Supposedly the bird site's bot detection and anti spam systems were stored... on the Google cloud server Musk decided to stop paying for...
@Render Is that the cause of the rate limiting?
@LiberalLibrarian Might very well be.
@Render thought this guy is supposed to be some sort of genius?
@Render didn't pay rent either
have the same business model - cut costs by stiffing your vendors
@Render aha. Therefore the reason for limiting the rate.
@Render Did they ever pay their rent in San Francisco?
@Render fyi I have nearly eliminated my bot problem... it took diligence and was a pita but I would take each one, block their followers and the report the one that followed. It took about two weeks of doing this and i haven't had any problems since...
@Render That’s kinda the opposite of stable genius.
Wonder how his new nursemaid is enjoying her CEOship? 🤣😂
Unsurprising.
Apparently Twitter (Musk) is also refusing to pay its Amazon Cloud services bill.