This is one of those things that seems too crazy to be true, even for Twitter, until you see it inexplicably take 5 seconds for Chrome to receive 650 bytes of data.
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i glance at it every time there's some big news to see if there are any graphs or blips that are representative of some stuff - whats interesting is if you watch those graphs, you'll get an idea of what happens before the articles about it come out
Love it! Especially looking all the way back to Nov 2022. Latency seems largely unchanged until end of April, when https://twitter.com and https://mobile.twitter.com jump from consistent 300-500ms to much more variable 400-1500ms. (I expect those two are much heavier than the other endpoints.)
UX research on web performance suggests that even a 1 second delay is enough for people to start to context switch, which increases bounce rates and decreases time spent on the linked site. Delays are annoying enough, even subconsciously, to drive people away.
Right. That's what I am talking about. When people face delays for a site loading, they become unlikely to visit the site in the future. He's abusing his power to "train" people to only go to sites he wants them to. The sites he approves of have no delay
Ah I see. TBF, he's driving away the people want to go to those sites in so many other ways, this is just icing on the shit cake. The people that remain through the original filter of fwittery probably won't run into this problem nearly as frequently.
Having experiencing throttling on lots of outgoing Twitter links for almost a decade, I'm glad it's a finally something worth talking about.
Though it's a bit weird they didn't catch it when Threads was being affected early July.
If they had made it a random delay from 4 to 10 seconds it would probably be even more maddening, and people would not have figured out it was intentional so fast. Network admins would be passing their entire network stack through with a fine-tooth comb first to be sure.
I've heard some speculation that he's trying to bankrupt the company in an effort to refinance the debt.
Maybe it's a combination of that, and that he's a fucking moron
He seems to care far more about prioritizing the information & users he likes on his site, than on whether he loses users. He knows he owns a valuable tool of information flow, & seems to be actively gearing it against MSM & towards right-wing propaganda.
There may be something else going on with NYT. I play the Games (including Bee) and for last few days it has frequently said "unable to connect to posts" etc.
I'd been assuming it was $DAYJOB firewall spending time inspecting the https://t.co and then the other links, or https://t.co just being clunky because it has always seemed a bit unreliable, but I guess I haven't been clicking on Fox/NewsMax/Infowars enough and Elon's giving those people more flow and dopamine.
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he's been measuring a slurry of metrics since musk took over..
https://deadbird.singlepane.io/d/0ybkyhO4k/twitter-death-watch-http-latency?orgId=4&refresh=15m
Twitter has the tech to unwrap nested shortened links; I wonder if they're smart enough to use it for this.
I assumed they didn’t have that coded up but if they do, then it would make sense to use it. If they had to implement it for this…lol
Burning everything down while he smiles in a puddles of his own urine is the brand.
UX research on web performance suggests that even a 1 second delay is enough for people to start to context switch, which increases bounce rates and decreases time spent on the linked site. Delays are annoying enough, even subconsciously, to drive people away.
Though it's a bit weird they didn't catch it when Threads was being affected early July.
Maybe it's a combination of that, and that he's a fucking moron
 I’m still heavy on Twitter @KBirkenfeld…