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'Rate limit exceeded;' Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Silverseren@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

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Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site or faced difficulty and delays Saturday.

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[–] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 71 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don’t think it’s planned at that level, it’s just people like Elon think they deserve and earned everything they have; and the alt-right preachers tell them that they have it because god deems you worthy. It becomes a big circlejerk and then hen you have the Elon’s drinking that flavor-aid.

But, and I mean this, before 2000 you could still get the information; you just had to put more effort into obtaining it. That was obviously a barrier too high for many, but it was not unfindable or inaccessible.

[–] ninbreaker@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

It's definitely about the flight tracker subs lol

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Elon buying Twitter was pushed for by Peter Theil, who is a right-wing nut job. He's the new Koch as far as funding right wing causes goes.

Musk was played like a patsy, but has accomplished the goal of turning twitter into a right wing hellscape.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thiel also put money into Reddit and Facebook. Influencing big social media spaces seems to be A Thing That He Does.