It’s possible that the enforcement of a rate limit isn’t because of AI scraping, but rather because they failed to migrate before the June 30th deadline.

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    Image Transcription: News Article Screenshot:


    [A screenshot of a section of an article by the news outlet “Engadget”. Text reads as follows.]

    More platform instability could be in Twitter’s near future. In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company’s Google Cloud servers. [Hyperlink begins] Platformer reports [Hyperlink ends] Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract’s [Highlighted in yellow] June 30th renewal date. [Highlighting ends] Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google’s infrastructure before the contract expires, but the effort is “running behind schedule,” putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company [Hyperlink begins] acquired in 2018 [Hyperlink ends] to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline.


    ^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

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      You’re doing important work! Just wanted to drop a small correction, the news outlet is actually called “engadget” Cheers!

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        Autocorrect I swear to God…

        Sorry about that! I was doing some quickly this morning while on hold calling the doctor’s office so I guess I didn’t proofread it great. Thank you!