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Context is that twitter has imposed rate limits (view max 600 tweets per day for normal users, more for paid, less for new accounts).
They cited scraping as being the reason and said it was degrading their performance, but there are contentions that it's because they aren't paying their cloud bills.
I'd like to see some concrete verification of this, it would be really bad for Musk's credibility if true.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-go...
"More platform instability could be in Twitter's near future. In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company's Google Cloud servers.
Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract's June 30th renewal date.
Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google's infrastructure before the contract expires, but the effort is "running behind schedule," putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company acquired in 2018 to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline."
Many of us privacy freaks were content accessing via Nitter, and had no use for directly connecting our personal machines to the site, nor registering. I am curious if we were considered bots.
Time will tell, but I doubt anyone has the actual explanation for what is going on exactly.
Now next on the agenda is identifying all the bots that circle jerks each other and spreads fake news.