Twitter blocks people without accounts from seeing tweets; Musk blames AI startups scraping content

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There’s probably some script call with a note “This call will always return content, so it’s safe to put it in a tight loop with no checking. Some idiot would have to drastically limit user reads on the server for this to fail.”

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As an infrastructure admin who routinely gets the dumbest things dumped on them (troubleshooting obvious client side issues that are fixable with 5 seconds of poking google, for example), I thank you for the compliment.

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Considering the 10 request per second from the ddos, I submit a minor fix.

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