I mean that's genuinely possible. When he bought Twitter he gave direct orders to basically not pay any bills or rent. Twitter is being sued by multiple companies over it, as well as various former employees.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
They already lost ~80% of their pre-takeover advertising menu after Elon's initial shenanigans. But yeah, driving users away from your platform is going to kill any advertising business and purely move revenues to subscriptions.
Saw speculation that this is because Twitter has not being paying bills to their cloud company (Google's GCP being one) and they have rate limited Twitter's access to the cloud databases being used which now has been passed on to the users in this rationed manner. Will either be resolved by some negotiation in few days or might just lead to bankruptcy and shutdown of the whole site.
So I signed in for the first time in forever. Scrolled past hundreds and hundreds of tweets. Conclusion: Scrolling past tweets does not count towards your limit. I also clicked on an Elon Tweet with a massive number of replies and scrolled all the way to the end. I can still read tweets.
I wanted to break it. What gives?
Edit: Hooray I hit my limit!
I wanted to break it. What gives?
Edit: Hooray I hit my limit!
I’d love to read this as it looks like an interesting thread but I can’t as I’ve hit my limit.
Errm almost all big companies world wide use Cloud now. Even a company as big as Apple used a different cloud company for a lot of their storage rather than their own infrastructure. All SM companies like Snap, TikTok also use it. Insta uses one by FB. Pretty much Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are the only companies who can afford to manage their own cloud infra without any reliance on 3P ones. OCI too I guess.
Just saw the edit, i thought you’d hacked in to the matrix for a second there.
Is 600 tweets a lot? My usage is limited to what's posted here and on Reddit. Does scrolling through replies count as viewing separate tweets?
Edit: Just saw Ekkie's post.
Edit: Just saw Ekkie's post.
Maintaining your own cloud infrastructure if you have to cater to a worldwide scale of users is actually more expensive when you take into account reliability and maintenance. It is cheaper to just rely on proven solutions like AWS, GCP, Azure. Take Walmart for example who have their own cloud solution via Walmart Labs. But their Indian subsidiary, Flipkart, which has to handle a huge amount of user load on events equivalent to Black friday in India, had to switch to use some storage solutions from GCP since Walmart's own cloud solution was simply unable to maintain the required availability. All big enterprise firms in US who previously relied on on the premises server infra are now moving to cloud for similar reasons.
Could this be the end of Twitter? 
He is cool (although the NVidia CEO Jenson Huang might be the coolest and most down to Earth person CEO I have ever met).
Yeah, this would kill it off surely?
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Yeah, the same way Trump is cool. Low-level stuff.
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Transfer forum is quaking.
Low level??
For me he's the greatest polymath of our time, maybe even the biggest since da Vinci.
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Wow, I never expected to see a post quoting Ines Helene in this manner. I had a friend acting like a true **** believing he was going on a date with her once and that's how I knew of her...damn!
Maybe he thinks that enough people will pay to verify their accounts?
No chance
No chance that he believes it or no chance enough people do it?
Latter. He can definitely believe such a thing
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People who are currently paying for Twitter are mostly doing it for the reach. Even those people will stop paying if there is no one to read their stuff
Fecking Cnut has ruined the whole thing. It will die a death at this rate in no time.
Why does it ask you to ‘wait a few moments and try again’ if the daily limit has already been reached?
Twitter hasn't worked all day for me
According to the few posts I could see. Twitters contract for hosting with Google was due to end 30th June (Yesterday) and Musk was refusing to pay to renew. This was actually flagged as a probable issue a while back it seems.
JaiP on Twitter: "If anyone can see this, this is why Twitter is broken. That twat Musk didn’t pay his bills https://t.co/UjuzjDjhiE" / Twitter
JaiP on Twitter: "If anyone can see this, this is why Twitter is broken. That twat Musk didn’t pay his bills https://t.co/UjuzjDjhiE" / Twitter
The latest excuse to make a full break to BlueSky.
Agreed, my question was really about how delusional he may be.
Any invites ?
Who is she?
With this and reddit, it might give me the push to go full cold turkey with social media.
Like how he rolls back a lot of his stupid decisions, he'll do the same here too but I think the damage may be done by then. We need a strong competitor to step in asap.
Oh yeah, cuz Jack is super awesome and not at all as bad as Elon.
Jack is indeed super awesome compared to Musk. He also doesn’t have much of an active role with BluSky - it’s mainly the developers who run the show.