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>>arkadi+(OP)
Can anyone actually provide any proof that this was an intentional/nefarious "throttle" by X.

Using ten domains as an example is not evidence. Did anyone check the millions of sites on the internet?

How do you know there were not lots of sites Elon "likes" that were being throttled?

Did anyone test more than 100 domains?

This could have easily been a bug.

e.g. a bug that was happening temporarily because an in memory cache was breaking for certain indexes.

Oh well, people like casting stones — personally I am going to wait for more of the facts.

(Note: I haven't said whether I like Elon or not)

(Edit: If my post is so disagreeable, I would love if someone could take the time to give me a short reply as to why)

>>thomas+q8
Because that would be impossible to prove, and Twitter’s owner has burned any expectation of good faith by lying, repeatedly, about the smallest issues. He said he wouldn’t ban the ElonJet account, and then he did: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/dec/19/elon-musk/...

He banned journalists who reported on it, banned links to Mastodon, Substack, and Threads, changed the algorithm to boost his own content, slapped a warning label on NPR implying it was government funded and no more independent than the Global Times or Russia Today.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/journalists-who-wrote-ab...

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512113/twitter-blockin...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674427/substack-twitter-...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets...

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twit...

So you could be right and this might be a bug, but your implication that we should give Twitter the benefit of the doubt doesn’t hold up.

>>camjoh+Od
The previous management was hardly better. They banned the New York Post for daring to break the Hunter Biden laptop story.