ND Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
561 points by 3cats-in-a-coat 984 days ago | 716 comments on HN ~lite vlite-2.0
Summary ~lite
Twitter imposes temporary rate limits to combat data scraping and system manipulation.
Lite evaluation by llama-4-scout-wai-psq · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available
Longitudinal · 5 evals
+1 0 −1 HN
Audit Trail 10 entries
2026-03-05 14:43 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.440 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-05 14:43 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.44 (Moderate positive)
2026-03-05 14:36 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.000 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-05 14:36 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
2026-03-05 14:32 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.000 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-05 14:32 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: 0.00 (Neutral)
2026-03-04 02:44 eval_success Lite evaluated: Mild negative (-0.21) - -
2026-03-04 02:44 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.21 (Mild negative)
reasoning
Discussion of Twitter's rate limits, data scraping, and system manipulation
2026-03-04 02:41 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.01) - -
2026-03-04 02:41 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.01 (Neutral)
reasoning
Twitter rate limits