Twitter and commenting on The Standard

Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, July 3rd, 2023 - 20 comments
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Yesterday Twitter started limiting the number of tweets people with accounts can read. Once they reach that limit all tweets and twitter functions are blocked (including Direct Messages). This is because Twitter are having some technical problems and need to limit load on the site until that is resolved. It’s meant to be temporary but I’ve not seen a timeframe for restoring full function.

There have been other problems too. A few days ago people started reporting that they couldn’t see any tweets if not logged in or if they didn’t have an account. And long before hitting the tweet limit, people were experiencing intermittent and seemingly random problems with using twitter on Sunday.

This is on top of longer problems with twitter that mean embedded tweets no longer work on The Standard in posts or comments.

What this means for The Standard is that commenters may not be able to see twitter content if there is only a link supplied. This also affects moderation.

In the meantime if you want to reference content on twitter, can you please copy and past all of the text, as well as the direct link as per usual (click on the date/time stamp, then copy the URL from the address bar).

Where it gets tricky is if the tweet also contains images, GIFs, or videos. Twitter images still seem to work on The Standard. To post them in a comment, please follow these instructions for twitter on a browser,

  • click on the image in the tweet
  • open this image in a new tab/window
  • copy the URL from the address bar
  • on The Standard, in the comment box, click on the Image icon
  • paste the URL into the URL box
  • Submit comment

If the image is overlarge, you can do this,

  • click on the Edit button in your comment
  • just before the /> at the end of the code, type: width=”90%”
  • click Update

Feel free to ask questions or add knowledge/updates to what is happening with twitter. I’ll update the post as needed.

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  1. Sabine 1
    3 July 2023 at 8:36 am

    Screenshots also work, if it is just to convey the message of that tweet.

    • weka 1.1
      3 July 2023 at 10:34 am

      good point Sabine, I will add that to the post.

      • weka 1.1.1
        3 July 2023 at 10:46 am

        hmm, doesn’t seem to be anyway to paste a photo in from my phone.

        • Sabine 1.1.1.1
          3 July 2023 at 11:32 am

          You can't copy/paste, you must safe and insert. copy/paste would be a good addition to the menue.

          And fwiw, its not that hard to create a dummy account in order to read tweet.

          The one thing that hopefully gets changed with the min number of tweets per day is that replys to a tweet are not counted unless on reply is clicked on.

          I would guess most people don't even read that many different tweets a day.

          • weka 1.1.1.1.1
            3 July 2023 at 12:53 pm

            Save the screenshot where? How are you uploading?

            • Sabine 1.1.1.1.1.1
              3 July 2023 at 3:09 pm

              i am on desktop only as i have no mobile phone

              • weka …
                3 July 2023 at 3:17 pm

                after you have saved a screenshot to your desktop, how would you upload it to a comment on The Standard?

                • weka …
                  3 July 2023 at 3:19 pm

                  test on laptop

                • roblogic …
                  11 July 2023 at 6:10 pm

                  Personally, I upload stuff to imgur then grab the url to embed the image on TS

                  imgur is a bit tricky & tries to hide the direct url, but a right-click and “inspect element” reveals all

                  • weka …
                    11 July 2023 at 6:46 pm

                    I do that sometimes but use TS backend as the upload server. It's a step too much for most commenters that don't already have an image account somewhere.

                    The loss of twitter functionality is annoying.

  2. Terry 2
    3 July 2023 at 10:16 am

    Twitter be dammed, it’s an abomination to God & man

  3. weka 3
    3 July 2023 at 12:55 pm

    Rumour has it that some of the issues have been resolved. Can you please tell me if you cat see this tweet and the quote tweet, and if you are logged in or not?

    https://twitter.com/mocha_soul/status/1675660395783110657

  4. weka 4
    3 July 2023 at 12:59 pm

    What's Happening?

    Twitter's hosting contract with Google

    Cloud expired on June 30th.

    Word is that Elon has been trying to move everything off so he doesn't have to pay the reported $1 BILLION bill.

    Either he's done nothing, or that migration hasn't been completed yet.

    Google Cloud, out of contract, has potentially rate limited Twitter's data.

    With tremendous foresight, Elon blocked access to non-accounts YESTERDAY in an attempt to mitigate the damage or negotiate lesser usage fees.

    Instead, this caused the embedded tweets in every website to fail to load and instead retry again, and again, and again… resulting in a self-inflicted denial of service event from everywhere.

    v

    Elon is now imposing "temporary" view limits in an attempt to keep the site up at all, until the migration is complete, reengineers the embedded reloads, or pays his Google Cloud bill.

    Now he's decided to use the situation to try and sell subscriptions.

    • Elon is both a technelogy and business

    that last line is crossed out in the text.

    https://twitter.com/cindybax/status/1675668618812719104

  5. roblogic 5
    10 July 2023 at 5:39 pm

    the rate limit was defeated by a programmer with an anime profile picture

    https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1675598137291857921?s=20

  6. roblogic 6
    11 July 2023 at 6:00 pm

    Here's a reasonable way to embed (text-only) tweets into TS comments:

    1. Write a brief comment in the TS comment box, and save
    2. Click to Edit your comment – this allows you to paste raw HTML
    3. Go to the tweet you want to copy
    4. Click the 3 dots (…) on the upper right of the tweet
    5. Choose "</> Embed Tweet"
    6. A new window opens, click "Copy Code"
    7. Go back to your TS comment and Paste the code
    8. Remove the >script< crud at the end – TS does not support javascript and it will block you!
    9. The tweet should now be embedded in your TS comment heart

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