Dianne McKenzie

This years tour has over 57,000m of climbing, last years tour had just over 47,000m, this is a huge difference. Is there no ‘standard’ or limits for the amount of climbing across 3400kms that can be set? It seems very unfair and cruel if not. #asksbstdf #couchpeloton

@SBSSportau @LeTour @TeamEmiratesUAE The tiger is Jumbo Visma- Could the Crocodile be Bora? #couchpeloton

Other @letour teams: Taking race radio seriously @TeamEmiratesUAE:🐅🐊🤪 #TDF2023 #sbstdf #couchpeloton

@EricRobinson00 @cmallet @SBSSportau @LeTour It may depend on the town & what they prefer - permanent or not.

@dimac4 @cmallet @SBSSportau @LeTour Yesterday’s finish line looked painted too.

@EricRobinson00 @cmallet @SBSSportau @LeTour They still painted in 2017 when we waited on the finish line in Vittel. It was part of the entertainment in the long hours of securing our spot. #couchpeloton #sbstdf

@cmallet @SBSSportau @LeTour Back when I followed the race 03-06 they used stencils and painted the Skoda logos & finish line, then they had a long blowtorch to dry it. The directeur des arrivees explained to me they have two teams that leapfrog each other to the arrival towns to set up each morning.

@trouverparadise @Paulett68011561 @misteryrobozo @elonmusk Um, yes, he most definitely has autistic traits.

@Paulett68011561 @misteryrobozo @elonmusk I wonder it @elonmusk is autistic. His mannerisms remind me of me a lot. He seems zone-in on strategy and problem solving, with is an autistic person's strength. Remembering to communicate that strategy in lamens terms ....well, isn't, often.

Some people asked me to share what I just shared in a space about the rate limits. I don't work for Twitter but, I do architect IT cloud solutions as my day job. It is temporary. Twitter's rate limiting is not what everyone is thinking it is. It is not to punish non-paying users. "Data scraping" is a big deal. This is where automated systems load the website or app and pull your tweets/data. It's a huge security issue. Automated systems are pulling every tweet/word/user account information to store in an unknown database somewhere else. This could be state actors like China, the US Government, Australia, or other bad political actors like PAC's that are trying to gain access to everyone's information to analyze and use for nefarious things. Manipulating what is said on the site can be done at scale with data scrapping. It could also be used to figure out the identity of Anons or to punish people in their country for what they tweet. Looking at you #Australia and #Canada and #UnitedKingdom The temporary measures of limiting tweets is to protect users just as much as it is to protect the entire Twitter network from going down. They are currently scrambling to get ahead of this and tune their network security to block it from happening again. It's also important to note that twitter has 500,000+ servers. That's not free. In cloud data centers, the companies that use them have to pay for what is called "ingress and egress" of data going "in and out" of the servers. A data scrapping event that is large enough for them to start limiting means that it was a MASSIVE event that could be considered an attack on the site. It would also put massive load on their servers and cost them so much money it could threaten the site's financial ability to keep running. It could be on purpose to put twitter out of business from cost alone. Many people are misunderstanding why @elonmusk wants people to pay for twitter or for the twitter API (a programming interface that can pull data for other sites and apps). The reason he wants people to pay is because if China or porn companies want to create massive bot farms of fake accounts, it is currently free. These bad actors are highly skilled and operate like a business. They have professional staff that continuously change their tactics and Twitter engineers have to fight 24/7 to stay ahead of them. If they have to pay for every account or pay to use the API, it would cost them A LOT of money. This limits the amount of people who could create bots, put automated porn on here, and the hacking/scrapping/DDOS attacks on the site. It protects you. It also guarantees twitter will continue to exist without bloating it with tons of ads. This is all a part of the plan to create a free-speech place we can enjoy without being controlled by outside actors or advertising companies. I know $8 is a lot to some people but, it is for many reasons. None of the reasons are to hurt or punish people. #TwitterDown #TwitterLimits #SolutionsArchitect #CloudSecurity #FreeSpeech

@seanow18 He is going to kill all of it. At the start of the major sporting season he wants to force users to pay for twitter. engadget.com/twitter-puts-s… #couchpeloton

@tucano2 It is intentional - the man is not a genius! engadget.com/twitter-puts-s…

If someone's latest genius plan for this site messes with my #CouchPeloton experience this month, I will be most unimpressed.

#couchpeloton The restrictions on twitter are intentional! One way to kill a social media site & possibly the couch peloton! engadget.com/twitter-puts-s…

@kateykte Murders … intentional for some en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lem%C3%B3…

Murders or radiation poisoning? #CouchPeloton

@robair20 So much murder en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lem%C3%B3…

Passed away? Murdered you mean.#couchpeloton

@bikeymikey70 @bikeymikey70 I think I saw it on an airbnb ad…

@Trish20212 @Marks8790 @gcntweet Exactly. Covid killed Sagan’s legs and lungs.

@Marks8790 Three bouts of Covid had a huge impact! @gcntweet Sagan hasn’t been the same since he first caught Covid?

Is there a list of all the riders who did not finish #ParisRoubaix ?

@TeamTotalEnrg @parisroubaix So sad

❌ Fin de course pour Peter Sagan. #ParisRoubaix

@egirrrlie Hmm - says a lot.

This IS an answer to a question: The bio Bridget McKenzie supplied to #qanda

@iPilko @GongGasGirl Nope - coverage starts on Channel 9 at 3pm. #Wollongong22

@GongGasGirl Nothing on SBS?

Thank goodness for people tweeting about #Wollongong2022, pretty disappointing there's no free to air coverage of these elite women riders ... why is Australian media all about the footy?

@FredVFalcone Pay back for ALL the races on European time we endure late nights for 🤣🤣

Guess I better get some sleep. #uciworldchampionship in Australia is going to mess w/ my sleep patterns this week.

@dodgywordz Yep … the last 2 hours of the elite race. So much for promoting cycling in Australia. This is shameful that channel 9 did this.

@dimac4 Apparently there's final two hrs of men and women road races on FTA, and nothing else

#uciworldchampionship #Nine World cycling champs are in W'gong. I'm in Canberra, and I have to use a VPN to watch it live on BBC. Channel Nine has Aust rights but no coverage. Nice work.

@Oi_the_Lawyer So good!

Chapeau #TobiasFoss 🏆🥇#uciworldchampionship