Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Depressed Musk, began to connect with netizens online battle. Take a look at any social networking site and take a glance at be like:

Musk finally killed Twitter!

Front foot Musk set up a new rule: don't log in and don't show it. Twitter in the back foot was destroyed directly, and up to now, some users still can't log on.

So Musk has an emergency speed limit for three times: unauthenticated users can only view 600 posts.

As a result, instead of solving the problem, it directly blew up the majority of users.

Every topic is related to the collapse of Twitter, and its "flat" Mastodon adds more than 26000 accounts a day.

Musk turned a blind eye to it and said in a strange way:

Ironically, browsing restrictions are caused by complaining about browsing restrictions.

Musk blamed all this on the whoring data of AI. In fact, some netizens think this is one of the ways Musk tried to make money after he took over Twitter.

After all, painstaking Musk, who was also recently reported to be suffering from depression, is taking drugs to resist.

"Musk killed Twitter" Twitter users have witnessed this magical scene in the past few hours due to a long interruption of Twitter service:

Access to blog posts is limited depending on the level of users:

Unauthenticated users can only see 600 posts a day; if you have a new account, you can see only 300; and verified new users can see 6000 a day.

(the authentication user may be granted by a Blue subscriber, an organization, or Musk himself.)

Such restrictions have been changed three times in just a few hours. As a result, far from alleviating the server outage, it is estimated that thousands of users have been affected, and up to now there are still users unable to log on.

The number of users who were in use was quickly restricted, and eventually succeeded in infuriating netizens to say bluntly that Musk had killed Twitter.

In response, Musk retweeted his fake tweet: I did this to do good for the world. Get these Twitter addicts out of here.

Musk did not explain much about the reason for the global outage of Twitter.

Some netizens said that this must be directly related to the new rules on Twitter.

The day before, Musk announced temporary restrictions on anonymous access to Twitter: no login, no viewing. And complain by the way that almost all AI companies are crawling data.

So the developers hated to leave, "and drop a grenade".

A mastodon developer found that Twitter itself was conducting a DDoS attack-sending itself 10 requests per second in an attempt to get something that could not be clicked on.

This happens to be due to the stipulation that "if you don't log in, you can only jump to the login page", resulting in a large number of useless requests and overloading the server.

Meanwhile, Twitter's failure reports peaked over the past day.

DownDetector, a website that tracks online service disruptions, said it had recorded more than 7300 problem reports.

Internet addicts have been driven crazy in the past two days, so a number of new drawings have been born.

However, some people doubt that this is Twitter's "self-directed and self-acting": is it short of people or money again?

Coincidentally, Google's cloud service expires on June 30. Netizens think that Musk does not want to pay the bill for Google's server, so he wants to solve it by restricting traffic.

But doubts about this were quickly dispelled. It is reported that Twitter has renewed the server contract.

Other platforms also limit the speed of Twitter chaos, competitors can be "Chinese New year".

The mastodon has previously taken on a large number of Twitter runaway users, and the number of new users has soared in the past two days.

According to netizens' statistics, the number of new users has increased by more than 40,000 in the past day.

As can be seen from the statistical chart, the user growth curve has become steeper after July 1.

A programmer on a similar platform, Bluesky, says he is dealing with the highest traffic in history and is synchronizing updates to App to try to solve the problem.

But the sudden increase in traffic was so fierce that eventually they had to temporarily close the new user registration channel.

As can be seen from the website log, they urgently upgraded the website and expanded the capacity of the server on July 1, but they still failed to withstand it.

Bluesky said that once they have solved the problem, they will immediately open the registration to everyone, welcome to experience.

Coincidentally, it was found that Xiaoza's high-profile Twitter competition Threads was briefly launched on Google Play for a while earlier yesterday.

You know, Musk and Zuckerberg had an online fight, and Threads was the trigger.

Chris Cox, chief product officer of Meta, said at the plenary meeting that what users want is a Twitter-like product that can "sanely run".

Threads allows Instagram users to automatically transfer their followers and user information directly to this new application.

As a result, Big V launched a vote on the Internet to ask whether "Threads can replace Twitter", which attracted Musk's attention. As a result, when they came and went, the two made an appointment to fight on the Internet.

The platform does not want to be whoring data to go back to the nature of the Twitter mess. Musk explained that access should be restricted because he does not want to be whoring data by AI.

At present, this situation is temporary.

On the other hand, the American post bar Reddit, which also does not want to be whoring data, the paid API has come.

This directly led to several very popular third-party Reddit App offline.

For example, Apollo (this APP was mentioned not long ago on Apple's WWDC 2023). Its founder said that if he wanted to continue to run Apollo, he would have to pay an annual fee of $20 million, which far exceeded his income, so he eventually had to shut down APP.

Another App BaconReader also announced that it would go offline.

Some App said that because of the problem of paid API, they will launch a subscription model after that, but will launch it as cheaply as possible.

The founder of the Apollo app says he may not be able to use Reddit after that.

In April this year, Reddit announced that it would charge companies for access to API, and its CEO said:

Reddit's database is really valuable. But we don't want to give this valuable content to big tech companies for free.

The problem is that this policy is almost devastating for third-party applications. As a result, a large number of Reddit users and communities have protested in the past period of time.

Now, Twitter is behind Reddit.

The Verge defines Twitter's current upheaval as one of several ways Musk makes money for Twitter.

In March, for example, Twitter repriced API. There are three packages: free version, basic version and enterprise version. The cost of the basic version is $100 per month, while the enterprise version is estimated to be up to $42000.

Later, a paid authentication service based on Twitter Blue Standard was launched, which led to another war of words with many media platforms.

And brought in a new CEO to focus on the advertising business.

In short, Lao Ma is really working hard for Twitter.

Well, two days before the uproar, Musk was revealed to be taking ketamine.

He himself responded that the small dose was taken to treat his depression.

So the question is, does the old horse who is in trouble on Twitter and slightly depressed still have time to fight a duel with Xiao Zaowan?

Reference link:

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/1/23781198/twitter-daily-reading-limit-elon-musk-verified-paywall

[2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675309846701174786

[3] https://www.dexerto.com/tech/twitter-users-claim-elon-musks-recent-changes-may-be-self-ddosing-the-platform-2196413/

[4] https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/1/23781271/instagram-threads-twitter-leak-android-google-play

[5] https://www.engadget.com/twitter-has-supposedly-started-paying-its-google-cloud-bill-again-213824844.html

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This article comes from the official account of Wechat: quantum bit (ID:QbitAI), author: Yang Jingmingmin

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