Quoting @foo@fosstodon.org: https://fosstodon.org/@foo/110640518295563046 #retoot

Post by Ryan Finnie. "I managed to lock myself out out of my Twitter account within 3 minutes, simply by scrolling." Posted on Jul 1, 2023 at 15:38

Post by Ryan Finnie. “I managed to lock myself out out of my Twitter account within 3 minutes, simply by scrolling.” Posted on Jul 1, 2023 at 15:38

Twitter has been a bit of a disaster today. I think they finally crossed the line to where they’re unable to recover. Heck, we even have Miguel de Icaza mocking the situation today. Quoting @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social: https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/110640558213734258 #retoot

Post by Miguel de Icaza. "Become ungovernable" The post contains an image with the following description: "Screenshot of a tweet saying “this tweet just wasted one of your rate limit slots” followed by the message “rate limit exceeded”" Posted on Jul 1, 2023 at 15:48

Post by Miguel de Icaza. “Become ungovernable” The post contains an image with the following description: “Screenshot of a tweet saying “this tweet just wasted one of your rate limit slots” followed by the message “rate limit exceeded”” Posted on Jul 1, 2023 at 15:48

Then, of course, we find that this rate limit situation is a bit more ridiculous then we thought it might be. Quoting @cspam@mastodon.cloud: https://mastodon.cloud/@cspam/110640655005932828 #retoot

Post by Twitter Death Cult. "just in case anyone was wondering, twitter does indeed count viewing the same tweet multiple times as multiple views. every time you navigate to your feed, even if there's nothing new on it, -20 to your quota. absolutely amazing" Posted on Jul 1, 2023 at 16:13

Post by Twitter Death Cult. “just in case anyone was wondering, twitter does indeed count viewing the same tweet multiple times as multiple views. every time you navigate to your feed, even if there’s nothing new on it, -20 to your quota. absolutely amazing” Posted on Jul 1, 2023 at 16:13

Of course, some people thought instability like this was coming. Quoting @Pwnallthethings@mastodon.social: https://mastodon.social/@Pwnallthethings/110640380771469469 #retoot

Post by Pwnallthethings. "hmm" The post contains an image with no description. Posted on Jul 1, 2023 at 15:03

Post by Pwnallthethings. “hmm” The post contains an image with no description. Posted on Jul 1, 2023 at 15:03

In short, it seems like Twitter is approaching self-destruction. Mr. Musk is currently restricting user access for the supposed reason of fending off “data scraping” to fuel large language model AI systems. The reason I am saying that that is supposed is that a contract with Google also had to be renewed on Friday and it is questionable if Twitter managed to pay its bills on time. Systems that were on Google Cloud Engine may be not functioning correctly and thereby leading to cascading errors that bring us to this point.

This situation did not have to happen…

Update at 2339 local time: Mike Masnick pointed out that apparently the Google Cloud bills are actually being paid. If anything that makes this situation worse. Someone did something really, really stupid in production it seems at Twitter.