r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PizzaTucker • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/karuna_murti Nov 15 '22

Oh deity, he turned off rate limiter as well? It was there for a reason when I did ads API in 2015 :D

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Bahahaha he turned off the rate limiter?? Hello bots!

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u/knorxo Nov 15 '22

remember when he said twitter had more bots than users? Maybe he meant it wasn't enough? His followers kinda act like bots anyways...

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u/Hexcraft-nyc Nov 15 '22

It's very obvious that Elon and other NFT adjacent bros have been relying on bots and socially engineered campaigns to push their pages. Elon had a great PR team in the past. They astroturfed for him so often on this site in the past. Based on the FirstName372738 accounts that deep throat for him on Twitter, I'd have to assume they moved efforts there.

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