Saturday, July 1, 2023

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 (Poynter)

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



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 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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 …



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 (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)

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



Former Amazon and Goodreads employees detail how Amazon let the book review site languish with limited resources while mining it for user-generated data (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)

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 …



Twitter users globally report multiple site issues including seeing "rate limit exceeded" or "cannot retrieve tweets" error messages (The Indian Express)

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 …



Elon Musk claims Twitter login requirement is a "temporary emergency measure" as "several hundred" orgs were "scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively" (Matt Binder/Mashable)

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.



A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college senior who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched 26,000+ DDoS attacks targeting 8,000+ victims (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal : A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college senior who helped uncover the Kimwolf botne...