I had to look this up, couldn’t believe it. I’ve been pretty indifferent to Musk and Twitter…cause I’ve been always indifferent to Twitter, but this is crazy. As an example, my city’s police and bus services and others all use Twitter to send updates out. And I’m sure it’s the same for most places. And now they’ve essentially lost the ability to mass communicate with people, because they need to be able to reach everyone not just those with an account.
The 429 error message would not clear from my screen; I had to reset my phone. I’m pretty sure that’s first bug I ever encountered with RiF, and I used it for about a decade.
@talklittle thank you for all those years of an amazing app.
I thought Reddit and Twitter were pretty clearly responses to the massive data grab by OpenAI that let them train their language models.
I assume there are other factors involved too, like Reddit trying to force everyone to use its app. But I don’t think it’s coincidence this happened not long after ChatGPT took off.
… Though now that you mention it, I wonder if there’s a connection between Netflix stamping out password sharing and Youtube getting serious about ads.
It’s a little disgusting, but completely in character, for Reddit to leech off those apps for over a decade and then stab them in the back.
And by leech, I mean I question whether Reddit would have grown as much as it did without the 3rd-party apps. Hardly anyone uses Reddit desktop.
… it’s probably a good thing that I don’t have Reddit on my phone now, to be honest, just wish it hadn’t happened this way.
Yeah I don’t understand it.
I’m sure something else will come along, the public service sphere of Twitter is too important. What else can they do? Go back to sending out press statements and breaking news on the radio or TV? Something will come along and fill that gap.