Jay Peters / The Verge: Bluesky says it is “temporarily” pausing new sign-ups to resolve performance issues caused by “record high-traffic” — / ‘We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme
Poynter: Q&A with Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, on the whirlwind first two weeks under Elon Musk, Twitter’s content moderation approach, and more — Yoel Roth explains how moderation rules evolved at Twitter, the fight against harassment and why he no longer drives a Tesla Lees verder op Tech Meme
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Elon Musk says verified Twitter accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6K posts/day, unverified 600, and new unverified 300, due to “extreme” data scraping — Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Elon Musk / @elonmusk: To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: – Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day – Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day – New unverified accounts to 300/day Lees verder op Tech Meme
Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Musk says verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6000 posts/day, unverified to 600, and new unverified to 300, to address “extreme” data scraping — To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: – Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day – Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day – New unverified accounts to 300/day Lees verder op Tech Meme
Caroline O’Donovan / Washington Post: Former Amazon and Goodreads employees detail how Amazon let the book review site languish with limited resources while mining it for user-generated data — A prominent author’s decision to pull her new novel from publication after being ‘review bombed’ highlights Goodreads’s power in publishing … Lees verder op Tech Meme
The Indian Express: Twitter users globally report multiple site issues, including seeing “rate limit exceeded” or “cannot retrieve tweets” error messages — Twitter is yet to acknowledge the outage. — x — 1x 1.5x 1.8x — Twitter has been hit by a global outage … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Matt Binder / Mashable: Elon Musk claims Twitter login requirement is a “temporary emergency measure” as “several hundred” orgs were “scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively” — Twitter is currently blocking visitors from viewing tweets and profiles unless they are logged in. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Tracxn: Indian startups raised $5.46B in H1 2023, down from $17.1B in H1 2022 and $13.4B in H1 2021; Tiger Global made just one deal while SoftBank made none — Several high-flying Indian startups, including Byju’s, Swiggy and PharmEasy, have experienced a dramatic downward adjustment in their valuations Lees verder op Tech Meme
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Generative AI can make experienced programmers more productive, potentially eliminating tasks done by junior developers as companies use the tech to save money — Artificial-intelligence software is eating the software industry, as companies turn to generative AI tools to save money on programmers. Lees verder op Tech Meme