is temporary, he’s more permanently driving away both users and advertisers. This is exactly what you’d do to get people to quit using Twitter if they were addicted.
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Too late. It imploded.
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Pretty sure this is what happened to Twitter today. The Google Cloud contract ended yesterday.
From June:
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Came for this. Wasn’t disappointed. 
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What a colossally stupid decision.
If they make an exception for search engines, everyone will keep scraping them out of the google cache.
If they don’t, no new user will have any reason to create an account there, ever, unless it’s by word of mouth.
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As before, the “rescue attempt” was a farce.
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