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chuwenjie:

While working on Across the Spiderverse, I painted this concept art of what Manhattan might look like in Gwen’s watercolor style!

lastoneout:

friendly reminder for the new twitter refugees:

• change your icon/pfp and put something coherent in your blog description or you’re going to get blocked bcs people think you’re a bot
• this site is built around reblogs, so please actually reblog posts(especially art and fics!!)
• you can set your likes and follows to private
• checkmarks here are a meme and mean nothing
• follower counts are private and we like it that way, so get used to not judging people by that metric
• drama and discourse is boring, use your blacklist and block button liberally
• DON’T CENSOR YOURSELF!! we can swear and say kill and make fun of corporations all we want, and if you tiktok-ify your tags people who have things blacklisted for whatever reason will still see them, and people who want to see that content won’t be able to find it!! spell words out normally, you won’t get in trouble!!
• tumblr live is sketchy as hell and full of fake accounts, if you decide to use it anyway may god have mercy on your soul o7
• be nice to the reddit refugees, they’re our friends <3

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

you’re laughing. elon musk essentially told everybody to go outside and touch grass by ACCIDENT bc he’s limiting how many tweets you can READ bc he won’t pay his bills and you’re LAUGHING

Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills, Platformer reports

Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract comes up for renewal this month, which could result in the social media co

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glitch-coyote:

kinklock:

the grip tumblr has on society while being universally believed to be dead

mollymendoza:

LAST DANCE // Molly Mendoza

Available as a print at Gallery Nucleus Portland starting July 3rd 2023

quadsuki:

webbed site tbh

annadante-2:

pandabibble:

already changed baby!!! this guy is a true visionary sarcasm obviously

prokopetz:

taavicleric:

prokopetz:

bluedogxl:

prokopetz:

The really hilariously ill-conceived part of the Twitter rate limiting thing is that comments and retweets are the same kind of entity as tweets in the back-end database, they’re just “parented” to whatever tweet they’re commenting on or retweeting, and the rate limit they’ve placed on the API simply counts how many of those entities you’ve requested without checking a. whether they’re the children of another entity or not, nor b. whether you’ve already seen that particular entity today.

Thus, the limit isn’t really “600 tweets”. A tweet, each comment on that tweet, and each retweet of that tweet all count against the limit as you view them. For example, if a quote-retweet crosses your dashboard, the quote-retweet itself and the little preview of what it’s responding to that appears above it each count separately against the limit. Click into that quote-retweet to read the comments? They both get counted against your limit a second time, as does each individual comment you read – and heaven help you if any of those comments were themselves commented upon!

The upshot is that if your account isn’t verified, using Twitter in the manner that its own monetisation model assumes – and, indeed demands – it will be used can easily exhaust your entire daily allocation of tweet views in as little as a couple dozen engagements.

so that’s why i ran out in like two hours

If anything, two hours reflects a very restrained usage pattern. Owing to the way that tweet views are counted, somebody who’s using the site the way its user experience “wants” it to be used might readily burn through their daily 600 views in five to ten minutes!

Wait, wait, wait, so, Twitter now works like those mobile games that give you free “lives” and once you’re out, sorry! Wait til tomorrow… or pay!

It’s a bit worse than that, because the verified limit is only 6000 views, and there’s presently no way to increase it beyond that. That might feel like a big number, but for the reasons outlined above, even a paying user with an ideal usage pattern will be able to use site for perhaps 60 minutes a day before they get put on hold, too.

owldee:

i mean the sad thing is elon will kill twitter and it didn’t even take a whole year and he won’t even care about all the money he’s literally flushed down the drain because he’s mega rich and it’s probably just a drop in the bucket to him. billionaires are a literal disease

akfamilyhome:

Twitter really said “you’ve read 300 posts time to go touch grass”

norelationtodonkeykong:

himboprince:

norelationtodonkeykong:

norelationtodonkeykong:

if you haven’t kept track of what’s happened with twitter, elon fucked the servers so you can only read 600 posts. scrolled and posted for 5 minutes and im locked out. this rules lol

the kingdom of saudi arabia sovreign wealth fund invested billions of dollars in helping elon buy twitter because the crown prince of saudi arabia is a moron. if elon ever visits the middle east they’re gonna grind him into hamburger

elon was lyin about the 600 posts thing btw heres the real issue

Of course its elon refusing to pay twitter’s bills. Genuis move from the brain haver

shepardlives:

Once again tumblr stands above the rest of the websites by purely functioning