Something's totally wrong on Twitter - The service failure after Musk came in

(I’m really so frustrated that I had to write a blog post to vent my experience.)

One day, while I was changing my Display Name, I encountered a 500 Internal Server Error. After searching online, I realized that the situation was more complicated than I initially thought…

Twitter has two types of names: the Handle, which is unique and cannot be duplicated, forming the foundation of the service. However, the Display Name can be duplicated, so there should be no reason for errors to occur…

After investigating online, I found that this issue has been around for a while, but recent methods seem to no longer resolve it.

Link to Community Discussion

Initially, X Staff were confused and thought it was a problem with the Handle name. However, as mentioned earlier, the Display Name is different from the Handle name and does not have to be unique.

In the comments, someone suggested trying an autoclicker to bypass the issue forcefully, but I only received a 429 error ( ；∀；).

I wrote a simple little program that you can try as well:

from time import sleep
from pynput.mouse import Button, Controller

mouse = Controller()
sleep(2)
last_pos = None
count = 0

while True:
    if mouse.position != last_pos:
        print(f"mouse: {mouse.position}, last: {last_pos}")
        break
    if last_pos is None:
        last_pos = mouse.position

    mouse.press(Button.left)
    mouse.release(Button.left)
    sleep(0.005)
    count += 1

print(count)

This is a Limitation That Should Be Communicated to Users

Just like character limits, imagine if one day X removed the interface for character limits from the software, and then users exceeded the limit and received a 500 error. The backlash would be enormous.

This is a feature that should be clearly stated in the software and communicated to users, yet there is no information at all.

Similar issues have occurred before, such as the recent post-loading limit, where users could only load a certain number of posts per day. (It seems that this limit is not as strict now.)

Everyone has tried to contact X, but only received standard responses with no actual contact methods.

Just a few days ago, X Staff closed a forum that had been discussing “non-technical issues” for three years. The methods provided after the closure did not include any way to reach the official team or resolve issues.

This seems to clearly suggest an attempt to cover up the situation.

All these events have occurred since Elon Musk took over Twitter and implemented his policies, and we cannot rule out the influence of internal policies on this incident. Moreover, the official response to this issue has been completely absent from start to finish.

(The incident began in February 2023, while Musk took over in April 2022.)

Honestly, not fixing the problem and not responding positively is one thing… but under Elon Musk’s policies, filling the software with a bunch of Premium ads does not solve the issue at all.

I can only say, do we really need a dictator to manage this platform?