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[–] RubberDucky 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Also could be that they are scaling down systems

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Im just saying, he hasn't been paying bills and it's the first of the month.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah. That feels more likely. Twitter has been running for years and likely isn’t a stranger to something like this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah something I thought since he was "forced" to buy twitter, was he would just burn it to the ground. What does he care?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would that affect these metrics?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Less servers able to serve requests means either get overloaded and have downtime, or rate limit and stay up.

Both are bad, but rate limiting is less bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see, I guess at that scale API requests add up. I suppose it is a solution, and if replies don’t count, the limits are rather reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, exactly.

Also worth mentioning, the scale of Twitter also means that they have contractual obligations when it comes to uptime (for advertisers etc), so downtime could be very costly indeed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's almost as though the mass exodus he bragged about causing has consequences