I wonder if there's anybody left who ever disagrees with him. It's got to be the Emperor's New Clothes every single time.
My wild hunch is that he had a temper tantrum this morning and he said "Let's force everybody to sign in because..." And maybe he continued "I want to stop the scrapping!" Nobody even gently hinted to him that such a move would be beyond moronic. Also - nobody reminded him that he's technically not the CEO anymore.
And now when he sees everything is broken he tweets out that nonsense.
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A less colorful version of my story is he called up the CEO and told her to force everybody to sign in. And then she immediately did as instructed. I actually wonder what she does all day.
Elon also tweeted that the increased twitter data usage was caused by scraping. Bots and programs are using scraping because he restricted the access to the API.
I predicted that this would happen 6 months ago.
https://hexbear.net/comment/3211754
Twitter now needs users to sign in to view tweets | Reuters
Elon tweet...
lol did he realize that charging an obscene price for API access will make people just go through the browser?
I wonder if there's anybody left who ever disagrees with him. It's got to be the Emperor's New Clothes every single time.
My wild hunch is that he had a temper tantrum this morning and he said "Let's force everybody to sign in because..." And maybe he continued "I want to stop the scrapping!" Nobody even gently hinted to him that such a move would be beyond moronic. Also - nobody reminded him that he's technically not the CEO anymore.
And now when he sees everything is broken he tweets out that nonsense.
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A less colorful version of my story is he called up the CEO and told her to force everybody to sign in. And then she immediately did as instructed. I actually wonder what she does all day.
He’s the power behind the throne, like if Dick Cheney and George Bush’s roles were reversed
Elon also tweeted that the increased twitter data usage was caused by scraping. Bots and programs are using scraping because he restricted the access to the API.
I predicted that this would happen 6 months ago.
https://hexbear.net/comment/3211754