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  • L Lost User

    "Only purchased it"? He gives them their marching orders.

    "Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

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    Richard Andrew x64
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    I did not know that the OP was saying that he locked down the website. I thought OP was saying that Musk was responsible for a server error.

    The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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    • S Slacker007

      honey the codewitch wrote:

      Twitter is such a mess.

      Twitter was a mess long before Elon purchased the company. If you want to hate on Elon, just hate on him. Don't hide behind the Twitter talking point that every liberal outlet uses.

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      honey the codewitch
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      I had no reason to point and laugh at Elon until he gave me a reason.

      Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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      • F fgs1963

        How contemptuous. :rolleyes:

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        honey the codewitch
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        I'm sure he'll survive me pointing and laughing at him. If he doesn't want to be laughed at he shouldn't do and say things that evoke laughter at his expense.

        Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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        • H honey the codewitch

          Twitter is such a mess. X| "Rate limit exceeded" Elon Musk is a real brain genius.

          Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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          jmaida
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          Solution. No more twitter. Get out while you can!

          "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

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          • H honey the codewitch

            Twitter is such a mess. X| "Rate limit exceeded" Elon Musk is a real brain genius.

            Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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            megaadam
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            honey the codewitch wrote:

            just bit it

            That must've been a first, right?

            "If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"

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              Solution. No more twitter. Get out while you can!

              "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

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              dandy72
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              jmaida wrote:

              Solution. No more twitter. Get out while you can!

              This is the advice Elon should've followed before taking over.

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              • H honey the codewitch

                Twitter is such a mess. X| "Rate limit exceeded" Elon Musk is a real brain genius.

                Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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                obermd
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                I'm not a twit (twitter user), but this sounds like an attempt to reduce bot activity that went wrong. When Musk bought Twitter the best non-Twitter party line estimates for bot activity were anywhere from 70 to 95% of all tweets. These estimates were made by third party cyber security researchers, both in and out of the US government.

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                  I'm not a twit (twitter user), but this sounds like an attempt to reduce bot activity that went wrong. When Musk bought Twitter the best non-Twitter party line estimates for bot activity were anywhere from 70 to 95% of all tweets. These estimates were made by third party cyber security researchers, both in and out of the US government.

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                  honey the codewitch
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                  A lot of those automated accounts, like those from the National Weather Service, were legitimate information sources. I'm not saying most of them. I wouldn't know, because they didn't account for that when they looked, which is my point. This lockdown does not appear to prevent bots. Its purpose AFAICT was to try to entice people to join twitter. It blew up. Not only did it cause massive outages as they made the dramatic change to the software pretty much over night, but it's questionable whether it will even pay off. A lot of casual twitter viewers I talk to are abandoning twitter altogether because of this. They lurked so they didn't have accounts, and don't want to create them.

                  Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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                  • H honey the codewitch

                    A lot of those automated accounts, like those from the National Weather Service, were legitimate information sources. I'm not saying most of them. I wouldn't know, because they didn't account for that when they looked, which is my point. This lockdown does not appear to prevent bots. Its purpose AFAICT was to try to entice people to join twitter. It blew up. Not only did it cause massive outages as they made the dramatic change to the software pretty much over night, but it's questionable whether it will even pay off. A lot of casual twitter viewers I talk to are abandoning twitter altogether because of this. They lurked so they didn't have accounts, and don't want to create them.

                    Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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                    fgs1963
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                    Wait! So people who didn’t have accounts are “leaving” without creating accounts? The horror! :doh: I think I agree with Slacker.

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                      Wait! So people who didn’t have accounts are “leaving” without creating accounts? The horror! :doh: I think I agree with Slacker.

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                      honey the codewitch
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                      The way it was rolled out is comical. I'm laughing at the piss poor planning and execution of it. And the eventual failure of the decision as he drives traffic away (again) Nobody seems to have a problem crapping on Microsoft here. Elon and Twitter are fair game.

                      Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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                      • H honey the codewitch

                        The way it was rolled out is comical. I'm laughing at the piss poor planning and execution of it. And the eventual failure of the decision as he drives traffic away (again) Nobody seems to have a problem crapping on Microsoft here. Elon and Twitter are fair game.

                        Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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                        fgs1963
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                        Of course Twitter / Musk are fair game. Just like Microsoft. The difference is people here typically crap on Microsoft the corporation not Nadella (CEO) or Vanguard (largest shareholder) because it’s not personal for them. When it is, they don’t hide it. Your problem with Musk is clearly personal. Not sure why you won’t admit it. I fully admit my personal dislike of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg (arrogant, hypocrites who got lucky - not the sage visionaries they claim to be). Embrace your bias… its very freeing! ;P

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                          Of course Twitter / Musk are fair game. Just like Microsoft. The difference is people here typically crap on Microsoft the corporation not Nadella (CEO) or Vanguard (largest shareholder) because it’s not personal for them. When it is, they don’t hide it. Your problem with Musk is clearly personal. Not sure why you won’t admit it. I fully admit my personal dislike of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg (arrogant, hypocrites who got lucky - not the sage visionaries they claim to be). Embrace your bias… its very freeing! ;P

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                          honey the codewitch
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                          It's not personal. He's a public figure, and the reason I bring him up is he keeps making very stupid decisions very publicly. Who was behind the last Microsoft update that blew up the network stack? Do you even know? Was it the CEO's decision to roll out that update without it being ready? Probably not. Elon Musk is not particularly bright. He's particularly rich. There's a difference and people often forget that. I think you think this is a liberal/conservative thing. It's not. It's an "idiotic public figure" thing.

                          Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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                            It's not personal. He's a public figure, and the reason I bring him up is he keeps making very stupid decisions very publicly. Who was behind the last Microsoft update that blew up the network stack? Do you even know? Was it the CEO's decision to roll out that update without it being ready? Probably not. Elon Musk is not particularly bright. He's particularly rich. There's a difference and people often forget that. I think you think this is a liberal/conservative thing. It's not. It's an "idiotic public figure" thing.

                            Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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                            fgs1963
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                            Methinks thou dost protest too much… :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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                              Methinks thou dost protest too much… :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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                              honey the codewitch
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                              Or I'm simply explaining my position and intent because you made up a story about what it was. Could be that.

                              Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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                              • S Slacker007

                                honey the codewitch wrote:

                                Twitter is such a mess.

                                Twitter was a mess long before Elon purchased the company. If you want to hate on Elon, just hate on him. Don't hide behind the Twitter talking point that every liberal outlet uses.

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                                Vikram A Punathambekar
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                                Slacker007 wrote:

                                Twitter was a mess long before Elon purchased the company.

                                But it's undeniably much, much worse now.

                                Cheers, Vikram.

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                                • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                                  Slacker007 wrote:

                                  Twitter was a mess long before Elon purchased the company.

                                  But it's undeniably much, much worse now.

                                  Cheers, Vikram.

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                                  fgs1963
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                                  How? Because it’s not a woke echo chamber? Because the White House, FBI, DOJ and NSA aren’t censoring “certain” accounts? Because there are not thousands of gender studies and DEI graduates roaming the company gyms and coffee bars waiting for their next meeting? What EXACTLY is much, much worse in your opinion?

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                                    Or I'm simply explaining my position and intent because you made up a story about what it was. Could be that.

                                    Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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                                    fgs1963
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                                    Could be. But if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

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                                      Could be. But if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

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                                      honey the codewitch
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                                      Things tend to look like what people want them to look like.

                                      Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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                                      • H honey the codewitch

                                        Twitter is such a mess. X| "Rate limit exceeded" Elon Musk is a real brain genius.

                                        Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch/gfx

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                                        theoldfool
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                                        Well, if it is a mess, just stop paying for it. Never signed up for it myself. I figured twitter was for twits. :)

                                        >64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.

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                                        • T theoldfool

                                          Well, if it is a mess, just stop paying for it. Never signed up for it myself. I figured twitter was for twits. :)

                                          >64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.

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                                          Daniel Pfeffer
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                                          theoldfool wrote:

                                          twitter was for twits.

                                          Amen. The only "social media" that I use are Signal (required for work), and WhatsApp (required to keep up-to-date with the extended family, and a few organizations). Anything else - fuggedaboutit!

                                          Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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