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[–] msage 16 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I usually only read, so youtube is a no-go for me :(

[–] Mikina 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

I also have the same problem, and then figured that hey, I'm sure there's a startup that's using ChatGPT to summarize videos.

Apparently there is, so here you go. Note that I didn't watch it, and the quality seems to be pretty off :D The emojis were in the summary, I can't really tell why - I've literally just taken first google result, installed an extension to throwaway browser, ran it, and will probably never use it again :D.

But, it's kinda funny, trying to parse out what is actually true and what's the model just being derp.

Summary

Twitter has implemented a rate limit and paywall to combat the excessive use of Bots and web scrapers, highlighting the company's financial struggles and potential impact on advertising revenue.

💔 Twitter implemented a rate limit where non-blue check users can only view 600 tweets per day, while paying members can view up to 6,000 tweets. 00:00

💡 Twitter has implemented new features, including a rate limit and a paywall, to combat the excessive use of Bots and web scrapers. 00:18

😞 Twitter went down due to bad JavaScript code that caused a self-inflicted DDOS attack, and web scraping became a big problem after Twitter shut down access to its free API. 00:48

💔 Twitter's rate limit changes have led to the death of third-party apps like Apollo, despite a failed protest, and it's hard to believe that web scraping is the main reason. 01:25

💔 Twitter's refusal to pay bills, including its Google Cloud bill, and its eviction from offices over unpaid rent, highlights the company's financial struggles and potential impact on advertising revenue. 01:49

💰 The Google Cloud contract, worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year, expired on June 30th, and it is speculated that these new features are related to it. 02:13

💡 Twitter implemented a rate limit to manage their infrastructure migration to Raspberry Pi. [What? :D] 02:28

🤔 Elon Musk is supposedly fighting against the CIA and NSA, who are using Twitter for censorship, and there is anticipation for his upcoming battle against Mark Zuckerberg.

Key insights

🌐Being locked into a cloud platform can give the provider significant control and leverage over the user.

[–] van2z 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So which of these is the "sad truth" the title seemed to allude to?

[–] asyncrosaurus 4 points 1 year ago

The sad truth is Twitter actually DDoSing itself.

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