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Pouring One Out For Twitter

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Is/Was @stormscourge over on Twitter, so if you see me follow you, that's why. Fandom Crone of many curiosities, right now mostly Persona 5. Catch me @chucklingchemist on AO3 and wherever the wind takes me elsewise

i fucking lost it when she opened the fridge

A big mood

I missed this video

Keeyum.

Anybody else start getting just as mad as her when she’s reading the inane fucking incomprehensible texts. DO YOU WANT THE CAKE OR NOT GINGER

WHERE IS HER OSCAR

I need her to make me a cheesecake 😭😭😭

I love the “Mom is single but she’s sadly not gay”

Seein' too many Twitter refugees asking if they'll get in trouble for saying "kill yourself" to people and while no, you're not gonna get nuked from orbit, that is maybe something you just shouldn't be doing in general perhaps?? Maybe telling people to kill themselves is bad actually?? Some of y'all are wild, why is the first thing you can think to ask on a new platform if you can send one of the worst kinds of harassment to people?? Grow tf up and learn how to use the block button. It'll do wonders for your mood, trust me.

"It's a joke!"

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The really hilariously ill-conceived part of the Twitter rate limiting thing is that comments and retweets are the same kind of entity as tweets in the back-end database, they're just "parented" to whatever tweet they're commenting on or retweeting, and the rate limit they've placed on the API simply counts how many of those entities you've requested without checking a. whether they're the children of another entity or not, nor b. whether you've already seen that particular entity today.

Thus, the limit isn't really "600 tweets". A tweet, each comment on that tweet, and each retweet of that tweet all count against the limit as you view them. For example, if a quote-retweet crosses your dashboard, the quote-retweet itself and the little preview of what it's responding to that appears above it each count separately against the limit. Click into that quote-retweet to read the comments? They both get counted against your limit a second time, as does each individual comment you read – and heaven help you if any of those comments were themselves commented upon!

The upshot is that if your account isn't verified, using Twitter in the manner that its own monetisation model assumes – and, indeed demands – it will be used can easily exhaust your entire daily allocation of tweet views in as little as a couple dozen engagements.

Well, guess it’s time for Twitter refugees part 2.

Wild social media business strat though: I am going to limit the amount of content users can see on a website that makes money by trying to keep users on it as much as possible. This is a good business plan.

Update: I logged onto Twitter when I heard this news and was on for 8 minutes exactly when it hit this.

So you can hit the limit in under 10 minutes. For a social media site, a terrible business strat. Great mental health tool however.

I’m laughing so hard, this is like if Vegas said you could only play slots three times a day as their new business model. And then, unless you paid them 8 bucks, you’d have to wait a day: if you paid them 8 bucks, you can play slots for just under an hour before you go home, except 10% of those slots are just ads for the casino.

Business boy strikes again.

Well, guess it’s time for Twitter refugees part 2.

Wild social media business strat though: I am going to limit the amount of content users can see on a website that makes money by trying to keep users on it as much as possible. This is a good business plan.

Update: I logged onto Twitter when I heard this news and was on for 8 minutes exactly when it hit this.

So you can hit the limit in under 10 minutes. For a social media site, a terrible business strat. Great mental health tool however.

I’m laughing so hard, this is like if Vegas said you could only play slots three times a day as their new business model. And then, unless you paid them 8 bucks, you’d have to wait a day: if you paid them 8 bucks, you can play slots for just under an hour before you go home, except 10% of those slots are just ads for the casino.

Business boy strikes again.

something im noticing is the redditors are just commenting on everything via reblogs with reckless abandon. and its so funny bc thats how youre MEANT to use this fucking website but we've trained ourselves out of it somehow.

I feel like a fucking chimp raised in a lab let out into the wild and just doing shit without understanding wtf is going on because I was raised to click the button to get cookie

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look, that one's trying to upvote