I don’t buy the #twitter daily #ratelimit as a measure to fight bots.
It’s like using a bazooka to kill mosquitos.
I believe the real reason is to increase blue Twitter subscribers.
To block unauthenticated HTTP requests, you can use a bot defender that challenges connections if the rate exceeds some threshold. For example with captcha. If challenge fails the IP can be blocked temporarily
To limit authenticated users, minute rate limit is the best solution (Daily is absurd!) However I don’t even get why to block the Twitter app users (easily identifiable). The UI is already preventing massive posts display.
Snowden (npub1sn0…jdv9) jack (npub1sg6…f63m) anything wrong in my assumptions? Always ready to learn.
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2023-07-02 00:41:11
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